if you actually read the first post, it explains that cashouts can be reversed due to their payment type goods/services and note, so comments that i actually read in the second post of people who cashed out, doesn't change the fact of the first post. i use paypal and sites send me payments of the type friends/family and with no note, so why can't global poker send the same?

please provide your "research" that they have fairly solid backing and that online US sweepstakes poker is going on for a few years now.

US sweepstakes poker has been going on for years. Have you ever heard of ClubWPT? It's completely legal.
Just because you are not aware of it does not make it illegal does it?
But if you are so paranoid that you think they will reverse a payout perhaps you should not play with them.

We understand that there are doubts around this business model. But we will do what we can to answer any questions you have. And with that alongside us making sure you get your money whenever you cashout, we are certain that we will build a mutual trust between you as a player and us as an operator.

We like to congratulate the players that now reached final table in our $10,000 Super Bowl Freeroll. Now lets see who comes out on top. Good luck everone. 8 players left now.

Also, NLOP has been paying out thru paypal for years and I have never heard of a payout being reversed. Those reddit threads don't have any links to payouts being reversed even when someone requested links for prove, nothing provided.

We like to congratulate username tbla43 to a $2,600 payday. He just won our $10,000 Super Bowl freeroll.

Nicely done. And Mr. ZigZag. Even though it sucks being so close and end up the runner up, we hope $1,300 will make up for some of that feeling.
We will amp up our tournaments so be sure to stay with us for your share of the winnings.

Thank you everybody for playing.

So this is pretty cool, i just registered and currently playing.

GP Admin i have read this and another GP Thread but can still not wrap my head around the legality of this.

Can you explain please?
I heard someone said it's like Club WPT but as far as i understand you pay a monthly fee and play for points there - no?

Does not seem to be exactly the same?

Thanks

so global poker, why won't you answer my questions?

Because you are not friends nor family of the site. Paypal does not charge a fee when sending to friends or family and the site could have their account canceled if they start sending money to 1000 players stating they are friend or family, and paypal would not make any money.
Elementary.

"Sending money – Personal payments: It's free within the U.S. to send money to family and friends when you use only your PayPal balance or bank account, or a combination of their PayPal balance and bank account. There is a fee to send money as a personal payment using a debit card or credit card."

i asked global poker, do you represent global poker or are you a shill?

i said "i use paypal and sites send me payments of the type friends/family and with no note" and the reddit post pointed out players are sent goods/services payments but players aren't providing any goods or services to global poker.

Hi.

You are actually purchasing something. You are purchasing our packages of GoldCoins. You can use those GoldCoins to either play for fun to practise, buy avatars or complete challenges to play in our $weeps tournaments where you can cashout your winnings.

Also when you are purchasing Gold Coin packages we are giving you our real money currency called $weeps. You get these for free and they can be used to play cashgames and/or tournaments. Any winnings you can legally cashout. Its legal because you get your initial $weeps for free.

The change of password is a feature that is coming. The email change is not something that we are looking at right now. But having said that, if it turns out to be a big deal we would def look into it.

No you are the shill. Sending money to anybody that is not friend/family that is not violates PP TOS. Can't you read what PP says?

If you ask an intelligent question I am sure they will answer.

Just because he doesn't work for Global doesn't mean he can't use his common sense - his answer seemed pretty on point to me. I know that people frequently use the friends/family feature to get around the fees, but I don't think that would fly for a business to do on a regular basis. But I'm not an expert on Paypal.

It's fine to be cautious when a brand new site comes along suggesting they are able to do things in a way that most poker sites aren't - I would be to. But cross-posting the same thing in three different threads and then suggesting someone might be a shill for giving what they think is an answer to your question doesn't seem especially productive.

It's going to be crazy if this gets big, doesn't fall apart, starts pokerboom etc and we all talk about how we were making it way too hard, trying to get laws passed lol

Is this connected through facebook? Can you play with no facebook account? I haven't looked at global site, I might just be making this Facebook thing up lol

Hi Grandmaster. You can play without having a Facebook
account. Just click on the register button on top of the globalpoker.com screen.

What rewards or RB do u offer?

so sorta like when you couldnt sell concert tickets for more than face value

so you go on ebay or whenever and sell a magazine for a few hundred and say OH YEA IM including these tickets of no value with the sale

HEY MAN I WASNT SCALPING TICKETS I SOLD A RARE MAGAZINE


ok is this right

IM buying gold coins that really mean nothing but youre giving me free sweeps with these gold coins though i can only enter games with sweeps

So am i allowed to spend my gold coins on avatars and **** and still have my full free sweeps money or does gold coin purchases that are no value still take away money from my sweeps which is real money

an i just put in a sweeps withdraw request or a gold coin withdraw request

also when i looked earlier this week are all your mtts going to be set up like FF with all being rebuy addon stuff cause that is sorta of a deal killer

They offer freerolls for raking above .5 .10 such as seeing 100 flops and getting entry into a 500 weekly freeroll. Then there is a weekly where if you see 500 flops you can enter a 1500 freeroll. They don't have rakeback but they have other incentives. Its really a horrible place to play , and I am saying that because I don't want all the 2 plus 2 hudders infeltrating the site.

What proof do you have the cashout is actually legal in USA? Also what proof do you have that Paypal is OK with this. "XXXX has been doing it for years" is not valid proof.
According to Paypal's acceptable use policy - Activities requiring approval:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mp...ptableuse-full
"Activities involving gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports betting, horse or greyhound racing, fantasy sports, lottery tickets, other ventures that facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not legally defined as gambling) and sweepstakes, if the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law."
Your business model would fall into this category (especially the bolded language) and the fact your $weeps is "free" by your own words has nothing to do with Paypal's policy.

A transaction reversal is the least of my worries here. I really wish you and all who decide to use your site the best, but I am not risking my Paypal account being closed indefinitely to play here without word from Paypal they have approved your model.

PayPal requires pre-approval to accept payments for certain services as detailed in the chart below.


Seems to me that they are the ones risking their account if not pre-approved, not the player. But your concern is justified if you interpred the other way. Just don' play until you are satisfied. They have already posted that paypal was ok with it.

Paypal will not be able to help when the payment is based on a form of virtual currency, so while I doubt they would close an account for receiving funds from gambling, they would not be able to do anything to help get it back if the money is reversed etc. They have the same type of policy for people who buy and sell stuff from those Warcraft type games.

This is one of those sites that each person has to make their own call as to the risk and reward. Clearly how this company defines their way around the Paypal policies is fairly LOLBad, and the "rep" here sounds fairly inexperienced in how and what he is choosing to answer (and also avoid answering).

The "we never had problems, so it must be ok" line is generally a red flag, not that this company will reverse transactions (I doubt they will as long as they make money), but rather that their ability to use Paypal may change in the future if and when reality visits them. When or if that happens? Who knows, perhaps never, perhaps sooner than that, and that is what every person should factor in to their choice.

People are focusing on the "loophole of Paypal" far too much. The much more important factor is who owns this site? Who is running this site and from where? Once that's established we can move on to the technical aspects of getting funds on and off the site.

On site, to mail to get the free sweep money they show a San Francisco CA address.

Also it appears to me that they must have some backing to be able to run a $10k freeroll so soon after opening.