How do u deposit/ withdraw? (US poker players)

Okay I wanna start playing online poker but I'm so lost and have found it quiet hard to find all the information I need so please don't bash me, I'm just asking for help here. I heard online poker was illegal or banned? Then why can people still play?

Second question is how do I deposit into say fulltilt poker? Before I heard E passorte but I recently heard that closed so am I doomed? And once u get money in, what's the best way to withdraw? I only see like 2 options on full tilt what do u use?

Thanks a lot.

in regards to you're 2nd question... w/ full tilt i found it very easy to deposit (debit/credit card, minimum $50 with visa) with pokerstars however i had to buy an AllAccessGiftCard because my debit/credit wouldn't go through... now i know someone can help you with your first question.

First question = it is illegal for a poker site to operate in the U.S. I don't think that it is illegal for us to play (yet).
Second = yes he is right, AllAccess Visa is the easiest, imo.

Okay, but what's the best way to with draw your winnings? No one has answered that yet. D;

AllAccess...

Edit: or a regular check.

Thanks I just found out about rake back on fulltilt, no way I'm playing without it. So I figure I'm going to need to make a new account under my brothers name.

The easiest withdraw method for me was a bank transfer to my checking account.

I withdrawed with a check and im from indiana u.s.a got to me in less then 2 weeks

Uh huh, and is your brother 18? Cause when they send you a check once you withdrawl it'll have his name on it.

This is a really bad idea - it's in direct violation of their terms of use that you agreed to, and they actively look for people who do this. Suck it up and play without the rakeback, or walk away from Full Tilt and never go back.

If they ever catch you with multiple accounts, they are within their rights to seize your account.

Better make sure your bro doesn't already have an account you don't know about, or you risk losing yours - and his account.

Also against the rules to have 2 accounts.

You may also want to consider what would happen if you won a major tourney and got the award to play at say - WSOP. It 'could' happen, and it would NOT be you going to the event. If discovered, you may also have to forfeit the prize package. Wouldn't even qualify for 'bad beat' ...

Also if both accounts have played from the same IP, they will surely catch that, and it will be considered multi-accounting. Better to try to get in on the times when they let existing accounts transfer to a rakeback account.

don't try to understand us poker laws, as none of us do
and don't hate us because we are free

I dont play at full tilt, did for a short time after my old Doyles Room acct was transfered there. I have found their withdraw/deposit to be more restrictive than others. I prefer pokerstars and have found them to be the easiest to deal with.

Good luck trying the brothers acct thing, I did open a separate acct for my wife to play on, but we had to request in advance that we be able to have a second acct at the same ip addy. Also, we cannot play at the same table to avoid appearance of conspiring. I dont even think we could log on from the same ip.

try visa gift cards for deposits, and the only way i know to withdraw is to have them send you a check

If you do this, make sure it is not a green dot visa as they are very hard to deposit with.

guess it depends on what site your playing at.some take debit/credit cards,some decline them.some you have to use the alternate methods,like click 2 pay,echecks,neteller ect.just depends on where you play.

Me and my brother bouth have acounts on fulltilt and we bouth play with the same ip from seprate computers(at the same time most of the time),only think we cant play in the same sng or ring game.

so there's times when they let u sign up for rakeback? How will I know when that time has come around? Thanks a lot.

If you signed up through another referral or affiliate, even if they eventually have a promotion like this (which is rare, since it's not really in the poker room's best interest to do it) you likely won't be eligible.

Rakeback is nice, and it certainly adds to the bottom line, but it's a small portion of the amount that I win every month. I choose to play on sites based on the combination of the right mix of games that I can beat (along with an interface that I like). Rakeback isn't enough to make me play at a site that isn't profitable for me without it, especially if I don't like the layout or game selection.

Pokerstars doesn't offer rakeback, but refusing to play there just because of that would be a bad business decision for me. You may want to step back and try to quantify how important the rakeback is to your overall profitability.

Thanks a lot man, I'm new to online poker and poker in general. What's good about pokerstars? I've never played there I just went on ft cause it seems huge.

I think that Pokerstars is more friendly for someone just starting out. Full Tilt doesn't really have very much selection in the micro buy-in levels. You can certainly play on Full Tilt, it's just harder to find a game that won't have you playing over your bankroll.

FT does have a lot of players, but PS has even more. (Right now FT has 59642 people online, PS has 110680.)

In my opinion, Pokerstars has a better selection of small buy-in tournaments that draw large fields (which means that they pay out more spots, have larger prize pools, and have many more weak players) compared with Full Tilt. I do like Full Tilt's larger guaranteed tournaments ($26 buy-in and up) though.

Both sites have a good selection of ring games for Holdem, but I generally play other games if I want to sit at a ring table. I find that Pokerstars generally has a much better table selection in Stud and Omaha.