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Originally Posted by sokekax
What are withdrawals like with this site?
I can tell u my experience here. First off, I'm an American & I quit playing online poker several years ago. It has just been going downhill since 2006 (especially for Americans) - the first few years I played 2002-2006 were good.
So I had switched from ring games to playing tourneys near the end of my online play. I was playing tourneys at Cake where the buy-ins would be $10 or $15 & you got a certain amount of chips & there were unlimited rebuys during the 1st hour & u would usually have a player who would keep going all-in preflop with almost anything to double or triple up.
And most players would play a little looser if they thought the situation called for it including myself. Then there would be an add-on after the 1st hour and that is when the tourney really started. Anyway - I was playing a lot of tourneys like this, or if there were no rebuys or add-ons I would play tourneys that cost around $50.
Like I said - I was doing well at this. Then one day I went to log in at Cake & I couldn't and didn't know why. So I came to this forum & found out that all American players had been transferred to a site called Juicy Stakes.
There WAS NO NOTIFICATION TO THE PLAYERS THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN - NONE!!!! So I was able to log into JUICY STAKES with my Cake info. I went to the area that showed how much money you had & they had moved my balance there from Cake.
But at CAKE you could make one withdrawal per month for free. At Juicy Stakes it cost you $100 to make a withdrawal. I couldn't believe this. But then I saw why I WASN'T NOTIFIED THIS ONLINE ROOM SWITCH WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
I got in touch with Juicy Stakes and told them if they were a brick and mortar card room in the USA.....they would never get away with robbing their customers....I tried to get in touch with Cake too (because they gave no notice Americans were all going to be moved to Juicy Stakes & I'm sure they didn't for the same reason Juicy Stakes didn't), but they never answered any of my E-mails from the day the switch took place.
Juicy Stakes just replied that it cost $100 to make withdrawals at their site, but maybe at some future date they might lower it. And the way online poker works - the player never has any recourse to anything that happens that negatively affects them. Juicy Stakes could have said it cost $200 to make a withdrawal.
Even at $100 - all the players who played mini-stakes poker would never be able to withdraw their money.
Obviously - these sites should have notified their customers that this switch was going to happen and the ramifications of it at least a month before it happened. And obviously they didn't because I would have withdrawn all my money from Cake for free & not let these scumbags rob me of $100 as I'm sure everybody else would have too.
So that was my experience there several years ago.