There is a process called e-checks. You just have to link it to a checking account, and once you do they will give you money instantly with no money in your account, but if you do that you get overdraft fees from your bank and next time you try to load your account it wont do it automaticly, they will take 10 days to process and verify funds. So you dont want to ruin the relationship with them, nothing like wanting to play and you cant get your money for another 10 days.

Now as far as withdrawling money, I know pokerstars and fulltilt do cashouts by check. They say it can take up to 15 business days, but when I cash out I usually get the check in 3-5 days. I think they do business with companys in different regions of the world. If you do a cashout they will notifiy the closes check makeing company and send you a check. When I first did it I was bummed I wasnt going to see a check for 15 business days, but like 3 days later I got a check. The funny thing is Ive gotten 2 diiferent checks, one from wells fargo and the other from some other random bank. O well still cashed the same.

Ultimate bet will accually do a deposit with your bank card, I filled out some info and when I tryed to do it myself a message came up asking me to call them,you have to call them and they do the processing over the phone and it worked , it just comes out a different name on your bank statment. I guess thats to trick the bank or they wont authorize it.

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HDYCT

My favorite site now after all the banking problems is still ultimate bet. They are reliable, with speedy cashouts and great gameplay

How do you cashout through ultimate bet that is speedy? do they directly deposit back into your bank account?

I just signed up on Full Tilt. They gave me a 100% match on my money, up to $600! Too bad I dont have quite that much to gamble with online. The only thing is you have to earn your money. But if you are frugal with your investment you can easily earn that 100% match within a few days.

Well good luck. You can PM me your screen name. Maybe Ill do a player search and catch you on the tables. What have you played so far? When I play Hold em, I play the 3 dollar knockout tourneys, its double stacked so you start out with 3000 chips, plus its a turbo so it finishes in a decent amount of time. Ring games can be up and down, I feel I lose more money in ring games hold em than any other form of poker. Sngs or tourneys I tend to do better in hold em. But, you know I am on a omaha o8 binge.

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HDTCT

Bodog is a really good site, and has alot of different skill leveled players.

I am a big fan of Bodog, in that it offers a one-stop shop for all the betting I do whether on the card table with other players or for sports games/horses. A lot of people will complain about this site giving all the cards to a few players just to oust players faster (thus making rakes faster=more money) but I say what goes around comes around. YES, there are bad beats in poker, but there are also bad beats that you are on the good side of. Bodog does have it's fair share of bad beats, as does any online poker place, but there is a lot to be said for how they evenly distribute these bad beats to various players.

Just a warning about Bodog....they had a lot of money seized the other day ....here's link to article...

Feds Hound Bodog - Forbes.com

I like fulltilt.com and pokerstars.com. I haven't explored many sites because I'm the type who gets attached to a site and sticks with it.

Wow, thank you very much for the heads up. I am actually going to get rid of my bodog account by the weekend, because it seems to be one thing after the other with this website, and I feel it will be shut down fairly soon. Thanks again for the article, I will see you all on another site!

I have been playing @ Pureplay.com. It's a subscription site. They have several cash tourneys daily and they don't cost you a dime to play.
There is also a $1000 daily $2000 weekly and $5000 weekly. Play is kinda soft, once you learn to pick up the newbs, it's kind of a cakewalk. I have not had to pay my monthly for about 6 months.
The deal is, you are "given" 100 poker points @ midnite of any day that you lose all your poker points. Then you use these poker points to buy into the real cash tourneys. You play in some tourneys to accumulate poker points to buy into the real tourneys. I have personally accrued more than 182,000 poker points. So I can buy into absolutely any tourney i want to without thought of losing anything. It's not even a difficult thing to do if you play any kind of poker at all.
They also run WSOP tourneys.You can potentially win a $10,000 seat for....$19 a month.
Don't get me wrong, I still play real casino sites ( hey, ring games are where the everyday cash is at ) But if your not on your game or broke, you can still go to Pureplay and win something for almost nothin. Give it a peek.

And if ya like it (wink wink) put my name in the who refferred ya space when ya sign up. My name is FlSHHOOK thats all caps except the I which is a lower case L.
And if ya see me @ a table....fold, I don't lie