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Originally Posted by StackJackin
arent there cash out issues on carbon/merge?
They seem to be a bit faster overall, but past few years it's slowed down in late winter/early spring...probably because of the heavy sports betting for the superbowl and such. Traffic has died down alot because of a lot of regs getting restricted, but I guess things would be pretty soft for whatever games you can get to fill. And if you win much or just a little too often, be prepared to get limited to as few as one or maybe even no tables at all. It's still worth a try I guess, they let you cash out even if you get fully restricted.
For OP and whoever else needed it...Bovada has the best traffic by far, for US facing sites anyway. No rakeback except for a player points system that amounts to almost nothing. Every now and then they have a few decent bonus things, like the 12 days of turbos thats just finishing up. You got up to three $22 tourney tickets and one $7, which didn't require all that much playing to earn. Cashing out is a matter of weeks rather than months like it is on merge, and one free cash out a month is pretty nice compared to only one free cash out a year on merge.
WPN has the best rewards program and seems the most player-friendly site lately, I'm surprised o8 traffic is still pretty low. The on-demand MTTs are a pretty nice idea, they start when 6 people register and have late registration for anyone else to enter. Jackpot tables might get added for o8 soon also. No idea how cash outs are there, I haven't played there much yet but I hear the bitcoin method they offer is the fastest way to cash out for any US site. You have to make a deposit with this method first and withdrawing via bitcoin has had a few negative issues for the sites that have tried it so far, there are threads that explain everything so read up on it first before jumping into it.
All 3 sites have their own different pros and cons for o8 and just poker in general, but each one is currently worth at least a minimum deposit to try them out so people can find whatever suits them the best. Just try not to keep more money than you are comfortable having on them, especially for merge. Keep your deposits/BR as small as possible, but enough to where you never have to deposit more than once a day because it will likely send your bank account into whatever kind of fraud-protections they happen to use. Unless you're playing high stakes ring games on bovada, you don't need a huge BR for o8 and big first-time deposit bonuses take too long to clear for the time allowed anyway so try not to let them influence your decisions too much. A pre-paid reloadable visa card works on all 3 and is the safest way to go, unless you're going the bitcoin/bank wire route.