You tell em Joe!

I expect WU to be up and running within days. How tough is it to find some guy in the Philippines who will process your WUs for you?

AP/UB has all the motivation in the world to fix this asap and pick up players from the sites who are going to drop out. They've been giving the finger to the govt for so long they are basically all in with that strategy at this point.

Wat? Stars and FTP don't HAVE to stop accepting US players. Essentially nothing has changed besides the justice dept. handing down an indictment for something we already knew they believed to be illegal (poker sites/players dissagree, but the DOJ made its position clear years ago). The reason they stopped taking US players now is because they have more to lose than Cereus should online gaming become regulated in the US (almost sure to happen eventually, though maybe years in the future).

So Cereus doesn't need to be magic to "fix" this. They will continue to break US gaming laws as they have for years. Cashouts/deposits will probably be more of a hassle, but I'll be shocked if they don't figure something out.

I think it's a terrible idea to deposit on any poker sites that cater to U.S. players right now. The big boys just fell, who's next? If there was ever a site that would leave an not give players their money it would be cereus.

LOL....see.....still has to be their fault huh? And I'm Joe because I pointed out the two big guns got caught doing something not so legal?????

I'm Canadian resident living in the U.S., I'll reverse back my Canadian address as it seems that when they start processing withdrawals again it should be easier as a Canadian. I think U.S. customers are SOL, I don't see what bank would be willing with work with any poker site right now. 75 bank accounts and certain bank processors were indicted as well. I don't see U.S. customers getting their money soon if really at all. So really playing there as if it is business as usual is just delusional, if you think you ain't getting that money anyway let me just donk it then that would be your choice (that's what cereus and non US players want), I believe it is just a waste of time to continue to play in any of these sites without a clear end in sight.

Why would you go through a bank when you could just deal with WU?

Think.

whats this wu u speak of?

possibly the union to the west

Western Union.

how long ago did they take away the WU option for payouts?

Yesterday? Maybe this morning? Whenever they disabled all cashouts.

not everyone has the WU option available to them. I've emailed support and they've stated that it's only available to those who have used it in the past.

I just started playing at Absolute from the beginning of this month and made enough where I would like to cash out and then this disaster strikes.

If someone who has cashed out today through bank wire could keep me updated whether it works or not I would really appreciate it.

Tom, when you say they've disabled cashouts are you talking about UB? Because although I haven't used it, I still have the options to cash out via check, check by courier, or bank wire.

I just tried cashing out and I got a pop up window saying that it currently is not available..... blah

I'm guessing that will probably be relaxed going forward if they cannot or will not use banks.

There's always the send cash in an envelope method, which FTP used to get me the last little bit of rakeback that I earned before I was kicked (from WA state).

When did they disable all cashouts?? I talked to support and they said everything was fine. I then requested my cashout thru transfer and got processed fairly quickly

Dunno what time but I got this:

It's possible they can still manually cashout, I dunno, the support page won't load for me.

tomveil for mod

Im on live support right now

Good let us know what's going on.

Well, this is what they get for not having faith in the Cerius brand.

They said all withdrawls, deposits, etc. are not available

My withdrawl has been processed tho which sucks I cant cancel it and I have no idea if it'll just be denied and put back into my acct or siezed by the feds lol sick beat

Damn feds, there's no WAY they could take my whole bankroll at the actual table! Fricken cheaters.

If the funds were seized, would cereus reimburse you or would they say too bad you're sh*t out of luck?

Also, as far as Mac users go, I have been able to log on to the site using "Crossover", which is a program that emulates windows. I'm pretty sure they have a free trial available, google it.

Probably the latter.....but it'd probabaly be in their best interest to just do a trace on all processed payouts and get them back into acct asap