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05-09-2023 , 09:06 AM
I'm an American who currently lives in Argentina.

Until recently, I've played on Suprema after learning about it in Brazil, but due to issues with being able to make consistent withdrawals without tax issues for my agent due to me not having a Brazilian bank account, my agent and I decided it would be best for me to just withdrawal my money, and look for another place to play.

Being an American, the obvious spots were ignition and global, but both of these places are region locked for me since I'm in Argentina.

I started thinking of switching to live play, but a combination of high rake (5% uncapped, raked preflop, and in split pots) and the instability of the currency/needing to pay to exchange pesos to dollars after every winning night to avoid currency risk, it doesn't seem like a great option either.

Tldr: what would be my best option to play as an American who is region locked from most sites due to living outside of the US? Poker Bros seems like a possibility, but I don't have to much confidence in the Asian app type games. I'd also ideally like to find a place where I could move up in stakes, as the highest stake holdem games you can find on Suprema consistently are equivalent to roughly 20/40 cent USD. Softness of games, lower rake, and likelihood of being able to cash out, and availability of lower to mid stakes games are my top priorities.

Thanks in advance for your comments

Last edited by Timmy paper stacks; 05-09-2023 at 09:09 AM. Reason: Added a few things
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05-09-2023 , 10:06 AM
All the apps are similar. PokerBros is a US based company, by the way.

PPPoker, X-Poker, Upoker, ClubGG, Pokerhub, etc... I avoid pokerrr2 and C.O.P., which is a Chinese app.
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05-09-2023 , 10:10 AM
I know it's a US company, i thought asian apps was just a colloquial term for these types of apps like PPP, but pokerbros is still like the other poker apps, correct?

Is it at least easier to find higher games than .20 cent/.40 cent for NLHE?

I'd like to avoid these apps as well, but if it's my only option (not counting ACR, don't think I can be profitable there currently), it's my only option.
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05-09-2023 , 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Timmy paper stacks
I know it's a US company, i thought asian apps was just a colloquial term for these types of apps like PPP, but pokerbros is still like the other poker apps, correct?

Is it at least easier to find higher games than .20 cent/.40 cent for NLHE?

I'd like to avoid these apps as well, but if it's my only option (not counting ACR, don't think I can be profitable there currently), it's my only option.
Personally speaking, I was super hesitant to play the apps at first. It took me over a year to give it a honest go. I now have close to 80% of my volume on the apps and remainder on private networks. The games are much better. It all comes down to your agent's integrity.
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05-09-2023 , 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by a dewd
Personally speaking, I was super hesitant to play the apps at first. It took me over a year to give it a honest go. I now have close to 80% of my volume on the apps and remainder on private networks. The games are much better. It all comes down to your agent's integrity.
Thank you for your response. And what is the highest stakes that you can consistently multitable on pokerbros?
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05-09-2023 , 11:30 AM
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Thank you for your response. And what is the highest stakes that you can consistently multitable on pokerbros?
PB has $10/20 tables in big clubs you couldld do that. ClubGG has some private clubs that are as high as $500/1000
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05-09-2023 , 11:33 AM
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PB has $10/20 tables in big clubs you couldld do that. ClubGG has some private clubs that are as high as $500/1000
I can't play clubgg, I'm American, but 10/20 USD is still way above the level I'm at.
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05-09-2023 , 11:54 AM
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I can't play clubgg, I'm American, but 10/20 USD is still way above the level I'm at.
You can play ClubGG. It's GGPoker's app to compete with PB and all the others. Same setup and model as Suprema. You can play GG Poker from Argentina too
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