great post ^^^^^^

I might be moving to the US in the near future, currently reside in Peru.
I'd like to know if me having access to my foreign bank accounts is helpful at all?
Do I have more options regarding sites?

On the up and up, no. If you're physically in the USA you'll have access to US friendly sites and that's all.

Very helpful thread. Got out of poker (for the most part) after black friday. Been restricted to the terrible local casino and cash games. Would really like to get back in on a more regular basis.

Cool, see you at the tables! Something to consider:

I'd say that the competition at 10nl/25nl online is as tough or tougher than 1,2 or 1,3 live. But go for it, playing online is awesome for getting good at poker. No other way to get in the volume.

GL!

Yeah, Like I said, I used to play online a lot, from the early 2000's on, until... well you know. Unfortunately I moved to an area where the local casino is barely that, and the closest decent card room is 2 hours away. Thanks for the heads up!

Well, it could be helpful in the sense that you could register now from Peru, and fund your accounts on the sites that service players physically located within the US easily via ewallets. Whenever you return home, aka out of the USA, you could then withdraw your winnings in bulk much more quickly via those same ewallets you deposited with. **Note that you should NEVER access Skrill, Neteller, etc in the USA for offshore gaming transactions.

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I would probably go down a bit lower to even 2c/5c lol im not even kidding. Well there are some MSNL games that pop up every once in awhile on on intertops and bovada that will give you similar "live" action haha

it's frustrating that the sites aren't linked in the OP nor the OP of what you're clicking on nor do I have any clue of what bonuses are or rakeback or not or how to get them or deposit or anything etc etc unless I read an entire thread mostly having things that don't answer my question but were probably yet asked a million times. I get that none of them are trying to get people on their site from here apparently but that's all you get these days... I'm looking for a new site to play on and all I'm seeing is a bunch of sites who appear to not want me to join.

1, Sites aren't linked because that would constitute advertising. They'd have to pay for said advertising.

2, There is a search feature on 2+2 (see middle of the upper menu bar)

3, Furthermore there is a "search this thread" feature to the upper left of this, and every thread.

4, If you can't find what you're looking for, feel free to ask. There are a few knowledgeable people in this thread who will answer your questions honestly.



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Quick question...so if I play on Americas Card Room, True poker, or Black Chip Poker it is essentially all the same since they share a player pool? Each site has it's own promotions but they share a player pool correct? And any deposits or withdraws is going to and coming from the same parent company?

Also if I'm right about the above I would have a final question...

I see that rake back deals vary in this network does the amount of rake each skin or aforementioned poker rooms also vary?

Essentially correct. All three share the same promotions and support staff, though. The only real difference is color schemes. Depositing and withdrawing are processed through all three the same way.

All three offer either Elite Benefits (RB % shifts based on play) or flat 27% standard rakeback. One skin doesn't offer more (or less) than the other.

what is the best site to get info on llsnl

Just thought I'd update with my journey in online poker.

I find that I don't play well on bovada, for some reason I tend to be more reckless and gambley on anonymous tables, and not being able to recognize regs doesn't allow me to adjust long term.

Full flush I want to like, but something about the software bugs me. It's not quite as fast as Merge, which makes a difference. Also the traffic for MTTs is pretty slow. And as I mentioned before, tables are 10 max instead of 9, and that is one too many for me.

So I find my self splitting between Merge and Seals. Merge is def the best software and traffic, seals software sucks but the rake is low and the cash outs are easy. Easy enough to have a table or two from both sites up at the same time.

Not in a thread about online poker rooms. Out of ignorance I had to Google llsnl and the first thing I saw was a forum dedicated to it...


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I actually LIKE Bovoda for it's anonymity - last thing I want is some jackass with a database of 1 mil+ players micro-targeting me on one of the 20 tables he's playing live -

the HU trackers and crap that people are using now - if you don't join in you are almost a fish on the spot - this way I don't have to worry about it

RB

Bovada reg here (200NL-400NL). I'm looking to find a second site, which I thought would be Merge until I looked at this thread and saw that winners are getting banned/having tables capped and/or bonuses revoked. Makes me hesitant to deposit.

For someone like me, who is just looking to supplement their action, a 4 table cap is fine but I don't like the long-term trend that Merge is setting with these policies. WPN may be poised to become the #2 site for US players.

Thoughts on Merge vs WPN as a whole and specifically for MSNL? I know Merge has slightly more traffic. I guess what I'm asking is, what does WPN offer me that Merge doesn't?

WPN has rakeback, which is kinda nice. and they aren't targeting winning players. they also have transfers, which helps with moving money around.

For someone who has cleared their bovada initial deposit bonus, would you guys suggest continuing to deposit there or going to another site like carbon to clear their initial deposit bonus? Or is it really difficult to clear the bonus on a site like carbon with only $60 deposited?

Carbon's bonus doesn't clear particularly fast, but you should find plenty of games with which to clear it.


Merge is not revoking players bonuses or banning anyone from the network. They are however instituting table caps for some players.

Merge has solid amounts of MSNL action.

WPN offers more rewards than Merge, at the cost of nittier games. Think of WPN as the opposite of game quality to Bovada where you play, and Merge as somewhere in between the two.


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I'm sorry, I meant for watching videos on topics for llsnl

Right, which still doesn't make a lot of sense to ask in a thread about which online poker sites US players can play at - he was letting you know we have a forum dedicated to LLSNL, assuming you mean Live Low Stakes Now Limit.

Im not so sure it is possible to make broad brush comparisons between bovada, merge, and wpn. Ive noticed different quality of players at the different levels.

Of the 3, bovada seems to have closest quality of players between levels. Wpn seems to be on the opposite end of that. I haven't been on merge for about a month. Pretty sure the landscape has changed quite a bit though.

The situation at merge reminds me a little of what happened at everleaf when they capped players winnings per day, and restricted players by a star system. Players left, and the good recs were the beneficiaries. *** note *** im not implying in any way that merge is on the same path as everleaf, only to what happens when winning regs abandon there seats.

visa gift cards been working on carbon?

The answer for this and all US-facing sites is, sometimes. Credit card processors change rapidly. What worked today, may not work tomorrow, but might work again next week.

The types of prepaid cards with the highest success level are those that offer a card-holder to send off said card and get one back in their own name (as opposed to a blank nameless card).

A better alternative might be o spend the money on a WU or MG transfer. Those have a 99%+ success rate. Almost all US facing sites, including Carbon, will refund the fees for those types of cash transactions when deposit amounts are => $300 USD


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