NETELLER and Skrill, two commonly used payment options at many popular online poker sites, will no longer be providing prepaid MasterCard services to customers in 100 countries, their parent company has announced. This new reality will leave many poker players scrambling to find more efficient ways to receive withdrawals. European nations in the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) will not be affected by the change. That includes countries such as Norway, Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Countries that will be affected include New Zealand, Australia, Colombia, and Brazil, among others. Online poker players don’t like waiting…

iGaming Business – Online poker operators WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker are to adopt the NETELLER payment processing solution in an attempt to solve problems players have in depositing and withdrawing from websites in regulated US states. According to the Pokerfuse.com website, WSOP introduced a NETELLER option for customers in New Jersey last month and has now received approval to use the Net Plus card for its Nevada online poker service. The US version of Net Plus is a pre-paid Discover card that players can use to withdraw and deposit funds, with access to cash at ATM machines. The card can be…

US Poker – Neteller has become the first ewallet available in the Nevada regulated online poker market.  It was introduced by WSOP.com today.  At this time, it is only available as a deposit option.  That will change in the near future when it will also be available for withdrawals.  Players would then be able to receive payouts to a debit card that would be accepted by ATM machines and merchants all over the world. Neteller is already available as a banking option for regulated gaming sites in New Jersey.  WSOP.com is among the merchants that currently accepts it there. Neteller…

From Online-Casinos.com It was back in 2006 when the US government made banks and money processing firms responsible for prohibiting any transaction that had anything to do with online poker and internet wagering on US soil. It was the money processors and banks that the Department of Justice first went after to enforce the UIGEA enacted in 2006. U.S. players have had many problems making gambling web site deposits with banks and credit card companies considering them illegal. Neteller was one of the firms that kept offering their financial services to American clients and became a popular source for financial…