Deposit methods for Canadians

[JettyZ]

Well I'm in Canada, and so far I've been having a hard time trying to deposit money onto Pokerstars, Carbon Poker.

Apparently credit cards have gambling restrictions, and Click2Pay gives me some kind of error.

I was thinking about using moneybookers, but I can't receive text messages although I have a cell phone.

Are there any successful ways to deposit?

 

[ChuckTs]

Credit cards should work fine. I've used my visa for both deposit and withdrawals for months now. If it doesn't I'm sure a quick call to the bank should clear it up.

Other methods generally use your credit card and just middle-man the situation, so I don't see how it'd be any different if your card was really blocked.

 

[JettyZ]

Well, I just get an error when I try to use my mastercard.

Then, carbon poker sends me some kind of error output that looks like this:


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failed
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or this...


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Error
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[ChuckTs]

Well you could try contacting their tech support...

Carbon will likely not help at all but stars will %100.

Just email [email protected] with your problem and the error and stuff.

 

[Monoxide]

Ive never had any problems depositing, or withdrawing with a credit card.

Its something wrong with your card, no canadians will be restricted from playing poker with a few exceptions like.... bodog.. you cant play there as a canadian period. Haters!

 

[NineLions]

Anyone know of a credit card for Canadians, in US$? I wouldn't mind tying that into my US$ bank account so I don't end up paying exchange back and forth.


Edit: a cheap one, since I wouldn't use it much. RB has a gold one for 65$ annual fee.

 

[FredJohnson]

No Canadien bank will issue a credit card in US dollars.

 

[NineLions]

CIBC. and I think TD is other that I've found so far, have ones with $35 annual fees.

Can't find any Mastercard ones though.

 

[Paj1975]

Well, I used Instadebit at Titan, no problems. I used V at partypoker and no problems. Pokerstars doesn't have Instadebit. Full tilt does. I've yet to withdraw money but I've had no problems depositing for what that's worth. I saw that Instadebit was a solid choice for Canadians, so that's what I used at Titan but I never saw that option at PS.