Hello,

Few days ago one of my friends won 800 usd on tournament. As I was watching that game live at my house he decided to send me 100 usd to my account as a gift.

I wanted to withdraw money and got this message:


"After a routine review of your latest withdrawal it has come to our attention that most of the funds that you withdrew came directly from a transfer received from another player on our site.


Our transfer tool is only meant to help players fund their accounts when they are unable to deposit with deposit options currently available to them. All funds added to your account via transfer must be used to play at our tables.


We are restricted by our license agreement with Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) and this prevents us from being able to offer a real money transfer service for the purpose of withdrawing.


You should use a money transferring service outside of our site for transfers which are not meant to be played at our tables or games."


So ... what would be my best bet? To send back money to my friend - he cashes out 100 usd and gives it to me?

Or is this rake related? How much rake should I make in order to withdraw 100 usd?

Thanks

Not the replies you wanted here I guess:

https://www.cardschat.com/forum/poke.../#post-6903798

Yeah, no one seems to know exactly what has to be done. They are more intrigued by lecturing.

So I tried another site. Where I might get answer. As mailing Pokerstars resulted in ZERO repsondance so far.

I don't know about you but hide and seek is not my forte nor my fetish.

The last time I got a transfer and tried to withdraw or transfer it to a 3rd player, it said I need to wager that much in games first. Not rake that much of course, but just the total sum of pots played needs to match it, so just playing a few all-in pots at PLO50 was enough to wager the $700 pretty quickly and unlock the transfers.

Thanks, actually a nice tip.

You think this would work with sports betting also? As it's part of PokerStars?