How to Play Online Poker Using Paypal
(Pay Pal)
In the early days of online poker,
Paypal was the most popular deposit method. It was (and still
is) the most trusted, widespread, and most marketed of any online
payment solution. However, once the legal ground of online gaming
became murkier and the US government actively started pursuing the
issue of online poker, Paypal refused to conduct business with any
gambling operation of any kind.
The fact is that there is no way
to get money from your Pay Pal account to an online poker site. Any
poker room or website claiming to offer online poker Paypal payments
is violating their all-encompassing Terms of Service agreement. It
simply isn't smart to attempt to use your Paypal account for
gambling as your money will likely be seized, your account disabled,
and an investigation may follow.
On the bright side, there is a much
easier solution than trying to play online poker with Paypal. Simply
use the same credit card you used at Pay Pal to deposit. While you
might be skeptical of this method as your card has likely been
declined at poker rooms in the past, there is a growing number of
online poker rooms that will not block US credit card
transactions. From personal experience, we can verify that
the following poker rooms accepted our credit card deposits from
major banks even though the same cards had been declined at other
sites. The entire process took less than a minute.
The bottom line: Poker Paypal
deposits are not an option. Instead, use your US credit card
block-free at the following poker rooms. You won't have to deal with
an e-wallet, worry about your Paypal account getting frozen, or wait
around to verify an account. Any US-issued Visa or Mastercard is
pretty much a lock to be accepted. You can do what you want with
your own money without a hassle. That's saying a lot in the current
online poker industry.
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