Hey all,

My first post here on this forum. I am wanting to take cash out of my account in Party Poker. As the site wouldn't accept payment from my credit card (when I first started playing there), I went out and bought a prepaid VISA card to see if that would work. It did. But that doesn't give me the option to cash out the way I paid in.

I am leaning towards the electronic transfer. In fact, I already gave them my bank account routing information, despite feeling a bit at unease about the idea. I researched it a bit and it seemed that (presumed) independent reviews said this was on the up and up. They have now emailed me saying that there are two options to get paid out. One involves that they send me two nominal deposits and then I verify the deposit amounts and then we're ready to go for a full payout.

I've always felt that all these sites were criminal - and virtually all of the big sites have been proven to be so with all kinds of offences. Party Poker hasn't been indicted of anything but I certainly won't be surprised if that comes in the future. So essentially, I've given my routing information to what I feel could be a criminal organization. Am I crazy? Have other people gone this way for payouts through Party Poker? Any thoughts from people with their experiences?