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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
I was going through the process of setting up a payfiniti account but didn’t feel comfortable giving them my full SSN so I guess my options are pay for events as I go with a credit card (3% fee) or bring cash.
Those are the only 2 options if I don’t want to give PayFiniti my SSN and don’t have time to hand the cage a cashiers check and wait a business day or more, correct? I was hoping I could wire or ACH the WSOP cage money but it says to go through bravo and bravo says go through PayFiniti.
Doubtful you can wire directly to a casino cage and walk away with cash. They will give you gaming chips, and the expectation will be that you use them to gamble in the casino. You can probably play for a short period and then cash out. They'll know, and will make a note of it, but unlikely they will do anything other than reject future wire transfers from you.
And that's if they accept the wire to begin with. There's a chance they reject it outright if you don't contact them first and let them know it's coming and why. As Akashenk mentioned, it is highly dependent on players card rating/tier.
The cashiers check info was discussed in this thread several pages back...if you email wsop first with the check info (and maybe a copy of it) then it will minimize the amount of waiting time when you arrive with the physical check.
Fwiw, Payfiniti is owned by Bravo. Thousands have used it so far during the series and if there were major issues we certainly would have heard about by now. I understand concerns about just giving out ss# and other info, but this is who wsop has partnered with for electronic payment processing, so it's going to be around for awhile.