Credit Card Poker Deposits with MasterCard and Visa
MasterCard and Visa credit cards are accepted at most online poker sites; however these days' approval rates are much lower than they ever have been in the past. Even if you have a stellar credit rating and healthy available balance even small transactions might be declined. This is due to the bank which issued your credit card filtering out gambling related transactions from being approved. Apparently these banks consider gambling transactions high risk and rather than judge based on credit worthiness they simply block these transactions for everyone. The good news is there are still some sites with solid credit card approval ratings, and there are also alternatives such as 3rd party processors that will allow you to deposit at online poker sites using your credit card.
Sportsbook is the best example of a company good at getting credit card deposits approved. Their company boasts an 88% approval rate on credit card deposits with an even higher success rate for USA issued credit cards. Even if your card has been declined elsewhere, give it a try here as it is likely to work.
Another solid option for depositing at an online poker site with a credit card issued by a US bank is third party processors. Most all poker sites have a third party processor or two set up to help circumvent the blocks. For example at Bodog players can deposit using MyPaylinQ which is an e-wallet. How this works is you can sign up for an account at mypaylinq and then fund this account using you credit card, e-check, or direct transfer such as bringing cash to your local supermarket and filling out a direct transfer slip via WU or MG. Once these funds are in your MyPaylinQ account you can spend them at any of the thousands of merchants, including Bodog Poker, who accept MyPayLinQ as a form of payment.
MyPayLinQ is not the only e-wallet on the market. In fact, this method is fairly unique to Bodog. Each poker site you visit will have a similar method available you just need to take the time to look through the various deposits available from their cashier (after signing up and logging in) to discover which online poker deposit method will allow you to fund using a credit card.
There are a few other ways to use a credit card such as depositing via money transfer service. The two leading money transfer companies don't like press on online gambling sites, but to give a hint their initials are WU and MG. The most common way to use these money transfer services is to bring cash to your local supermarket, bank or Wal-Mart and fill out a form to send money to the poker site, using the name and country they asked you to send to. However, both of these services have websites and do allow credit card to be used to fund smaller sized transfers. While the fees for such services are generally high, the good news is most poker sites will credit your account with both the amount of your deposit and the amount of the fee you paid to complete the transaction. This translates into a for a free way to deposit online using your credit card.
One thing we do wish to give a heads-up on, poker sites go to great lengths to keep their credit card approval rankings high, which is of course in their best interest. If you're not an established customer and contact them with many questions about ways to circumvent gambling blocks on US credit cards, they're likely to get sketchy and brush off your request. For this reason we encourage you to do your due diligence taking the time to navigate though the various deposit options in the poker sites' cashier to see which options you might potentially be able to use a credit card with.
Once again the site with the highest United States issued credit card approval ranking is sportsbook.
If you can't find a way to deposit via credit card you might consider depositing via e-check.
