+1,000,000

Go ahead and shove every hand and come back with your results (and supposedly huge winnings).

?????

We have posted laws on sweepstakes and statements from their website and forum postings. We have messaged them here in this thread for clarification and got no response. We have even posted from there prospectus and looked at their patent that they have pending. Global Poker has been vague and misleading and have broken their ToS on numerous occasions yet we are the ones that are not to be trusted?

Let me guess after losing at other poker sites you tried global and finally won for a change. So now you feel that your justified in thinking how great you are at poker and the idea that you are just winning prize drawings is more than your fragile ego can handle so ignore any logic that is contradictory to it.

You have shown absolutely zero proof that anything other than "real" poker is happening.Show proof or GTFO.

Global can't show proof that it's not.

People that buy in 10bb aren't entitled to their own opinions.

This.. right into the soul LOL

So some magical​ online poker site shows up post Black Friday claiming to be legal and using PayPal. They say they are legal because of the magic word Sweepstakes. They are vague about everything and refuse to answer legitimate questions about their game other than saying the RNG is still being tested. So people investigate what they mean by sweepstakes and what is going on. They post what they find. They post statements from the company, they post the laws the poker site claims to be following, and post what they company reps have posted in forums. They post about how the company breaks it's on ToS on multiple occasions and yet we are trolls and not to be trusted? I guess you are in the same camp where you finally won a little at "poker" and it would crush your ego that you just won a lottery.

If only poker stars had changed to poker stars sweepstakes they would of saved millions of dollars in legal fees and would of never left the US market LOL.

There wasn't a flush draw in that hand. Explain how it is 50/50 please

Post the hand

Please understand Global Poker is not claiming anywhere that they are offering real money poker. They do claim they offer play money poker, which they absolutely do. The play money poker (Gold Coins) on Global Poker is real poker.

The sweeps poker is a sweepstakes game designed to look like a real poker game, but it is only a very elaborate (and well done) sweepstakes game. This information is confirmed in all of their documentation, but it is well hidden to disguise what they are truly doing. What is not well hidden is the fact they have no information regarding rules and procedures of actual real money poker. Nowhere in their promotional material or on their website do the actual say the are offering real money poker. I have repeatedly asked for some one to find and share where they actual say this. Please find this and share to everyone.

Every other poker room promotes exactly what they do, but Global Poker is not promoting themselves as a poker room. They refer to this as social gaming, which is what they use in all of the company documents. A true real money poker room is not Social Gaming. Social Gaming is completely different than a traditional poker room.

Global poker is doing nothing illegal and they have developed a very fun and exciting way to play sweepstakes. Sweepstakes are completely legal to play, and can be fun and rewarding if you can win the contest, but understand you are playing a contest and not a poker game when you play sweeps poker. Because their game looks so much like real poker, I just want individuals to know the real game they are playing.

So glad I'm subscribed to this thread. I'm torn between this reaction:



and this one:

I am not quite sure what you are saying here, but in a true poker game where the cards are shuffled and random, the winner of the hand can change as the hand progresses through the streets. The likely winning hand will have a statistical percent advantage to winning the hand and will change as the hand progresses through the hand streets and the board dynamic changes, but the final outcome does not come until all cards are dealt. You can argue the player card sequence does not change given no participants leave the game, but this still does not qualify as a clear pre-determined winner.

The part that is lost here, is the fact the winner of the Global Poker sweepstakes contest is pre-determined and the card animation you see is actually just that - an programmed animation of a flop, turn, and river. It is not a random drawing of a poker hand. It can not be, because the winner has already been predetermined. The program has to show an animation to give the pre-determined winner the winning hand.

These sweepstakes programs are highly complex and quite frankly very well done. But that is exactly what this game is - a highly developed sweepstakes game meant to resemble actual poker.

lol. The guy with 2 pair did not have a flush draw.

Again, if you know this to be the case, why aren't you using this knowledge to exploit and absolutely crush the games? You could be printing money instead of posting here.

The purpose of my post are to inform the poker community of the true nature of Global Poker. Like most of the individuals here in this forum, I am committed to the advancement and growth of real poker in the US. If Global Poker (sweepstakes poker) becomes hugely popular, then later becomes a scandal with the US government, we could see a huge set back in the eyes of the public to advance poker in the US.

Right now, the US poker community is still trying to overcome the events and nature of Black Friday. And what we do know now, is that there were many less than honest unregulated poker sites operating in the US, prior to Black Friday, committing fraud against US citizens for monetary gains. (Remember: We all trusted Full Tilt!) The US poker community does not need more 'black eyes' right now. We need real businesses advancing poker legally in the US. Global Poker is using poker to advance their 'Sweepstakes Business'. I have no issue with their business. The issue I have is they are promoting it and associating it will real poker, which could potentially be damaging the real poker in the US

Lmao well said

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The one thing about the predetermined winners(if that is true)is that it is still dependent on the said player still even having a live hand when it is concluded....what if the player who was supposed to win said hand folds?

Honestly maybe I'm naive but I truly think some of you are crazy. The whole sweepstakes model premise is them circumventing the uigea to allow people to play for real $ and be able to handle payouts via pay paypal. Why would the site give 2 fukkss about who wins(predetermined or not) as long as they're still able to make money raking pots?

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This is the issue and we are not crazy. They market the site like you are saying but it's a lie. They are not just calling it a sweepstakes to get around UIGEA. That is what they want you to think but just calling it something else or saying your playing with dollar-roos instead of dollars isn't enough to get around the UIGEA. PayPal wouldn't allow that because they would be in violation and would be shut down. What this site is doing is running a sweepstakes with a poker theme. It is really well done like Class 2 slot machines are just electronic bingo games.warch this video

https://youtu.be/I55OZ9czsEY

You can see the bingo card which dictates what is on the screen. I know slots are random luck machines but there is a difference between a real slot and bingo. The other site run by VGW Holdings is Chumba Casino. This is how their games work. They are legal because they follow sweepstakes laws. Global poker is also a sweepstakes but it is advertised as poker. Going so far as to have a subform here at twoplustwo in an effort to decieve poker players into depositing and playing as if it was poker. If you will notice not a single rep has answered or tried to clarify things. If we were wrong would the site not make an effort to correct us from damaging the reputation of a brand new company?

This is a common assumption by many individuals, because this is the exact assumption Global Poker wants you to believe. However, as stated and established in previous post, virtual currency (sweeps cash) does not make poker (gambling) a sweepstakes game according to the US government. The game itself has to conform to the rules and guidelines set up for legal sweepstakes games in the US.

Global Poker is running a legal US sweepstakes game to conform to the laws in the US, but they are not making this completely clear to participants as they think they are playing an actual poker game. While this looks like a poker game, it is not, and we just want individuals to not be fooled by what they are seeing.

Then what id like to see as definite proof is specific sweepstakes laws that implicitly state or provide more validation to your comments.

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Sweepstakes laws are complex and complicated because there are many variants to legal sweepstakes in the US. It would take a great deal of effort and space to post those laws in this forum; however, if you read through the previous post you can find where we site from Global Poker's own documentation of how they are running a sweepstakes and not a real money poker room. All of their legal documentation refers to Sweepstakes Contest as there is no reference to real money poker games.

What everyone in the poker community knows is that it is against the law for banks and institutions to process payments for gambling or poker. Paypal would never entered into an agreement to process payments for a gambling website in the US; they would however, and do, process payments for legal US sweepstakes contest.

You can choose not to believe the information here, but we put this information here so individuals can research themselves and make informed decisions about the activity they are engaging in with Global Poker. Start at post 121 in this thread for more information.

Yes, they are, but that isn't stopping people from making very sweeping and declarative statements that they likely aren't qualified to make. A lot of opinion stated as fact ITT.

Also, OP really isn't helping when he keeps stating things about laws "we have posted" when I asked him multiple times to do so and he couldn't (you're the only one that's made a good attempt at it IIRC), and that reps haven't responded (I get that their responses haven't satisfied concerns, but that's very different than not responding at all).

The reps did not respond after I asked them directly. Their response before that was to post saying we were trolls while at the same time posting that RNG gif. When you say I have not posted a response to the law question, what is it you are looking for specifically and I will dig it up for you

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