You missed a key point he was making about the UIGEA. It targets the banks, not individuals. It states that it is illegal for a bank to allow a transaction TO a gambling site. Not that it is illegal for an individual to deposit on a gambling site. My understanding is that it is legal for banks to accept withdrawals FROM those sites, but banks err on the side of caution and just kill all transactions involving gaming sites. They just don't want the risk of the gov't fining them.
So, yeah, technically the only legit way to process your transactions is bitcoin (and even that is gray for the wallets. Just look at how circle and coinbase view gaming transactions), but that just means that if you do it through the bank, you will have to claim it as "sports equipment" or "payment for gay porn web design." Then by doing that, you are committing bank fraud and that is a whole other thing.
Edit: I should add that claiming it as one thing or another is only if they ask. Not all banks will ask every time you deposit a foreign check. Some ask about any check over a certain amount regardless of origin. Depends on how you want to handle that. Some have had luck just telling them "none of your business," but you risk them closing your account because "they have a right to know their customer." There is some good info in the Poker Legislation forum about all of this. Certainly much more accurate and knowledgeable than anything I have written.
Thank you for this information and for steering me in the right direction
Your 2nd post in this thread laid out a step by step guide to evade taxes so dont be suprised by the responses you get. Im not being emotional at all, im just explaining the severity of your suggestion because apparently you dont know..
Ah, that's where the miscommunication happened. I wasn't intending to suggesting anything. A guy was suggesting advice that would get people in trouble and I corrected him by saying how his way would get you in trouble and how not to do that. Intended for theoretical purposes only.
Update: its still lagging during normal cash game play as of right now, and getting the unable to process your request pop ups occasionally even when making no "requests" at all. Didn't use to get any lag ever, new today.
The lags are not consistent, its more like it will freeze for 1-2 seconds then unfreeze. Still tilting though.
I switched to ACR this weekend and I like it a lot - can re-enter tournies, better GUI, no lag/drops, lots of high/medium buy in tournies, you can select 1/2 pot etc bets. Depositing/withdrawing with BTC was a snap.
I'm sold.
Will keep some money on Ignition but not playing there until it's fixed.
I would agree with everything except there should be more freezeout MTTs I understand Re\Add are there to build prize pool.
I can't help but feel these 'updates & maintenance' are designed to drive people to the casino. The software kept giving me the "We can't process your request at this time" while in the poker lobby trying to get the MTT and STT lobbies to pop up. All I got was a blank page in both lobbies while the stupid error message followed me around no matter where I clicked in the poker half.
Pull up the casino no ****ing problem. The error message goes away immediately and Im able to gamble my cash in the casino no problem. One good thing is going back to the poker lobby the error message is gone and tournies are showing up again. I won a dollar at blackjack, so I showed them ****ers!
they wont, from my experience they dont touch tickets. they recently ran a promo where you could receive 5 $22 tickets, i tried to convert the 5 $22 tickets into one $109 ticket and they said no.
did everyone get this? I got one for $11 tickets back in March, never heard of this one. is it only players who wrote in to complain?