HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#1 January 14th, 2019, 2:43 AM

I just made my account today and seems like they have some good freerolls,
And it plays really nice but i would like to know more about it

If you win from freerolls is it straight cash or do you need to wager it around a few times before it can become a withdraw?

Have you played on it or still play on it and how do you like it?

Do they have a deposit bonus and what kind?

Would you recommend the site to other players aswell?

Like to hear your thoughts about the site.

#2 January 14th, 2019, 3:55 AM

Freerolls are generally and almost always straight cash, so i would asume there its the same, havent heard of the site or played on it, if there are lots of players then it should be safe, i would recommend partypoker honestly, great tournaments, action at all times and decent software, also great bonuses & support.

#3 January 14th, 2019, 4:22 AM

I already play on most of the sites HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

Was just wondering about this one cause some US sites make you play with the money and rake before it's straight cash so thought i would ask here first, even tho i think it's a site from china better safe than sorry, looks like a up and coming site but the freerolls seems to be amazing

Originally Posted by Elty257

Freerolls are generally and almost always straight cash, so i would asume there its the same, havent heard of the site or played on it, if there are lots of players then it should be safe, i would recommend partypoker honestly, great tournaments, action at all times and decent software, also great bonuses & support.

#4 January 14th, 2019, 4:53 AM

slicheri93 (https://www.cardschat.com/members/slicheri93/) , and that the room HighStakes Poker Site, today I turned on the freerolls on the internet and wondered

HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#5 January 14th, 2019, 5:12 AM

Yeah i saw that aswell thats why i joined HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

Originally Posted by AMTTT

slicheri93 (https://www.cardschat.com/members/slicheri93/) , and that the room HighStakes Poker Site, today I turned on the freerolls on the internet and wondered

HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#6 January 20th, 2020, 6:00 PM

Hello. Is this a standalone-site or are they part of a network? I would probably give it a shot if i get more information. Thanks for the answers.

#7 January 22nd, 2020, 6:51 PM

Freerolls on the HS come and go, I play in the summer of 19, a good modern site, a table for 6 players.

#8 January 23rd, 2020, 2:53 AM

Originally Posted by slicheri93

Yeah i saw that aswell thats why i joined HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

Had never heard of this site before. Always nice to gain access to new mines of gold.

Thank you for sharing with us!!! HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#9 January 25th, 2020, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by Evan Jarvis

Had never heard of this site before. Always nice to gain access to new mines of gold.

Thank you for sharing with us!!! HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

I downloaded it but there is only 1 freeroll at 5:00 in the morning. The site seems very dead i saw practically no traffic. Thats sad because the software looked interesting HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#10 January 30th, 2020, 12:50 PM

Same software as SWC poker and BetandBit - just different skin. Freerolls are deceiving - last night played one for $215 - except it only paid out ONE $26 satellite ticket - from what I heard, most are like that. Mine had 95 entrants. Before withdrawing you will need to make a MINIMUM deposit of $50 and verify - will let you know how that goes - just deposited ETH. They take most major crypto.

It seems to be aimed at the European market from what I've seen - timezone wise.

#11 February 11th, 2020, 8:33 AM

Never heard of it. But i am interested in finding more details. You someone have knowledge regarding this, please share with us

#12 February 11th, 2020, 8:53 AM

Originally Posted by DamocValentin

Never heard of it. But i am interested in finding more details. You someone have knowledge regarding this, please share with us

Suggest you wait a while - something odd there. You first have to deposit BEFORE you verify. Now I am trying to verify - took them a week before the ok'd my rates bill, but having issues with my ID not being recognized - they use a program, not a human for this part. Going scan at high rez and try again.

On the fence at the moment. Will see how verifying goes, then of course, withdrawing.

Right, so just took a high res scan of my passport - sent it of, and yes verified

BUT NO - suddenly site say I took too many attempts (last attempt where over a week ago and NO mention was made on how many attempts were allowed. Now it's disabled that part. But is just said I was verified.

Have sent a message to them - but this site it looking dodgier by the second

#13 February 11th, 2020, 12:25 PM

Well, they did answer and said my account was verified - even though it clearly says:: account partially verified.

So hit the withdraw button. keeping in mind that I transfered $50 - I did not win it on freerolls, nether did they match my $50 with another $50 - no intro offer at all.

Now it says : HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

You need to generate €50.00 more Poker Rake to be able to Withdraw.

#14 February 12th, 2020, 11:58 AM

Just had confirmation from highstakes - yes, I have 30 days to generate $50 worth of rake on the $50 I deposited, before being allowed to withdraw.

Can we call it? Can we? YES, SCAM

#15 March 16th, 2020, 9:32 PM

Ehh so it is a scam.. I played a little in this poker room and won some money from freerolls and from few mtts and currently i have something about 400e. Next time i will check reviews about new pr before start playing..

#16 March 17th, 2020, 6:05 AM

Originally Posted by kamciono5

Ehh so it is a scam.. I played a little in this poker room and won some money from freerolls and from few mtts and currently i have something about 400e. Next time i will check reviews about new pr before start playing..

Just double-check. Since my last post, it looks like they MAY have reversed their decision to make you earn rake on money that you have deposited. Not 100% sure - want to get my account to $100 or so before attempting to withdraw my initial $50 - but it looks like they have changed that rule.

#17 April 17th, 2020, 11:41 PM

Thanks for posting up this thread.

I've been contemplating downloading the site and making a deposit but now after reading this thread, I think I will take a pass on it. I just joined (& made deposits) on a couple I wish I hadn't bothered with and don't need another one.

That OPL series is coming up which is what had me thinking of playing on there (hard to pass up on those games but if there's head aches invovled... I say f it)

#18 April 25th, 2020, 6:33 AM

BTW - just an update. I came third in a MTT so thought I might withdraw my original $50 that I deposited. But no, I still need to somehow generate �49 of rake IN THE PREVIOUS THIRTY DAYS - to have the pleasure of getting the $50 (that I deposited!!) money back into my account. Still makes me so angry that I deposited with these guys - normally I am so careful - %$@&*

Should also add, BTW, that not only would it be extremely hard to generate $50 rake on $50, but on the dribble of traffic they have, it pretty much makes the task impossible.

#19 May 12th, 2020, 5:09 PM

Hi, guys

here is my story
Have a following problem at highstakes.com. My account has been frozen after withdrawal request with no reason or explanation given and i get no response from customer service for more than a week. Account is verified and i have played rake required to withdraw.
At that moment i had about 200$ on my account with another 275$ pending for participating at poker league (https://onlinepokerleague.com/leaderboard). My nickname at the website is KatamaranUA and 15th place has been awarded to me and i expected conditioned award. The league manager reported that all payouts were proceeded which can be found in his post at https://onlinepokerleague.com/forum/opl-season-13-thread
Today I write letters to a few gambling commission. Now wait for the answer�

PS: maybe smbdy can provide me any help or advise about this situation and possible resolution on returning my monies.

#20 May 12th, 2020, 5:17 PM

Here the first answer from http://www.gamingcommission.ca/ (c)

Thank you for contacting the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC). I am sorry but http://hightakes.com/ does not hold a KGC Permit. Unfortunately they do not appear to show any recognizable licensing jurisdiction on their website. I am sorry we are not able to assist you further.
Regards
Micki
Dispute Management
Kahnawake Gaming Commission

#21 May 12th, 2020, 5:22 PM

Did not hear about it

#22 May 12th, 2020, 6:05 PM

now they changed the withdrawal requirements. you only have to rake 10$, deposit and verify your account. the support told me so. somebody knows what is the minimum deposit there? site seems a bit dodgy to be honest so i still dont know if im going to deposit.

#23 May 12th, 2020, 7:33 PM

Originally Posted by nairolph87

now they changed the withdrawal requirements. you only have to rake 10$, deposit and verify your account. the support told me so. somebody knows what is the minimum deposit there? site seems a bit dodgy to be honest so i still dont know if im going to deposit.

I dep 20$ from skrill. But I dont recommend doing this =)

#24 May 12th, 2020, 7:45 PM

..here people wrote that they put money on withdraw. But nobody write till now that it was succesfull
https://onlinepokerleague.com/forum/opl-season-13-thread

*my 1st withdraw was rejected after 24 hours. My 2nd request is being processed about 72 hours... and then they blocked my account

#25 June 26th, 2020, 2:01 PM

Any news about highstakes , are they legit ? Who is behind the company ?

#26 June 26th, 2020, 4:03 PM

Originally Posted by KatamaranUA

I dep 20$ from skrill. But I dont recommend doing this =)

hmm I played a few games on there, rolled upto $100+ , I'm yet to make a deposit though, just spending time on other sites, competition seem soft, so good to try perhaps ? I didn't see the skrill deposit section though ??

#27 June 26th, 2020, 7:00 PM

I've checked it out personally, the traffic is a problem but I've been pushing to try their High Stakes Challenge so if I get approved next week I'll find out a lot more about this website including how to quickly punt $1000...well hopefully not but I don't give myself great odds seeing as no one has done it yet.

#28 June 26th, 2020, 7:17 PM

Originally Posted by CRStals

I've checked it out personally, the traffic is a problem but I've been pushing to try their High Stakes Challenge so if I get approved next week I'll find out a lot more about this website including how to quickly punt $1000...well hopefully not but I don't give myself great odds seeing as no one has done it yet.

I received the same invitation myself but I am a bit sceptical about the deal, besides I'm not very active on Twitch .
But good luck with the challenge, if you succeed and can keep the 10k, and even withdraw the money we all know it worked and that the site can be trusted.

#29 June 26th, 2020, 7:35 PM

Originally Posted by balo

I received the same invitation myself but I am a bit sceptical about the deal, besides I'm not very active on Twitch .
But good luck with the challenge, if you succeed and can keep the 10k, and even withdraw the money we all know it worked and that the site can be trusted.

I've applied and bugged them daily but they haven't let me in yet & next week is the last group to be admitted so we'll see is persistence pays off

#30 June 26th, 2020, 7:38 PM

have alot of freeroll all day HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#31 June 26th, 2020, 7:43 PM

I didn't notice they run freerolls.
Thanks for sharing!

That said, the thing I know is they have strong relations with Luke Schwartz.

#32 June 28th, 2020, 2:54 PM

Originally Posted by ninjareal

I didn't see the skrill deposit section though ??

I don`t know about now. I can`t login to HS for 2 month =) support and game comission ignore my emails

but in april 2020 it was possible

#33 June 28th, 2020, 6:34 PM

Seriously? There is no point playing at a site that does not let you withdraw. Unless you just like wasting your time.

If your country is blocked from certain sites try coinpoker and SWC - both easy to withdraw from.

#34 June 28th, 2020, 6:40 PM

For instance, if ou wina freeroll on Intertops you have to have made a deposit before your win is acredited. On Other sites,like pokerstars,if you win a freeroll it is available for play and withdrawal.

#35 June 29th, 2020, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by CRStals

I've applied and bugged them daily but they haven't let me in yet & next week is the last group to be admitted so we'll see is persistence pays off

So I got accepted into the High Stakes Challenge today, personally this should be a fun punt of 1000 Euros but hey you never know right?

#36 July 1st, 2020, 5:04 PM

today post at https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/highstakes-poker-terrible-customer-support-1752669/#post56284640
(c)

Well, i play on HS by something like 2 years, and before the new software implementation, on last december/january i had no problems.

After that, i'm having many problems to withdraw, declined requests without any explanation, sometimes they said that had no funds on determinated e-wallet and on april they declined 2 withdraw requests and when i tried to make another request the site ask me to generate 100€ in rake... I had not made any recent deposit.

So, i raked the 100€ and this week made a new withdraw request, again declined...

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#37 July 1st, 2020, 6:52 PM

Not a good sign is it?

#38 July 7th, 2020, 7:42 PM

The site is now down and gone. You can fill out a formular on their website for cashing out your funds. I just did it and i am wondering if it actually works. I had a lot of daily dollar tickets which are now lost i guess HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

#39 July 8th, 2020, 1:46 PM

Originally Posted by nairolph87

The site is now down and gone. You can fill out a formular on their website for cashing out your funds. I just did it and i am wondering if it actually works. I had a lot of daily dollar tickets which are now lost i guess HighStakes Poker Site Your thoughts?

I saw this last night when I went on to try and keep going with my challenge - nothing in the client itself saying that the site was closed, only that login was through the website which leads you to the form.

Frankly I'm not surprised - they have such little traffic and a good chunk of what they did have was due to the challenge. I do hope you are able to get your money though.

#40 July 8th, 2020, 2:48 PM

thanks for that, I have just completed my cashout form

#41 July 8th, 2020, 10:31 PM

LOL and they wanted to give you $1000 for a challenge. I'm happy I did not waste a minute on that site.

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