US Players....Should 100% give Americas Cardroom a try

Why:

Despite low traffic at the moment for many games, Americas Cardroom is doing the best of ANY other cardroom to say YES to American Players. At a time when Promotions, Cashout Speed, Customer Service, Money Spent on Players, etc is hard to find in any US Cardroom, at least for the moment, the new owners of Americas Cardroom are spending real money, and making real changes at the old DoylesRoom (which frankly was a pretty big all-around mess).

I have been following developments since DoylesRoom was extinguished, and Americas Cardroom has been making all the right moves so far. Now, I am not saying the place is perfect, or even near perfect, and they certainly can make further improvements. But my observations and some play have pushed me to make this recommendation:

Things that Americas Cardroom is doing to attract players:

*The Software seems to work properly without constant freezeups, etc (can play up to 20 tables)

*27% Rakeback (paid direct to players account) You must sign up through Affiliate/Rakeback provider to get the Rakeback, but you do not have to worry about Affiliate going broke or running off not paying Rakeback as it comes direct from Americas Cardroom to your poker account
-Payments Made Once a Week
-Tournaments & SnG Fees; Included in rakeback calculations
-Bonuses are deducted from rake
-Honors old accounts DoylesRoom 33% Rakeback

*Extra Free Money for Poker Points up to $1900 a month - (additional 10% rakeback equivalent) *PLUS, does NOT count against Rakeback

*Starting Nov 29th - They are running a nice looking 6 day, 18 Event MTT series for a small network, with 150K in guaranteed cash and prizes, a $50k GUARANTEED Main Event, a $25k Warm-Up Event on Thanksgiving, Hold’em and Omaha tourneys, and contests that award tourney seats, cash and FPPs

*100% Bonus Deposit up to $1,000 (note that it has no expiration to complete nor gets voided with cash outs)

*Deposits - takes visa debit or credit transactions; Western Union, Moneygram

*Cashouts - Offers Debit Card so you can use ATM to get cash (seems that Checks to American players are by far faster than Cake and Merge though, I would say a bit slower as Bodog and Intertops but by far more reliable than Merge)

*65K Monthly Rakerace - where you compete with an extremely small base of players. If you have the time to play, it would seem easy to rack up cash money. The TOP 13 places all win over $1,000 and 1st place is $10,000. They pay down to 275th place.

*Bad Beat Jackpot - currently almost $194,000

*12 Hours of Freerolls on the hour every Friday

*Player to Player Transfer

*There's a pretty good amount of action on medium and low stakes tables compared to recent DoylesRoom activity (6-10 tables usually). The major tourneys on the weekends can field 400+ players. Most of the tourneys during the day have less than 100 or even 50 players. There's a $25 buy in 4k guaranteed at the end of every day that is pretty decent and normally fields around 200 players.


A good point in my book is they also continued any promotion, rakeback agreement that players had with DoylesRoom, and have been working hard to correct any problems ala bounced Doyles checks.

At least for now, seems like a place for US Players to be excited about, looking to cater to US players, until they get big enough not to care anymore.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I am no Americas Cardroom expert by any means but I will help you if I can

Does anyone know the history of America's Cardroom? I know it's not all positive, at least on the side of affiliates, but I think it'd be good for people to know. All I have is that they started in 01' and then disappeared for a few years and now they are trying to acquire a bunch of skins to re-gain popularity.

So, why exactly did they leave the market when they did?

Also, one thing that is bad for some users, is that they don't have software for Mac users. So, I probably won't play there even though I have a PC, I'd rather play on my Mac.

I feel soo sorry for the American players that there just isn't really a good safe option for online play right now. Hopefully you will get everything worked out after the next election.

i play on americas cardroom i like it...im playing in all of the oss coming up next week im hoping to get a big score in one of em so wish me luck

can you explain in detail how to get the visa debit card?

It is a Mastercard debit card.

when you request a payout, ACR has the funds transferred to your card. You can then use it to make purchases at retail outlets, or withdraw cash at your leisure. It is accepted internationally. The minimum payout you can request to your card is $25 while the maximum payout would be $2,500. However, you should not accumulate more than $10,000 in your card account balance at any one time.

If you are interested, here are the steps you should follow to get one:

1. Fax or scan/photograph your picture ID
2. Fax or scan/photograph your utility bill
3. Fax or scan/photograph completed and signed form attached

Send copies of these 3 items via fax to toll free number 1-888-748-6740 (calling from the US or Canada), or email them to cashouts@americascardroom.eu

It takes approximately 5 business days to process paperwork, then they send you the card.

So far i like the site, I used my Doyle Account have 20c left in it still lol Sad

This is site is definently for low stake players, lowest tables are 5/10c no micro tables at all

( well i consider 1/2 2/4 3/6nl micro )

Nahhh, we are just in transition now. I am certain that individual states will be offering online poker (legally) in 2012. Nevada has the ball rolling now and California is not far behind.