Thank you! Figured BTC was the only way to go. I guess I'll have to get acquainted with it.

Thanks again

Best site to play multi-table SNGs?

ACR or Ignition/Bovada. If want rakeback, sign up before opening account with an affiliate.

Download the software of both sites, and see which one you like better. I play on ignition, and there never seems to be a shortage of tourney players. Most guarantees are not overlapped, the multi tables run often.

The DONs and Jackpots are not filling up as much, since there seems to have been a recent elimination of bots on the site. Bovada and Ignition share the same player pool. Support is abundant in the Ignition forums, moderators solve problems quickly.

However, see what you like better by - checking with an affiliate for code first, download software with code before depositing - scope out the games by observing a few.

Good luck.

Which sites still offer these besides bovada? If there is the wrong place to ask this question sorry.

Hard to know where it does belong without providing your country - I assume US, since you mention Bovada?

yea im in usa sorry should have mentioned this bobo.

All good.

ACR offers rakeback. 27% and 27% only. Anything outside of 27%, above or below, is a non-sanctioned offer and will get the affiliate potentially kicked out of the program. The client will get to keep 27% rakeback, the affiliate will lose the customer and potentially many more or all of them.

Ignition and Bovada do not offer rakeback. Any affiliate offering rakeback is 100% kicked out of the program, all customers are lost, as is all future and unpaid pending revenue. Anyone offering this is a fool.

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blockchain.poker you will play for real crypto. they use satoshis as playing currency. they have alot of HU tables and you can create your own tables there.

Any advice for a player in Connecticut? Haven't played online since Black Friday.

Do a lot of sites allow direct funding & easy withdrawals via bitcoin?

Assuming I use a VPN, am I good to go? The sites don't ask for any other personal information, address verification, etc?

1. Direct in and out, all US facing sites.

2. If you use a VPN you will likely have trouble. US facing sites do not allow them really and most will be violating TOS. Every site requires full verification except SWC and the APPs.

I'd highly recommend not trying to be cute and use a VPN. If you violate the TOS, you will find yourself arguing for your money.

Not to be a Bitcoin Cash fanatic or anything, but I have found it to be much more useful lately since the price of Bitcoin has been going through the roof.

You see, along with the price appreciation has come a ton of trading and speculation and general network congestion which has caused BTC transaction times to increase and fees as well.

A transaction on BTC has been sometimes as much as $30 if you are using a wallet that can not adjust fees, and even then, still a few bucks to get a slow confirmation.

A BCH transaction has taken 10-20 minutes and cost 14% of one US cent or $0.0014 USD.

Outside of that, don't use VPNs, and every single site listed in the OP of this thread takes clients from the state of Ohio.

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Good catch.

Not sure why I typed Ohio, but the exact same advice applies. Let me fix the sentence:


Outside of that, don't use VPNs, and every single site listed in the OP of this thread takes clients from the state of Connecticut.

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Thanks guys. I signed up for Ignition.

First I tried to use Binance US to buy some BCH, but they don't accept customers in CT. So I went with Coinbase Pro.

Unfortunately, after you buy BCH, you have to wait 7 days before they let you move it off-site. So I'll have to wait until next weekend to resume my poker career. Also, my coins already dropped in value by 10% since I bought them three days ago, haha. What a world.

Apologies if this is in the wrong place.

I miss playing online. Unfortunately, there are no legal online sites for Colorado yet.

Can anyone recommend alternatives?

I'm very much the casual player, low-limit tournaments is where I'd spend most of the time, though I might dabble in cash some.

I'd be looking to improve my game, but not the primary focus. While I'll probably post some hands now & then to learn from the forum, I mostly want to play for entertainment.

Yes, I'm the guy you want at your table.

Here's some criteria:

• Not interested in crypto

• Safe, secure handling of deposits and withdrawals (though the latter is much less of a problem)

• Good-sized tournament fields (i.e., not every tourney is a three-table deal), especially for the low limits I'd be haunting.

• Good, reliable software

I'm sure there are criteria that I'm not thinking of, but that should get us started.

Crypto is big with ACR, Bovada, BOL.

I play on global mostly. You can deposit with credit/debit cards and get withdrawals into your bank account once verified and approved. Also "legal" in Colorado as well. Just my 2 cents

Sorry if this is somewhere else in the forums...

From what I can tell my options are PS , ACR and WSOP ?

I think Ive heard bad stories about all of them. Are there other legal options?


Thanks in advance.

Global Poker games are soft and you can mail in requests and get free money to play. I just made my first attempt at mailing requests and it hasn't been long enough for the money to hit my account, so I can't personally confirm it works. Their website tells you how to mail the requests.

Very nice writeup, a dewd. Thank you.

Hi! Thanks for the info. I am an European player but my best friend is working in the States for a couple of months and finds almost impossible to deal with all the rules to play poker there just the way he used to do here.
Seems that casinos have to follow different rules to be acceptable there.

Best USA site for PLO cash games action?

Back in September I returned to playing online poker since the Black Friday closing - a friend introduced me to a new online concept called "club poker". In states like mine in the US (I live in Texas), this is pretty much my only option for real money online poker.

So my buddy & I formed a club and eventually joined a union with 4 other club owners (basically combines our players so we have more consistent action, bigger tournaments, etc). Our club has ~150 members; our union has ~500 total.


Our problem is that the app we are using is still relatively new and not everything really works the way it should. Game play is fine (no problems there), but simple stuff like a user changing their password does not work. Short version is that we are kind of "shopping around" for a new site.

But we have some requirements in what we want out of a site that seems to have eliminated what I call "the big 3" (PokerBros, Pokerrr2, & PPPoker):

1. the app absolutely MUST be available not only on smart phones, but also on PC & Mac (and not a stupid emulator).
   
2. the app has to have "Cashier tools" so that a club owner can add funds to a club member's account, withdrawl funds, & show a history of account activity
   
3. the app has to have some sort of records for game play so an owner can keep track of how much play a member has, what levels, their winning/loosing, the rake they have paid, etc. With date/time selectable constraints.
   
4. the app has to have an "agent" system built in so a club owner can assign a downline of new players to someone who has recruited new players - with the ability to show play stats for each agent (we give our agents a % of the rake for the players they have recruited).

As I said, I have looked at PokerBros, Pokerrr2, & PPPoker, and have eliminated all of them as unsuitable.


So what other apps are an option for us?

How do legalities work? I live in Tennessee and everything I look up says that it's outright illegal to online gamble in TN. Yet, I see quite a few people who obviously play online in TN. Hell even Chris Moneymaker started here. My question is how worried should I be? Is there any real concerns to have starting online while living here in TN? Should I worry about any cash out issues. Thanks!!

Honestly, the sites you can play on are all grey market sites and are technically breaking US laws. I'd not worry too much about cashing out based on that reason.

The US facing sites all pay out and many threads here to back that statement up. If you play on private sites or Pokerbros then your agent's integrity is 100% your concern.

That's because the Internet is full of people who will give answers with great certainty on topics they know little about.

Lies, if its on the interwebs must be truth