Lol how many times we gotta bail your countries out from invading armies, your banks out from bankruptcy, and keep a missile shield over your head before you lose that arrogance?

I'm not a fan of America currently, but the EU is a joke.

You're really waving the banner of Technology and Civilization in Greece, Portugal, and Ireland aren't ya. Over under on how much US money they beg for? How much debt does Germany have? LolFrance. We still tell England when and where to ****.

Hang on to that arrogance though, you need something I guess.

Hey, they have enough population density to have workable subways and other mass transit. That's very green, I hear. Don't hate on the Euros, imo.

HOW DO YOU EXIST?

Fpps sustain me hahaAHahAHahA sadface.jpg

LOL threaderailaments. SNE for 1 more week!

...says the arrogant man.

i hate to agree given my current feelings about our country/govt/the direction we are headed, but lol he DOES have a few points there imo.

lol really?

are they really gonna remove SNE status due to no 50k vpp during the ban?

I've read somewhere on this forum that they will not.

well im gonna email them and find out

yeah steve told me "of course we wont take away vip status during this"

I've been weighing my options for the week and still seem to be leaning toward Canada, I was a bit disappointed that the VIP email I just got from Gareth saying that we were getting our funds as soon as they found a processor then said, "likely in several weeks"

Still much better than Neteller when that went down but I was definitely hoping to get up and going before June if not sooner. That's not realistic for me though until I can withdraw, I'm pretty much busto irl.

Anyway though I've been reading the speculation about the banks and thanks to the one link it looks like a US passport and US driver's license should be enough to get an account open, but what about the whole "6 months in Canada without a visa".

Does anyone know how that works or a site they could point me to? I have friends and family only about 1.5 hours south of Canada so I would probably be leaving for a few days every 2 weeks minimum. Does this 6 months reset every time you leave? Does it have to be a certain amount of time you're gone for? How would they even know I was residing there?

Like if I go up for say 3 weeks, come back down for 4 days go back for 1 week down for 2 days etc the whole time it seems like if they were tracking that at the border it would look like I was just visiting and going back and forth (which I would be). It might look a little suspicious for drug activity but I've been searched by Canadian border patrol before, no biggie just slows you down an hour.

I have no clue why we don't use PINs on credit cards, it isnt like the technology isn't there it definitely is, we've had Pins on debit cards forever, it's just their choice I guess, we only use PINs on CCs for getting cash advances. I've always thought the signing aspect of a credit card was weak security, but as said you report it stolen and you get your money back. It happened to me once and my money was back in no time with practically no questions asked, it made me think about 'fake stealing' from myself tbh.

I tried to look into what qualifies as an exit before and I was never able to find anything actually solid on it.

My understanding is that just stepping over the boarder and then coming back is sufficient but the Canadian boarder can reject you if you looking suspicious so I wouldn't do that.

If this was pre 9-11 I would say don't even worry as no one is keeping track. Now they likely are putting in more effort. That being said the Canadian government is just a make work project for people too ******ed to work retail under normal circumstances. They are too lazy to put much effort into monitoring or doing anything about people who shouldn't be here.

One important thing that should be made clear is that Canadian income tax is based on residency while US tax is based on citizenship. If you spend more than six months in Canada you will be considered a resident under the Tax Act. This makes for a complicated tax situation.

Hoooray for today being Good Friday! Last Friday was not as Good.

Anyone here looking to move to Australia, and more specifically Sydney? Not looking for a roommate or anything, just wondering. I just applied for a 12-month visa yesterday.

Regarding the VISA requirements. You could just get a student VISA and become a student. Take a bunch of bird courses and get yourself a degree.

Still no decision on our WSOP main event packages for those interested.

"You were unregistered from the SCOOP events. Unfortunately, we have not made a decision on FPPs, WSOP live event reward, and tournament ticket refunds. Please rest assured that we will do what is fair to our players and will communicate as soon as we have further information."

I guess I was cashing them in ON Friday after I heard the news, before they put a stop to it.

needbear!

WRT to the questions about American credit cards, yes, European merchants are required to take them. No, they don't always take them. Much like merchants in the United States are not allowed to have a minimum amount required to use a credit card, yet you see signs that say "$10 minimum" everywhere.

In Europe, credit cards have pin numbers attached to them. Your American credit cards will not work in the machines that process credit in Europe unless the merchant changes the machine to accept American cards and require a signature. This is not hard to do, but if you are off the beaten tourist path at all, it is not easy to convince them to do it. Also, you will sometimes get surcharged 10% for using a "foreign credit card," which really applies only to American cards.

The reason most of Europe went to this system is because of fraud. In the United States, the companies have decided that changing up the entire system is not cost effective, so yes, we are absolutely using inferior technology as 90%+ of credit card fraud would be eliminated by requiring pin numbers. To the guy who said American cards have pin numbers, lol you. And to the guy who flamed me for "bailing my country out of wars" or whatever, lol you.

So yeah, you can use your cards, it's a huge pain in the butt and be prepared to sometimes have to use a debit card or whatever. Just be aware that the one place where you will have no success using these cards is in automated machines, so always make sure you have some other way to pay for train tickets, subway tickets, etc., which are often fully automated.

Another American that slept walked through life who's news come from TV.

News? Does England even have a newspaper that doesn't feature what "Kate and Will!" are eating for tea and which soccer star is ****ing a prostitute as it's breaking news? Serious question.

I have a degree in World History, and spent four months in England studying (drinking and flying to Amsterdam on the weekends).

I don't need either of those experiences to know the EU is a joke, and an uppity one at that

I thought this answered that
FAQ
-Will US residents who qualified online or earned their packages through the VIP program still be able to play in upcoming EPT events?
Yes, US residents are eligible to play in all PokerStars sponsored live events. Tournament packages and buy-ins won or otherwise earned on PokerStars will be honored.

I don't see them not honoring those. They have a worldwide business to protect.

Huh? There are lots of non-citizens in the U.S. who pay income tax.

No, I "lold' at you because you're making fun of people while repeating the same mistake over and over. What do you think 'PIN' stands for?

As was said in the domain name agreement, PokerStars has to get a "Monitor" set in place before they can process US cashouts. This entity will have to be someone/company that is trusted by the DOJ, so it will take a short time to get this infrastructure in place. They could commit fraud again to get you your money, but I think their lawyers are trying to limit their legal liability.

I think them saying several weeks is a great thing. Indicates that's the maximum amount of time they expect it to take.

Yeah I realize that, I'm not pissed or anything, I just heard on the news a few days ago that the DOJ was going to let us have our money back and was hoping it would be fairly quick for them to find someone that would be willing to do it since it was on the up and up now. I'm still REALLY happy with this overall since I was worried it might be a 6 months or more situation like with Neteller, I guess I just got my hopes up a little too high. Like I said, I was a bit disappointed.