If you EVER wanted to put money on your acct at FullTilt, Absolute or Poker.com, there is a great offer on the Green Dot VISA (do NOT get the MasterCard) at Walgreen’s. Normally the CVS activation fee is $9.95 when you first purchase the card. This is what I was charged when I bought mine at CVS. I never bought it at Walgreen’s, but currently, they are charging $14.95 activation this month. HOWEVER almost every month there is a full purchase price rebate for the Green dot activation fee. You get the entire $14.95 back! The form is in the Walgreen's ALL-IN-ONE booklet located next to the sale fliers and/or at the registers
Stars doesn’t accept this card and Epassporte does, BUT it’s quite a hassle to get Epassporte to accept it…and quite time consuming. There are a few very big drawbacks to the Green dot card, but as someone who is VERY PARANOID about giving my SS# to ANYONE, I did it, anyway. They require your real SS#, real name, real address, before they will enable you to use their card. The bank that issues the card is Columbus Bank (either in OH or GA, I don’t recall) but the call center is in India I belong to a service that alerts me if anyone has looked into my credit or if someone has opened an acct in my name or using my SS#, and even after giving them the info, no one has messed with me (so far).
Then, there is the maintenance fee. The Green Dot card charges your acct $5/month for maintenance. So, you think you will ditch the 1st card and they’ll never get the $5/month? WRONG. Why not? They connect you by SS# to any cards under your SS# and they’ll get their money out of you for the months you didn’t pay the fee. Is buying the card and getting the $14.95 activation fee back worth it? Yes, if you can’t get $$ onto poker sites in any other way. No, if you can. How can you get $$ onto Poker Stars without a credit card? You have to use Western Union. How to do this? I assume you already have an acct at Stars, if you’re on this site. You email
WU@pokerstars.com and explain you need a Western Union money transfer/deposit contact name, city and country. They will email you back very quickly. MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THE CLERK. Two different times the clerk wrote the country wrong and the last time, she sent the money in pesos. ALL OF THE WU DEPOSITS MUST BE IN US DOLLARS. And all deposits into WU for
Stars MUST BE MADE IN CASH. The vig for $300 in $28.00. That’s a lot of $$. Before making your 1st WU deposit, log onto their site and sign up for a WU gold card. For every dollar you spend with them, you get points on this Gold card. Depending on how much you spend you can use the points for (whatever) I don’t have too many points.
