Alternative funding methods for US players

[Oldgzer]

My wife made a deposit last night using my Washington Mutual Bank debit card (mastercard endorsed), no problem. She was playing a $20 + 2 SnG within a few minutes.

If WaMu is in your neighborhood, they offer free checking (no min balance). You could set up a poker/checking acct and fund your illegal (U.S. players) hobby through your local bank.

Hope this helps!

[Casey ATB]

Has anybody yet found a quick and economical way to fund their poker accounts? Epassporte is so slow (10 to 12 days to complete the transaction.

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

Wells Fargo Debit Card.

Edit: Still works, used it today (April 17, 2007).

[khaosanroad]

A debit card from a small local bank may work.

[vyni]

I'm very surprised to hear the WF and WaMu worked. Sweet. Of course, it's short term I'm afraid for any US based institutions that might be working. Whenever those now overdue industry regs are in place...

[JohnnyCache]

I was able to fund on Fulltilt with a gift2go visa from walgreens.

[arras]

I did an instant deposit last night from my CC through epassporte. I thought it was going to take a few weeks. Easy capeasy.

[Casey ATB]

I did an instant deposit last night from my CC through epassporte. I thought it was going to take a few weeks. Easy capeasy.

All credit cards I've seen have terribly bloated rates for cash advances, so I would'nt use that method of deposit. Is your CC also a debit card? If so, That would probably mitigate some of the charges.

I recently made a deposit to epassporte directly from my bank, and it took nine days from the time the money was taken from my account for it to become available in epassporte. An electronic cash transaction shouldn't take that much time.

[Kalbelgarion]

I went to my local Safeway grocery store and bought a $100 All-Access Visa Gift Card for $105.95. Went though PokerStars in about 15 seconds. Instant poker money, and still cheaper than the 8 percent Neteller used to charge.

[dazz057]

http://www.paytrucard.com/

Been a lurker here for quite some time and found a chance to finally give something back.

The above URL will take you to a Visa Card site where u can order a new visa Debit/Credit card. The card works at all the major poker sites regardless of where you call home (I live in the Dallas area and have successfully used it at PS, FTP, PP, and UB). It can be loaded directly from your bank or other cards. The loading fees are minimal and the best part is it gets a pin # so you can use it to withdraw winnings at any ATM with a Visa logo.

You do not have to wait for the card to come in the mail, you get your card #, expiration, and CVS code the day you sign up and can be making deposits within minutes. This is by far the best method that I have found for funding my poker habit.

I hope this helps some people. Enjoy!

[lwestatbus]

I just tried to deposti with a Bank of America debit card and it was declined. I see that most of the posts here about debit/prepaid card deposits were from much earlier in the year. Has anyone in the US had a successful experience funding Poker Stars in October or November?

Has anyone used PS's eCheck option successfully? See Det_Jimmy's eCheck thread in this forum.

[BeerWench13]

The hubby made a deposit into his FT account with a Fleet Visa card with no issues. I just scored a nice win at a live MTT, so I'm thinking about putting some of that online. I was going to deposit at PS, so I'll let you know how that goes. I haven't used the echeck option, but I was considering it.

[lwestatbus]

I just completed a successful deposit with PokerStars' eCheck option on a US bank. (Nov '07)

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

WF Debit still worked as of this weekend (12/1/07).

[BeerWench13]

I just completed a successful deposit with PokerStars' eCheck option on a US bank

Good to know. Now I should be able to redeposit directly from my poker account instead of having to trasfer funds from one account to another.