I was playing on ACR first mistake. I won some money playing cash so i decided to take out my original deposit and leave my winning there. WOW cost to withdraw $65 lowest and that is for a check. won't play there anymore. I also was tired of the software there too. I would get a set and they would always have a bigger set and the players just sometime couldn't beat them even thou they sucked and would play bad hands and win. so i went over to pokerstarpa to sign up but someone has my phone number in their account so now i got to wait for pokerstars to email me back. really this is getting to be bs just to play poker online. not liking it
Hi Neo, thank you for posting.
ACR is a bad site through and through. They are unlicensed and unregulated and eventually will disappear with all your money. It's an archaic practice to charge for withdrawals; just another reason not to play on ACR.
With regards to coolers, you need to accept that this happens EVERYWHERE, even live. I recently saw a hand, thankfully I wasn't involved in. 7 handed KK, AK, AA, AK, QJ. The money all went in preflop and the QJ won with a rivered straight, complete madness, but it happened. The thing with online is that you play 4 or 5 times as many hands in an hour that you would live, and that is before you start multi-tabling. If you're playing 4-5 times as many hands, you've got to expect 4-5 as many bad beats and coolers, right?
As for PokerStars, it's not their fault if someone else used your phone number, either deliberately or in error. I get your frustrations, but I would also be pleased to see they are doing their due diligence before allowing you to go ahead and put money on their site. This enhances their reputation in my mind, not diminish it.