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Full Tilt Poker Deposit Methods – Cash Transfer In many countries, you can use a simple local bank transfer to get your money on board. This is essentially a bank-wire - depending on your bank these can take a few days.
Fulltilt Poker offers you some great options for getting your money in and out - including a unique ability to transfer your cash from PokerStars.
This article outlines the 4 main methods of depositing your money into Full Tilt Poker. Nowadays, US players are not allowed to play here - Bovada are currently the number one US site (by a long way!) and so I'll suggest US readers check out this article instead to find out the best ways to get your money on board there.
- I used my debit card the last time i deposited on full tilt.now i am in the opposite dilemma trying to figure out the best way to get money off of tilt. Check reached me in 8 days.took 3 days to process/clear.
- On May 17, 2016, Full Tilt migrated to the PokerStars platform with which it now shares player traffic, giving Full Tilt players a wider variety of cash games, a much bigger tournaments.
Full Tilt are known as the home of the pros and are the world’s 4th largest poker site, with excellent software and a great game selection. The effect of being owned by the same people who run PokerStars is already noticable, with many major improvements to the software client and new games such as Flipout Tournaments. A recent innovation from Full Tilt is the introduction of ‘Single Click Deposit’, this involves setting up you preferred deposit methods at Full Tilt so that you can use them instantly via the cashier any time you wish.
Full Tilt Poker Deposit Methods – Credit And Debit Cards
Credit and Debit cards are still the quickest and easiest way of making your deposit from most countries. They are almost always accepted first time, and your deposit will be available to play right away. The main brands accepted by Full Tilt are Visa and MasterCard. Pre-paid Visa cards will usually work, however I would recommend that you speak to the support team at Full Tilt before you purchase one. They will be able to advise you on the best brands or alternate deposit methods.
PaySafeCard is a virtual Visa card which you load up with funds, and then use like a regular debit card. This is ideal for players who either don't have a card of their own, or prefer to keep poker and their bank account separated.
One thing to note is that there are stricter withdrawal rules for credit and debit card withdrawals than other methods. MasterCards often do not allow for withdrawals at all, and you may find that you'll need to take at least the amount you deposited back onto your Visa card before you can use any other method.
For more information specific to bank (debit cards) see this article covering UK Visa Debit poker deposits
Full Tilt Poker Deposit Methods – eWallet Services
This is the method I recommend for making your deposits and withdrawals at FTP.
The idea with eWallets is to create a virtual account which sits between your bank(s) and online poker sites. There are a lot of services available these days, with Skrill (formerly MoneyBookers), PayPal and Neteller being the best known. What you can do is keep a proportion of your poker bankroll in an eWallet at all times. When you get a bonus or special offer from a site, you'll have the funds to take advantage of this quickly. What is more, you'll be safe from any poker site going down too.
Full Tilt accept Neteller, Skrill and EntroPay... my preferred wallet (due to lower fees) is Skrill.
Full Tilt Poker Deposit Methods – Cash Transfer
In many countries, you can use a simple local bank transfer to get your money on board. This is essentially a bank-wire - depending on your bank these can take a few days. Bank wires are ideal for larger sums, you'll often pay a fixed fee at your bank, avoiding the percentage fee charged by many 3rd parties.
I no longer see Western Union or MoneyGram deposits listed at the Full Tilt website, if you do not have access to any of the above methods, you could always ask support about this.
Full Tilt Poker Deposit Methods – PokerStars Transfer
Now that Full Tilt and PokerStars are owned by the same company, it is possible to transfer funds between the two sites. In fact, there have been extra bonuses and incentives available to do just that. These were in the direction of Stars to Full Tilt and designed to get FTP up the site rankings. If you want to take advantage of this then you can open a PokerStars account (use Marketing Code PSP3108 when you register and Bonus Code STARS600 when you deposit), enjoy the welcome bonuses there, and then wait for a mail offering you an additional bonus to try out Full Tilt.
Full Tilt Poker Deposit Options – Summary + Next Steps
Full Tilt poker provide a large number of methods to make life easy for all locations. Visa or Electronic wallets are recommended, thanks to their flexibility in moving your money around without it showing up on your bank statement.
It’s been more than five years since the US Department of Justice shut down the major online poker sites operating in the US. Black Friday in 2011 caught American online poker players completely unaware and cut off from their online poker accounts at Full Tilt Poker.
For 97 percent of complainants, the fight to reclaim that money is now over, including another 1,000 people who received the good news that their remission claims had been approved just six weeks ago.
The latest round of Full Tilt claims
In October, the Garden City Group (GCG) — selected by the DOJ to handle the remission process way back in 2013 — announced the ninth and likely final wave of refunds to affected players. These most recent payments total approximately $2.7 million.
As the remission process dragged on, and fewer and fewer people waited for their refunds, the poker community’s attention waned. This latest update would have likely gone unnoticed if not for Haley Hintze over at Flushdraw.
According to an announcement on the GCG website:
“All Petitions have been reviewed and, with this round of payments, approximately 97% of Petitions will have been paid and 3% have been denied. Accordingly, the Petition for Remission process is now closed and filed Petitions will no longer be accepted.”
This brings the total number of refunded players up to around 45,000, and the total amount of money refunded to roughly $114 million. That is roughly 72 percent of the total amount believed to be owed ($160 million) to US poker players by Full Tilt Poker.
The money paid back for Full Tilt so far
Most of the money was sent in the first wave on Feb. 28, 2014, when GCG sent more than 27,500 players more than $76 million.
The subsequent rounds of payments have been on a much smaller scale, but altogether total a hefty $38 million:
- April 1, 2014: 2,200 players were sent $5 million;
- June 12, 2014: 3,200 players were sent $14 million;
- Sept. 25, 2014: 600 players were sent $1.8 million;
- March 31, 2015: 3,500 players were sent $2.5 million;
- June 4, 2015: 2,000 players were sent $4.3 million;
- Oct. 5, 2015: 1,900 players were sent $5.5 million;
- March 11, 2016: 1,180 players were sent $2.6 million;
- Oct. 28, 2016: 1,000 players were sent $2.7 million.
At the end of the remission process, any unpaid money will be split between the Department of Justice and Garden City Group.
Unfiled Full Tilt remission claims
The total number of players owed money by Full Tilt Poker isn’t known. However it’s likely substantially more than the number of former Full Tilt customers who filed claims.
It’s widely believed that the significant difference between the money owed to US players and the amount repaid during the remission process has to do with a significant number of accounts with small balances that never filed a claim with the GCG, for any number of reasons, including:
- Not wanting to deal with the hassle of the claims process for such a small amount of money;
- Dormant accounts that were unaware there was a remission process;
- Dormant accounts that were unaware they had any money in FTP accounts.
But these small balance accounts don’t account for the entirety of the $46 million or so dollars still unpaid.
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Outstanding Full Tilt claims and appeals
There is still a possibility that GCG and DOJ could approve more of the roughly 1,600 remission claims that have been denied by GCG.
“GCG will continue to work with the Department of Justice to evaluate appeals, and any previously denied Petitions that are determined to be payable will be included in an upcoming distribution,” the GCG Full Tilt remission website states.
Many of the denied accounts are believed to be sizable, as denied claims were mainly sponsored professionals and large affiliates, along with claims with informational errors.
However, after several rounds of appeals, spanning a period of nearly three years, it’s unlikely many of these claims will suddenly be approved.