This is a thing that concerns me. Players in the same room with different accounts. They play a 400NL game and I wind up monkey in the middle. Here is one who can't understand why there would be anything wrong with the two of them playing together. I guess the WSOP will let them sit next to each other and look at each other's cards. GMAB

you think Bovada cares enough about 3.5k to illegitimately hold it from you? There are guys here talking about winning 100k in a month.

Concerning. I don't touch Coinbase as I feel their fees are outrageous. And as it's somewhat related, I would like to take this opportunity to bump my post.

I understand your concern with people in the same room playing a 400NL holdem cashgame table but in a mtt with many tables I find it hardly an advantage. People playing in the same room in the same 600 field MTT shouldn't "warrant suspicious activity". My brother's account also got temporary disabled too because he played at my house. THIS is what is corrupt and very shady. 15 days ago they didn't care who was playing but now that I requested a cashout all of a sudden my account is under investigation for suspicious activity??

I play at my buddy's house occasionally. We've played in the same mtts but make sure to never be at the same cash tables or sngs and have never had an issue.

Now if you only play at the same house and play an identical mtt schedule, I can see why that would look like multi accounting.

maz -i would email them just to be on the safe side and tell them that ocassionally you play in tournaments together

chasincoin- calm down 3.5k isnt a big win and is peanuts to bovada. It just took me 3 weeks to receive a check from the request date, sometimes they take a bit longer and all the security verifications you are going through are completely standard.

requested cashout june 9th, approved on june 10th.

received today, june 21st, deposited, cleared

BTC approved morning of 15th finally hit wallet today.

The plot starts to thicken.....

At which BTC price? From the 15th or?

The current price at the time of processing.

They canceled the original one from the 15th due to a "technical error" on their end.

Was this for a check? I had requested a check on June 9th and am still waiting on it.

Sounds to me like this probably has to do with them protecting against multi-accounting

Kids...we are witnessing the re-incarnation of NetTeller

I'm new to Bitcoin. Was successfully able to deposit via instructions from EndTheFed (Thanks!!). I called Bovada asking about other withdrawals and then asked if they charge a fee for more than one Bitcoin withdrawal per month. Rep said Bovada doesn't charge fees for Bitcoin withdrawals, but Bitcoin (I guess he meant Blockchain/Circle) will take 10% of the withdrawal. He couldn't clearly explain why. Can anyone explain this, or was the Rep confused?

Do you have your recovery phrase written down? If so, you should be able to use that to recreate your wallet on their site. Or you can recreate it on another wallet client like Multibit... that's a desktop wallet that you run on your computer.

I have used Multibit, and used the recovery phrase to transfer a Blockchain.info wallet to Multibit. I haven't used Electrum myself, but it's legit.

You're only exposed to fluctuations for a very short time. They give you the current exchange rate at the second they send your withdrawal. And as soon as it confirms in your personal wallet you can send it to your exchange and convert it back in to USD.

Yeah, that's the thing... even in the rare stories I've read about they there's no way to know what that person was involved in and whether they were telling the whole story.

Click the "Add+" button to create a new subsection in your wallet. Then when you click "Receive" inside of that section you will get a new address. The added benefit of doing this is that it allows you to label each section with the date of your withdrawal for you own record keeping.



Don't pay attention to what Blockchain's wallet displays as the USD value. Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it - and you aren't able to sell bitcoin to them. Their exchange rate will be different from your exchange's... and that's the only one that matters.

Hmm, the only transactions you've done are with Bovada?

They charge 1% for their retail side, broker style business but they also have a full service bitcoin exchange. I believe the fee there is only a 0.25% taker fee and 0% for maker orders.

Come on lol... They arent gonna give you the run around for 3500$ lol

Yep, and if you get set up with one of the bitcoin funded debit cards you can have cash in hand within minutes of Bovada sending your withdrawal.

From poker site to cash in hand in about 24 hours for free is some pre-UIGEA level stuff.

They were confused.

Sending a bitcoin transaction requires a fee of about 5 or 6 cents, and the two exchanges recommended in this thread only charge 1% and 0%.

Got any recs for this. PM me if more appropriate. Thanks.

Everybody who has been helped by endthefed should send at least $3 right now to his bitcoin wallet. He's too nice of a guy to ask, so I'll do it for him. For all the selfless work and time he has put in to help random strangers, I think he deserves it.


endthefed gimmie your address so I can throw ya something.

Thanks. The problem I'm having with blockchain is that it's supposed to be sending emails to confirm my login (can't login without doing this atm) but no emails are being sent.

Furthermore, as a workaround to this problem, I used the Reset 2FA feature which essentially allows you to change your registered email address. After doing this seemingly successfully, I am still getting no emails, upon trying to login on blockchain, at either my old or new email address, nor am I getting the emails to my old email address which I'm supposed to be getting after 2FA Reset is attempted on my account.

Their support is completely ignoring that their system is completely broke in this regard, at least in my experience, and sending me useless responses.

I do have the seed words written down, and perhaps I'll attempt to login to my blockchain wallet that way (I CAN get in via their android app which I fortunately paired before all this drama started but its functionality is of course limited relative to logging in via browser).

If you have other thoughts on this situation specifically I'm all ears. I'm totally new to bitcoin, and I remain concerned, honestly, with even restoring my wallet on blockchain.info as it clearly has some gross technical issues, and I don't need any (more) problems in accessing my money. EDIT: I think even if I try to get back into my bc wallet with seed words, I may still have the same problem. The seed words are really for if you lose your password/id if I'm not mistaken, and that's not the issue here.

I'm only using a wallet as an intermediary between circle/bitpay and bovada, not doing any other bitcoin business, so perhaps installing wallet software is overkill.

If I were to install multibit or electrum, is there anything, outside of the basic instructions I will find, that I need to do to for optimal setup and use?

There are only two of them to my knowledge, and this is the best one that it seems everyone is using, incl. myself.

https://bitpay.com/visa

I've had a good experience w it so far. It's very simple and it works as advertised.

2 hours later is pretty epic. The quickest I've received one was within 24 hours- Which I was more than thrilled with.

After that though, I requested another withdrawal almost right away. I had been reading that even though it says you are only allowed 1 withdrawal request per 5 days, that people had been requesting within that time, and still getting them processed.

So I requested another one and didn't hear anything for 5 days. I decided to call up Bovada and ask them if anything was wrong. The woman on the phone said I hadn't received it yet because I requested one within the 5 day waiting period and that I should be getting it within 48 hours after the 5 days from the last one processed had been up.

I asked when the 5 day waiting period starts- Was it from the moment I request it, or after the last one is approved? She said from When it was approved.

After I hung up, 12 hours later I got my withdrawal processed- That ended up being exactly 24 hours after the 5 day waiting period from my last approved withdrawal was up.

Whenever I read about an exchange raising questions about where the money comes from- it's always from coinbase. Has circle ever done this ? If not, it's just another added reason why I prefer Circle over coinbase.

No but the only gaming transactions I've done have been w/ Blockchain, not Coinbase. My first reaction was that I had just been careless and accidentally withdrawn to coinbase but Ive gone over the transactions and I'm not seeing it.