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Its still very difficult for USA players to get money into their accounts to play. Most of the third party depositers including epass are no longer an option for USA players. My experience is that the larger poker sites have gotten very sneaky in helping USA players get money into their accounts. For example, last week I fired up UltimateBet and decided to play some. My first couple of credit cards got declined, even ones that had worked before. I got messages to call in to UB's customer service. After talking to them and trying a bunch of credit cards for them to manually process over the phone, I finally got one to go through, what a pain. They told me that the charge would show up as Home Supply Store and that it would be for $499.75 and not the $500 (so it wouldn't trigger any suspicion) The lady on the phone told me that if my credit card called to tell them that I authorized the charge and not to mention anything about it being for gambling.
Obviously they have gotten very sneaky by not letting the credit card institutions know that the charges are for gambling purposes. I'm not sure how long they are going to get away with this, but certainly they are circumventing the law.
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