WEC
Legend
Silver Level
Have you been reading all the problems over there? It is the best Revolution skin to avoid.
If I had any kind of money on Lock I would be getting it off as fast as possible.
JoeShowdown
Legend
Silver Level
What is Juicy Stakes? Is it possible to play on it from USA?
Cake not being around sounds good to me because you can't withdraw less than $500 and it took like 5 months to get the check when I withdrew earlier this year. I'll miss raketherake rakeback on cake, but maybe that will transfer to my Juicy account.
Ironic that I played the most I ever played on cake last night - 3 private tourneys were going on all at once. Then today, I find that cake won't be around.
Cake not being around sounds good to me because you can't withdraw less than $500 and it took like 5 months to get the check when I withdrew earlier this year. I'll miss raketherake rakeback on cake, but maybe that will transfer to my Juicy account.
Ironic that I played the most I ever played on cake last night - 3 private tourneys were going on all at once. Then today, I find that cake won't be around.
solid4
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Wow!! Being in Las Vegas Navada I can get my poker fix anywhere...but I like playing in the comfort of my home. I can see more hands in a day online then I can all week at casino plus online poker keeps me sharp for live play.To bad there closing another site... ..........USA home of the Almost Free
dmorris68
Legend
Loyaler
Meh, I disagree. And yes I subscribe to the Lock support forums on 2p2 and frequent them a lot. In fact that's about the only forum I post in over there (cuz CC is my tru luv!!!).Have you been reading all the problems over there? It is the best Revolution skin to avoid.
To be clear, no site/network available to US players comes close to the quality of PS or even FTP in its glory days. So by comparison all available options suck.
But given what options we have, I'll take Lock. I've been very happy with them. I've withdrawn a total of over 5 figures in the last, oh, 18 months. I just withdrew 4 figures via WU last month, had it in 3 weeks with fee refunded without asking, no worries, and now they've gotten back down under 2 weeks in most cases. Checks suck because they're now drawn on Canadian banks which cause some people problems and delays with their banks. Before that their US-drawn checks were prone to bouncing. Not Locks fault though -- even Stars & FTP had that problem, and it still happens frequently with Merge too. Picking US payment processors is like playing Russian roulette, the poker sites get scammed as often or moreso than the players.
Sure, lots of people have mixed experiences, many have legitimate gripes, but a lot of them are also idiots. Same thing on Merge networks. I would rate BCP the best Merge skin but it's not without its own issues too, and Merge itself has them all by the balls and is pretty questionable at times on its own.
So no, Lock is no Stars, but it's better than the Cake skin IMO. intertops was arguably one of the best Cake/Revo skins but hasn't been available to new US accounts for awhile and even then weren't without their own complaints if you look around. Some have reported Lock is better than Intertops and was leaning on Lock as the new owner of the network to force Cake and Intertops to adopt Lock methods. So YMMV.
WEC
Legend
Silver Level
You can. I will repeat, and I rarely ever say things like this. Given the amount of different problems going on over there in just the last month or so, plus all the other widely reported problems (including lying about a deposit bonus and cheating a number of people out of money) and the representatives responses, I would not keep money on the site, period. This includes MANY PEOPLE having serious issues with Deposits and Withdrawals (going beyond normal USA stuff).
When ample evidence is shown repeatedly that there are problems, you are just asking for trouble if you keep your head buried in the sand.
Good Luck to you I hope no serious problems develop
pifan
PiFace
Silver Level
Sounds like a mess having a poker site create an account for you on another site ffs another hit for USA (a free Country?)
hackmeplz
Sleep Faster
Silver Level
Only if you don't cash out.
WEC
Legend
Silver Level
Something to do with segregating as many US players together as possible I would guess, so if something goes wrong it does not effect the entire ROW player base.
TeUnit
Legend
Loyaler
Debi
Forum Admin
Administrator
Thanks for letting us know! They must have picked it up from Twitter.
Poof
Made in the USA
Silver Level
That's awesome!
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AAChipMagnet
Visionary
Silver Level
Have you been reading all the problems over there? It is the best Revolution skin to avoid.
I kinda have to agree with this after reading some things online. One never knows how an individual will be treated but if it doesn't sound good.......Not surprised that Cake, etc. are moving off US players. This will force some to the flagship Lock and segregate accounts for them. Nothing is getting better with poker online it seems but at least there are still SOME options. Bovada I've never had a problem with despite my dislike for anon tables now.
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AAChipMagnet
Visionary
Silver Level
You might want to consider a trade option with someone such as on 2P2. You'll eat a percentage but you will get the other 75-80% at least without delay or much worry. Stick with trustworthy traders.
Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
Charade You Are
you can call me Frost
Silver Level
Thought of that, but not a big poster there. Thought getting over $500 would be a problem.
So the real question is do it now or wait?
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dmorris68
Legend
Loyaler
I've not had any problems. And since they've been offering WU that's the only way to go IMO, pays in 2 weeks which for US player is as good as you're going to find anywhere, better than the vast majority.
But what do I know, I've only been playing at Lock almost exclusively for 18 months -- pre and post Revolution -- and have cashed out a half dozen times. If you follow the support threads of all the US facing skins, you find horror story after horror story on ALL of them. US cashouts are tedious at best on any site. Lock cashouts on Revolution have been better than Cake's by far. 5 months was the norm at Cake lately.
Support sucks? Yep
Cashouts slow? Yep
Any other US-facing site any better? Nope