UnknownPr0
Rising Star
Silver Level
As a US-based player, getting money onto/off-of a site is probably the single biggest hurdle to playing online poker right now. I haven't deposited in ages (sick brag ), but the last time I did Visa worked just fine. Since then I understand that that can be "iffy" now, at best. I've seen other threads when people have successfully used Western Union and/or the pre-paid Visa cards like you'd buy at a store to use to get money onto a site. There may be other options as well that I am not aware of.
Again, I have no personal experience of using either of these methods so hopefully someone with some more recent depositing success will chime-in here and let us know what is currently working and what is not.
Could be wrong, but I don't believe paypal is an option for US players. @OP, just be aware that WU charges a fee for their service. I'd be sure to check with the site to make sure they accept WU deposits before going that route. Kind-of surprised that someone with more recent depositing experience hasn't offered some advice.
Definitely this. Different issuers will have different results. It's getting harder and harder to deposit as a US player, but for credit cards it's been a problem for years. You have to either be fortunate enough to have an issuer that works, or to find a prepaid card issuer that works (and those are pretty rare these days from what I hear). I was fortunate to have a VISA that worked the last time I attempted a deposit with it, but that was at least a year ago if not more. Things are much tougher these days so don't know if it would still work or not.Paypal is definitely not an option. My visa worked last time I tried it - but don't remember when that was. It could be your specific Visa company.
Definitely this. Different issuers will have different results. It's getting harder and harder to deposit as a US player, but for credit cards it's been a problem for years. You have to either be fortunate enough to have an issuer that works, or to find a prepaid card issuer that works (and those are pretty rare these days from what I hear). I was fortunate to have a VISA that worked the last time I attempted a deposit with it, but that was at least a year ago if not more. Things are much tougher these days so don't know if it would still work or not.
Merge has had issues with credit card deposits lately and are reported to be working on getting it back. As others have mentioned, if you have one of the working issuers it should still work on Lock.
Most sites are moving to WU for deposits and withdrawals. WU withdrawals on Lock are taking 1.5 - 2 weeks right now, I just picked up $1500 this week.
I just signed up for PDC Poker as wwell as Sportsbook Poker and neither site will let me use my Visa. It says I have to sign up for a Click2Pay account, but when I go to their website it says they are not registering new customers. What do I do..?
I would strongly advise against using Click2Pay. I have heard of people doing the same thing, then when they go to make a withdrawal they are informed that because they used Click2Pay to deposit, the withdrawal minimum amount is $2200 dollars.
Intertops poker accepts Visa btw, well it did when I tried.
Yeah I've heard about the withdraw limits but It doesn't matter because Click2Pay is not accepting new members anyways.
Lock accepted my VISA and I had the money in my account instantly.
Withdrawing your money from Lock is a different story altogether. Horrible experience with customer service that was nonexistent for the first week or so.
All Merge sites use the same Merge network poker cashier. A lot of people don't seem to realize this and blame Carbon or BCP or whatever skin for payout issues, when it's not the skin's fault. All the skin can do to help is try to escalate the issue with Merge, but otherwise it's out of their hands.If you're going to play on Revolution network, I would advise you play on Intertops over Lock as their withdrawal minimums are much lower and they have their own cashier. (Intertops is like my 3rd or 4th fav poker site tho, so I'm not trying to heavily endorse it or anything)
For Lock, Carbon, and BCP support you're better off posting in their support threads at forums like 2+2 or DragTheBar, where they have reps who are much better about responding to CS issues. Nathan from BCP, Chris & Ryan from Carbon, and Shane from Lock are on the forums pretty much every day and do a pretty good job considering how much they get slammed over there.