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[damastaglen]

Hi

I have friends in USA who, because of some legal rubbish as shown here Full Tilt Poker Bans USA Players ? Poker News Daily - Poker - Zimbio cannot play poker online.

Please note, it seems that they ban based on location of where the connection is coming from so a perceived UK connection would work.

If it was a site, it would be easy because there are lots of proxy sites to go to (proxify for example) but each site uses its own software so I am unsure what to do.

Does anyone know of a way that they can bypass this? (links / names of software would be amazing).

Thanks in advance.

[SouthernComfort]

IP changer or TOR? not sure of the protocols used by those sites but changing location shouldn't be hard.

[oneman]

This actually dates back to a law passed several years ago that UK backs and credit card companies could not process gambling payments. I did read the goverment is out to recover over $3 BILLION from the big 3 sites. There have been 11 people arrested and charged with money laundering.

So yes they could use a proxy server but the problem could be in making the payments and my guess is the 3 main sites are going to go bust soon.

[Cod3waX]

every1 uses routers and if u were to check ur ip it would show ur routers ip to the world

so maybe buy an English router will solve this ???

[masur123]

Your best options are VPN or Tor, but bear in mind the location is not your location so much, its the money. I dont think the sites will accept payments or hand out winnings to any American accounts. Your best bet on this is to find a trustworthy friend outside the US and ask them to put the money into your account for you

[SouthernComfort]

Non resident accounts are not hard to acquire, trusting a "friend" in a foreign country with your money, now that is gambling.

[drawflex]

every1 uses routers and if u were to check ur ip it would show ur routers ip to the world

so maybe buy an English router will solve this ???

mate. i think you have your wires seriously in a muddle.. your router/modem gets given an IP assigned to it from ISP each time it registers on the ISPs network, (an external IP),

Geeky bit you can skip.....
a router's job is to allow multiple devices to use the same IP while making sure each device only gets the data meant for it.....any computers that connect to router are given an internal IP ( usually start 192.168....) but externally, all computers connected to router will be sharing the same IP address.. the router watches all data packets in/out and changes the source/destinantion IP and port on data packets in such a that way it can keep a track on where each packet should be going and re-route as needed.... </geek>

as IPs are assigned by ISP, an english router on an american ISP would just get assigned an american IP

[masur123]

Non resident accounts are not hard to acquire, trusting a "friend" in a foreign country with your money, now that is gambling.

Really depends on who the friend is, I have several friends in various parts of the world I know I could trust with my money. However someone on a poker site I wouldnt trust with money. Its all about common sense.

[drawflex]

Non resident accounts are not hard to acquire, trusting a "friend" in a foreign country with your money, now that is gambling.

easy way would be to set up a pre-paid credit card here in the UK and transfer sterling onto it from your US bank account... get the card sent to a friend.. but it doesn't matter... you could shred it and still have complete controll of the card transactions from anywhere in the world with just the numbers... you could also change the pin to be double sure of no anauthorised use.

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[SouthernComfort]

Really depends on who the friend is, I have several friends in various parts of the world I know I could trust with my money. However someone on a poker site I wouldnt trust with money. Its all about common sense.

A non resident account is a bank account, in your name, in a foreign country, think Cayman Islands
Depends on how much money we are discussing, money can be a true test of friendship. Needless to say there are very few people I would trust.

[masur123]

A non resident account is a bank account, in your name, in a foreign country, think Cayman Islands
Depends on how much money we are discussing, money can be a true test of friendship. Needless to say there are very few people I would trust.

I didnt know about the non resident accounts, that would be the safest option for paying outside of the US

[drawflex]

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[SouthernComfort]

Don't like gambling much, play for a laugh though.

[drawflex]

i never put serious money on.. 20-30 quid a month tops.... but been doing good up till last month when i was pissed and blew lots of my accrewed winnings... took ?130 out end of last year... i do ok on the smaller tables, but when i keep winning i get balsy and move up to the bigger staked tables.. usually ending up with me losing

IMO, poker isn't worth playing unless there's money staked on it, doesn't have to be alot though... i dont mean because there's nothing to win, i mean it's hard to bluff or pressure someone into folding if they've got nothing to lose by calling... and it's easy to fold a hand on the river when all you've put into the pot is play money, people play a lot wilder on play money tables making them hard to figure out... a bit of money staked makes people think alot more about what they're doing.

Taught parents and sis to play over christmas last year, was a good laugh playing for coppers.. lot harder in real life with no dealer.. kept losing the flow... still was good fun
I got a good mate i gang up with which works quite well sometimes.