| This is a discussion on PIC-Club -- does anyone have feedback, thoughts, or experience? within the online poker forums, in the Poker Deposit & Withdrawal Methods section; I'm sort of curious about this PIC Club thing ( www.picclub.com) . I've normally been using my VISA Debit card for deposits and w/drawals going ... |
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| PIC-Club -- does anyone have feedback, thoughts, or experience? I'm sort of curious about this PIC Club thing (www.picclub.com). I've normally been using my VISA Debit card for deposits and w/drawals going directly to my poker checking account, but recently I've run into lots of fees from my bank due to transactions being processed in foreign countries (i.e. China); so far, I was able to get the fees refunded either at the bank or via the poker room, but I'd like to find a better option going forward, so I'm looking at this PIC Club, since it seems to bet supported by a fairly large number of sites, and the fees seem reasonable from what I can tell. However, I would love to hear from anyone who might have some experience and/or feedback about this before I fund my account. Particularly, I curious about the partial sponsorships/stakes that they supposedly offer to winning players. . . . Anything you can contribute will be greatly appreciated!! |
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| I have a reloadable visa through netspend that I have using for about a year now and it works great at most poker sites. I did however join piclub about 2 months ago and I have used them to deposit at Carbon. They offer freerolls for their members so it is worth a shot. |
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| It was very easy to load to PIC and then I deposited at Carbon, again very quick. I have not tried to withdraw yet so unfortunately I can't tell you the experiences with that. But I have alot of online poker friends who have joined PIC and I have not heard anything negative so that's a plus. |
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| re: PIC-Club -- does anyone have feedback, thoughts, or experience? poker I'm bumping this old thread instead of creating another one. But I would also like to know if anyone has used this service to deposit and withdraw. I'm pretty sure it's reputable just by the amount of rooms that support them, but I would rather hear it from you all. |
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| Depending on the sight you haver to put in a request to the poker site cashier, i have deposited and withdrawn from reefer and pitbull. the withdrawlls took less then 4 hours to go from my poker act to my pic club act and then instantly to the next poker room. I love pic club! Quote:
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| So, give me a complete rundown of the idea. From what I gathered... you deposit, say, 50 bucks. They keep a dollar of it in your account and the other $49 dollars you can deposit into a poker site? Is that right? What about withdrawals from poker sites. Do they keep a dollar to put in your account then? Can they send you a check if you please or do you have to have a bank account? Also, let's say I donk it up and decide that I want to quit playing poker and would rather play tiddly winks instead. When I go to cash out, do I get all of those dollars that were invested into the company back? Thanks in advance! |
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| Okay, decided to give it a go, but they don't support UB! So, here's a list of sites that I play on, and if anyone could give me an idea of where I could go to transfer money between these sites it would be great. UB Carbon Full Tilt a little on Poker Stars |
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While I have decided to open a PIC-Club account since I first started this thread, I have not been able to get myself to actually deposit money with them, simply because of the high transaction fees they charge; to me it doesn't make sense to pay 5-7.5% to get money into this "service" when I can deposit directly from my debit card into any major site with no transaction fee whatsoever. Besides, PIC-Club is somewhat limited to smaller sites/networks (i.e. Everleaf) where I usually have trouble finding enough action to multi-table consistently at the limits I want, so the whole thing is sort of pointless to me. . . . Quote:
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| pic club pic club is awesome it allows you to withdraw,tranfer and deposit without some of the hassels you might encounter...they even get check fees waived from some of the gaming sites...the con is that they are still devolping and not all sites use them,i recently think doyles was added i dont have all the sites theyou can use them on but if look they give it out...yes i think pic club is the way to go...hope this helps |
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| PIC-CLUB is a very good option for U.S. players. The only semi-bad thing is the 5%-7% fee on deposits into your PIC-CLUB account. Last month I deposited $100 and my Visa got charged $108.60. But once the money is in there, it is so easy to transfer to a poker site with no charge. Withdrawals from poker sites back to PIC-CLUB are just as easy. Say you want to withdraw $50 from Doyles back to PIC-CLUB, $49 goes into your available account and $1 into what they call a common shares account. The common shares account is still your money, draws interest, and can be accessed once a year. I recommend the check method of withdrawing from PIC-CLUB, which is free, so they say. If you want to withdraw $200, you should get a check for $200. If you go with a wire transfer to your bank, you would only get $155, and, depending on your bank fee for a wire transfer, end up with $135 or so. I did this once through a different ewallet and got charged another $15 fee from a go-between bank that handled the transaction, ending up with $120. I was not a happy camper. This would only make sense if you were cashing out a much larger amount, since the $45 fee and the $20 bank fee are flat rates. Last edited by FEARFACTOR : 3rd March 2009 at 11:01 PM. |
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| Sorry but I just discovered cardschat here recently and saw this old thread. PIC club is great and getting money out of PIC by free check takes 15-20 business days. But if you just signed up for an account it might be longer than that, because they for sure are going to wait till your credit card charge clears and can not be "charged back" before they give you money out. But aside from that it's usually reasonably fast. The 5% fee on money deposited in to PIC, is unfortunate, but PIC only charges what the banks charge them. And I've been with them for over 2 years now, since the beginning. The best thing to do to save the 5% fee, is swing a deal with someone already on PIC that has money and would trade for money on another site, say Full Tilt, that allows player transfers. PIC has easy transfers between members on the PIC side. So if you happen to want to trade for Full Tilt money, or you happen to be in LA or Vegas, I'd be happy to talk to you and work out a trade. Does this site have PM'ing enabled? Guess you can try to get me that way. |
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