Poker withdrawals!!!
 

Man, I've been going through crazy poker withdrawals.

I know majority of the online websites are down.

Are there ANY online that are reputable which allows you to play for real money?

I'm only 45 minutes or an hour from a nearby casino.

But they tend to be out of my limit.

Please... HELP!

Yes sir. I play everyday on the Merge network. Been going strong for us players since black friday. There are many skins but the best one for rewards and rakeback is Black Chip Poker. There is also the cake network and yahatay network. Pm me with your SN and i can hook u up with a good VIP rakeback program and assist you with depositing if needed. Checks do take about 5 weeks but that is so they aren't careless with payment processors and so the doj can't catch them.

Intertops has been good for me. Part of the Cake network.

What's the traffic like on the sites you guys have mentioned?

I used to play a lot on FTP.

The site that has the most traffic is the Merge Network, which Black Chip Poker is a part of or a skin.

http://www.pokerscout.com/ can give you a good idea. Bodog/Bovada has decent traffic, but I would not trust it now that it is 100% anonymous. You don't even know who you are playing with. You'll just be at a table of Player 1, Player 2, Player 3, etc and you can't even take notes on them.

Cake isn't a bad site except there have been reports of checks taking 3-4 months in the past, but news is they may have a new payment processor to speed that up. I requested a check from Black Chip/Merge on January 7th 2012 and received it just yesterday which is pretty much the best you are going to expect. You can deposit many different ways as well.

I just got torched for 92.00 b/c of a lucky river card. Damn it!

are these sites actually legit? can you get into trouble? I'm having poker withdrawals too and am tired of having to drive over an hour to play a game.

Sounds like I'm better off driving to a local casino.

Sac n' Fox (45 minutes away) has a MTT every night.

Maybe I'll hit up one of those.

You cannot get in trouble by the government or anybody else for playing online. The people who can get in trouble are just the payment processors and those running the sites. I get checks all the time from Black Chip Poker/Merge and my bank cashes them no questions asked.

There are hundreds of thousands of people still playing online poker. Alot of the US traffic has been scared away and hopefully regulation for online poker is coming, but that is what we have now.

If you don't want to wait 5 weeks for a check you can always cash out in player to player transfers with other players with good history @ http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...ng-rules-1529/. There is a big market for funds since some people prefer not to wait, in fact, if you want to deposit that way you can usually get money online for about .92 on the dollar. In fact, once my current staking agreement ends in a few weeks I'll be looking to move 3K+.

What site? Hand history?

I'd like to play poker this weekend texas holdem