I'm not new to poker, but I've never played for cash before. I have a few questions.

I've read a few horror stories about people getting in trouble with their banks when the banks discovered they were getting funds from online poker sights so my plan at this point is to not involve my bank at all.

I was thinking of possibly using a pre-paid card, but I know people have had trouble getting those to deposit. My second recourse is to do a transfer of funds where I send one of you fine people money and get sent (pokerstars) money in return. I wouldn't get a deposit bonus for it, but ah well.

So my first question is...what would you all recommend for someone who wants to avoid a paper trail?

Secondly when it comes to cashing any potential checks that might come my way. I would probably just go to a check cashing place, again to avoid connecting things to my bank account in any way. Anyways, I know there's been a few issues with pokerstars recently and one of their processors being shut down...should I be worried about ever getting a bad check from them and sunsequently getting into big trouble? (I know I sound overly-paranoid...next thing you know I'll be putting a tinfoil hat on my head).

Anyways, thanks for any help and/or guidance you could give to this overly paranoid goofball.

Originally Posted by ZZorinn

I'm not new to poker, but I've never played for cash before. I have a few questions.

I've read a few horror stories about people getting in trouble with their banks when the banks discovered they were getting funds from online poker sights so my plan at this point is to not involve my bank at all.
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I knew that 2+2 thread would do a huge amount of damage to poker. Damn scaremongering. FFS

it depends on the bank, if you link an online site to a local bank, they usually dont care or dont know you're playing poker, but i know bank of america hates online poker and they wont allow you to link your account to any poker site that i know of