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Originally Posted by angel zera
What’s the deal with “restricted states?” I live in NJ, and play on the regulated sites. But I made an account with ACR (gave correct Jersey address and everything) and played a few MTTs just fine after depositing $1000 via BTC.
I suppose I’m essentially asking—will this be the sort of deal where when I finally decide to cash out $10k or whatever, I get hit with a “Sorry! Your funds have been seized because you were playing from a restricted state!” Can anyone playing from a “restricted state” with experience chime in here?
I can't say anything for sure yet since I'm also new, but the grapevine has told me that it hasn't been a problem depo/cashing out as long as it's with crypto. I live in a restricted state as well, and before I deposited I voluntarily submitted my ID and address verification stuff, like you would for cashing out, and got my account quote mode certified end quote mode. I know that probably doesn't give me any actual legal recourse, but I feel like at that step they're formally recognizing my location and allowing me to proceed, so they would have to expose themselves as pretty huge pieces of **** to confiscate a balance for that reason at some point in the future.
The only time I've ever actually been kicked off a site for location after mistakenly being allowed in, I got an apology and my original deposit refunded to me even though I was down a little bit in my first few games. Conversely, the only time I've ever had money stolen from me by an online site (was it Lock poker? Idr), they just disappeared and didn't bother with excuses. I feel like that's a decent paralell for what to expect with a big, popular site like this. If they're big enough pieces of **** to allow new members to TOS breach just so they could take advantage of it later to steal money, then they're probably big enough pieces of **** to just straight up steal from all of us and disappear. So if I don't really expect the latter, I'm not too worried about the former either. As long as they have pathways to get me my money, like crypto, I for one feel fairly safe as "just another player". (Although that's not say I wouldn't have a change of heart and start stress shitting over it if I suddenly binked 6 figures or something.)