Well, I have officially joined the "2 year club" at Lock Poker. That's 2 years (and 2 days) since I submitted a withdrawal request to Lock and still haven't received one damn cent from the site. Many emails and many repLIES, but NO MONEY. I'm sure they are still accepting deposits... how the f..k can they just go on and on...

Juicy Stakes did the same thing to me. I made a small deposit ($50) to try out the site, and I can't get it back because the minimum withrawl is $500.

what did the support say?

They still taking dep. Cant believe this. Cant we report this to someone??

It's always some canned response about how "they have made recent changes and will be able to get the w/d processed in the near future" and "we will process your request as soon as blah, blah, blah gets corrected" or just whatever bs they come up with at that time. Of course with mine, over the last 6 months, they know that I know that they are just one humongo pile of excrement...

That's my question too... but no one in the U.S. can do anything about it unless they go full bore Black Friday on them. Hey, what goes around usually comes around, and so I believe that the people involved will be punished by some regulatory agency wherever their charter or license is... hopefully, anyways.

You are clearly choosing to believe a delusion that makes you feel good. Humans do this with many so called "cherished" beliefs. "What goes around usually comes around" is a nonsensical phrase. Your money is gone forever. Do you really think that after 2 years you have any chance of seeing a dime? Move on; the smart people have some time ago.

I hope people remember this thread and the stuff that Lock is getting away with the next time someone tries to say that Bovada is about to get the hammer dropped on them by the USA. The USA DOJ has no jurisdiction, no power, to do a damn thing to either Lock or Bovada and that's why those sites do as they please. That's why I have every confidence to play on Bovada every single day (plus they pay out). The countries that Lock/Bovada are based in have no interest in shutting them down. You can imagine (I can't prove it but it seems easy to do) that in those countries it is fairly easy to pay off the right officials to look the other way while you hose "easy money" from Americans.

same thing I wanted to say!

go do something, do you have any proof you got that money ?

I want to agree with you, but I'm not sure I can do it.

I have a little under $50 trapped on Juicy Stakes (Cake Network). I didn't ask to make a withdrawal--I know fees for that are getting more and more common. I said I wasn't going to play any more on the site, and I want to take my money off.

Did I know there was a risk putting money anwhere after Black Friday? Yes. Did I expect, or should I have expected, that a site with a minimum deposit of $50 would have a $500 minimum withdrawl? No.

My concern it not only that they did this, but that they are still doing it. I would guess that most players making a deposit of $100 or less will never see their money again, because about 2/3 of online players are losers. Even for the ones that double they money, many won't run it up above $500. The people at Juicy Stakes must know that most of their depositors will never see their money again.

I don't disagree with anything that you said. You were factually and logically correct. But it really stinks, and I completely understand where OP is coming from.

Hey, I agree with you... yes, that's right, you're right. I won't see a dime. My purpose is to add to the chronicle of their toxic business practices, and that is logical. As long as they are in "operation", I believe that the poker community should be actively engaging in the public relations war against them. If online poker is ever legal in the US, and I believe it will, I know that they will not be able to operate one day in this market unless someone makes a deal with the DOJ, the same way that Full Tilt got bailed out by Pokerstars. Oh yeah, that was a 3 year waiting period for receiving my funds "Smart person"

I was in a tournament the other day ( not on lock ) and a couple players were talking about overlays in lock pokers games. I told them they don't pay and just got a yea in chat as a response.

I got curious to see how many still play on that site so I downloaded it.

They are still getting deposits .... not many but some. They have $50 deposit freerolls. I seen running with 7-8 players. They also run freerolls for $109 buy in games that give tickets to top 25. So it looks like allot of the players in these bigger games on lock get in for free.

Just a run down of what I seen on the site for those of you that have already deleted it.

Right there with you, OP... I'm owed two independent withdrawals, the first of which was shadily denied from me with some loop hole through WU when I went to collect at a WU in Las Vegas during the series outside my local zip... Instead of reprocessing the withdrawal they insisted that once the 21 day period or whatever expired, I was SOL...

Unbelievable that people are still depositing on the site, or that the software is even still supported, for that matter.