No More ePassporte?

**Bobo Fett** · 04-12-2008, 12:05 AM

This has already made it into a couple of other threads in this forum, but I thought it deserved its own thread (as its relevance isn't exclusive to Stars or Cake):

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April 11, 2008

To all Cake Poker Customers:

We have received notice from ePassporte today that they are unable to continue to provide CakePoker with merchant e-wallet services. We have since confirmed that this situation is not unique to CakePoker and is, in fact, industry wide.

While we are disappointed with this decision, we want to reassure all players that there will be no impact to either your account balances or your account status at Cake. We are pleased to have launched earlier this week with a new payment processor and have already secured alternative processors/eWallets that we will be launching in the weeks to come. We are also in discussions with other providers that will be making their services available in the CakePoker cashier soon. Players are welcome to inquire with Customer Support for more details.

As always, we value your business and will continue to make every effort possible to make your poker experience a great one.

Regards,

The CakePoker Team
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Hopefully this will spur someone on to start a better eWallet, or for the sites to get some better options. Sorry to hear our neighbours to the South are taking another one in the nuts.

Chris S. · 04-12-2008, 12:08 AM

I'll go post this thread in High Stakes Limit & Brick and Mortor and then all the Forums should be covered.

Learning · 04-12-2008, 12:09 AM

I'm pretty worried about this.

**Bobo Fett** · 04-12-2008, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Learning

I'm pretty worried about this.

All I can say is don't panic too quickly. Sites like Stars and FT will be extremely motivated to get alternatives in place.

timmay28 · 04-12-2008, 12:13 AM

Advise please - should I try to withdraw my roll from stars now?

Chris S. · 04-12-2008, 12:13 AM

Panic attack...

Spenda · 04-12-2008, 12:14 AM

hell no

don't put money on epass at all costs

stars can always mail you a check

Baadshah · 04-12-2008, 12:15 AM

i have little in epassporte right now shud i withdraw it to my bank account cant deposit on any pokersite right now.

braminc · 04-12-2008, 12:18 AM

im pretty sure there no reason to cashout from anywhere. if you have money in epass its SAFE, you just wont be able to deposit it into a poker account. they will let you cash it to your bank account (cause thats not poker related)

and obv if you have money in a pokersite. theres no reason to try to cash it out through epass since it will most likely just be declined and there currently are and will be even more alternate methods for cashing out.

this sucks but it shouldnt trigger any immediate action from the players other than to look for new options.

LateNiteRush · 04-12-2008, 12:18 AM

It's completely gone from TruePoker...

**Bobo Fett** · 04-12-2008, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by braminc

im pretty sure there no reason to cashout from anywhere. if you have money in epass its SAFE, you just wont be able to deposit it into a poker account. they will let you cash it to your bank account (cause thats not poker related)

and obv if you have money in a pokersite. theres no reason to try to cash it out through epass since it will most likely just be declined and there currently are and will be even more alternate methods for cashing out.

this sucks but it shouldnt trigger any immediate action from the players other than to look for new options.

QFT.

ShowUthExit · 04-12-2008, 12:20 AM

move to Canada imo

tautomer · 04-12-2008, 12:22 AM

How nice, I just made a deposit on Stars for the reload bonus and they're not giving me the option to withdraw because epassporte was used to make the deposit and whatever I deposited is supposed to go back through them first. Uh, I need to withdraw my !@%%^#& money. Like now.

LateNiteRush · 04-12-2008, 12:22 AM

So wait, it's not just discontinued for people from the USA? It's discontinued for everyone around the world?

**Bobo Fett** · 04-12-2008, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by LateNiteRush

So wait, it's not just discontinued for people from the USA? It's discontinued for everyone around the world?

I'm not sure; I got the email, so that might be the case, or it might be that Cake sent out a blanket email. Doesn't matter nearly as much to the rest of us, I don't think...with all the other options available I imagine most non-Americans use other eWallets anyway.