I know there are a lot of upset people in this thread and perhaps it may help to understand how banking systems work. FT PS AP UB ect, do not issue withdrawal cheques, they do not wire transfer money into your account or deposit funds back to your CC or moneybooker account. No poker site is a registered bank and ONLY banks are capable of doing any of those transactions. When you deposit funds TO a poker site, the funds do not go to the poker site, they go to a bank account, withdrawals come FROM a bank account. The poker site instructs the bank to make the withdrawal transaction, the poker sites bank then instructs a central processing bank to forward the funds, this process for cheques takes 4 days before the cpu prints the actual cheque. The problems happening with withdrawals are not only with FT but with most sites where the withdrawing player is a US resident. Having closed down internet money transfer companies from operating in the US, I suspect the US Government is now pressuring central banks to verify where the funds have come from before completing the tramsaction. They can use many excuses from doing it to, forget the online gaming bill, the mention of proceeds of crime act and anti-money laundering bill spring to mind as two phrases that will have any bank president shaking in his loafers. Write to all your elected officials, get the dumb law repealed and we can all get back to playing poker. Another thing to remember is that it's the players who tell the law enforcers where to look next. When Netteller shut down in the US, all the forums had threads telling of new methods of withdrawing, the enforcers knew exactly where to go.
In case anyone is wondering, I have no affiliation with any poker site.
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