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Reliably? Opening yourself up to identity, bank fraud, and bank account closure sure doesn't sound appealing or is worth the risk. FFS how many times does global need to show how incompetent/ unqualified they are? They were sharing everyone's identity and banking info to the OPEN WEB not so long ago. Are you ****ing kidding me?!?!

That's not speculation either, it's PROOF. And you guys are trying to label me as some paranoid irrational person.

Well they are "winning" (maybe just shills) right now so they think they are great skilled poker players and want more traffic on the site so they can out play everyone and make millions of dollars. They will downswing just like everyone else and then their tune will change. Showing the negative aspects of a poker site are just as important as the positive ones. People don't want to just hear the happy part of a poker site. I still play on it. Its better then dealing with ddos attacks on ACR, but it definitely red flag when they can no longer use paypal.

I am gonna play on it for rest of the year only with MTTs and see how the cash outs are and then decide if i want to be on it in the future. I do want to give Global a chance cause they are new and they been pretty nice to me overall. I just wont play cash games I don't trust them but it doesn't mean they can't improve and make the site better as they learn from mistakes and come up with better ways to promote to bring more traffic. If it was a older site I would leave. But I like to give the newer sites a chance and give them a benefit of the doubt. If they want to keep customers have to improve the software.

06-28-2018 , 09:21 PM

#77

iburydoscocaroaches

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 1,222

Quote:

Originally Posted by yellowfever

I've already seen other sites get worse due to adding crypto.Go back and watch ChicagoJoey podcast from the time they added bitcoin to bovada he talks about how the highstakes omaha games got worse all of a sudden in a few episodes during his pod for a bit. It was also brought up in the bovada thread in internet poker by multiple posters. The games are still fine but they got worse for sure.

As I've already stated im not concerned with adding options for regs to take off money right now. I'm worried about recs. Regs will always play and take any option available due to needing to make a living. Adding p2p transfers and bitcoin doesnt help Joe 9-5 who doesnt even care about bitcoin existence and isnt in a group of poker friends to ask for 500 bucks at will.

The identity theft thing- You have to send in documents when you make an account here. For proof of address I used the exact same bank account statement(a more current one for worldpay) that I used to get worldpay going. To cash out cryptos with coinbase you're going to have to verify a bunch of **** anyways. I had to send in a copy of my credit card +ID and a utilitybill for other sites years ago. Thats just how it is with everything in todays day and age. You dont even need to use your last 4 digits of social security number for worldpay.

I agree with the fact you do have to give all your documents to play on most poker sites. Coin poker you don't have to do it being a crypto site which i like and i think will be the future of where people play poker. People are getting tired of giving out their info to play poker online and risking all their documentation on the internet. But these other sites I think pretty much all of them i had to give bank statements, and id. Nothing new to do this procedure.

07-01-2018 , 04:57 PM

#78

NTellier85

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 450

Currently almost a 40,000 overlay in the 50k guar scrimmage with 30min til the tourney runs haha

07-01-2018 , 05:01 PM

#79

StaYSMacKed

grinder

Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 616

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTellier85

Currently almost a 40,000 overlay in the 50k guar scrimmage with 30min til the tourney runs haha

They aint scared. There will be a random "server crash".

07-01-2018 , 06:05 PM

#80

PokerDividends

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 226

only 5k overlay atm with 25min in registration

07-01-2018 , 06:17 PM

#81

goodsaint

veteran

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,377

Quote:

Originally Posted by upswinging

Merge didn't go down due to deposit options. In fact, their deposit options were surprisingly smooth and painless. What brought merge down, what created mass hysteria and broken trust was the slow and unrealistic cashout methods. By the time they got their act together it was too late.

Damn. I see why folks think you've got some Donald Trump in you when it comes to the truth. I'm in a tournament at this moment on Merge. Yes, they've lost a significant amount of their player pool from several years ago. But they're still here with many mtt folks supplementing their play on other sites at Merge. Stop being so fast and loose with the truth Donald. Merge did not go down. They're still here.

07-02-2018 , 09:45 PM

#82

jaytwo96

enthusiast

Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leool

If the cash out process takes 3-5 days exactly like they said there’s no reason for me to leave. 3-5 days process is fine comparing to other sites. I’m stopping playing big money until I get my money to in the bank.

it doesn't take 3 to 5 days, that's a complete lie. My first cashout took 12 days my most recent still hasn't been approved and its been almost a week.

07-02-2018 , 09:47 PM

#83

jaytwo96

enthusiast

Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 56

Quote:

Originally Posted by yellowfever

you realize you don't have to use coin base to sell BTC right? there are many ways to sell it hell find a friend who wants to buy some or maybe localbitcoins.com

07-02-2018 , 09:56 PM

#84

yellowfever

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 5,026

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaytwo96

you realize you don't have to use coin base to sell BTC right? there are many ways to sell it hell find a friend who wants to buy some or maybe localbitcoins.com

I know all about bitcoin. I'm not concerned about pro players using bitcoin. I'm concerned about Joe 9-5 who doesnt know about bitcoin and if they do sure as hell isnt going to be using local bitcoins.

07-03-2018 , 01:16 AM

#85

SoundPoker

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 210

Global looks like it's bleeding out.

At least at micros (which should be a good barometer)... tables are filled with the same regs.
And hard to keep even 6max tables full.

Anyone else seeing this, or abberation?

07-03-2018 , 06:46 AM

#86

djevans

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 5,055

yes tables are very sparse especially at PLO which is what I play. I haven't played in 7 days as i'm on vacation but have logged on to check tables and there are like 2 tables at the stake I play.

It used to be 7+

07-03-2018 , 11:16 AM

#87

SoundPoker

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 210

Quote:

Originally Posted by djevans

6max cash tables, at least at times I play... are definitely down.

I don't play SnG's, which I also assume would be a good way to measure activity.

But compared to weeks, or even more so months ago.... things don't look good with regards to volume and new players. That trend felt like it was starting before all of their incompetency with the payment systems.

07-03-2018 , 03:01 PM

#88

lagtight

banned

Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 10,279

Quote:

Originally Posted by djevans

yes tables are very sparse especially at PLO which is what I play. I haven't played in 7 days as i'm on vacation but have logged on to check tables and there are like 2 tables at the stake I play.

It used to be 7+

I've noticed this as well.

07-03-2018 , 03:38 PM

#89

kahntrutahn

Minbet Millionaire

Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 8,054

FWIW, searches/web traffic is down about 20% for Global Poker in the last couple weeks. This is based on our own internal metrics and tracking, not any 3rd party stuff.

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Kahn

07-07-2018 , 03:00 PM

#90

darthexecute

stranger

Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 7

I was a crappy part time player that enjoyed putting a few bucks in just to play on weekends. I left after all the paypal bs. People like me want easy deposits through paypal. Not giving all our bank info to a company for US players that has banks charge them a foreign transaction fee lol