ePassporte and Full Tilt Poker

[Mastro]

so i am playing in the Leaderboard game yesterday when an email pops up from FTP saying:

"Dear Mastro32407,

You received this email because you have made a deposit using ePassporte.

We have recently been notified by ePassporte that they are no longer able to facilitate deposits or withdrawals between ePassporte and Full Tilt Poker player accounts. We apologize for this inconvenience which is unfortunately outside of our control.

As an alternative to ePassporte, we are pleased to offer you two excelent options: NETeller and Moneybookers."

This of course was a big concern top me since ePassporte is my means for moving money around to my poker accounts. As I am talking to Doug (bluffman) he suggested I email FTP and ask them to set up an option for Instant eChack payment. That sounded like a great idea so I took his advice.

This morning I received the following email from Full Tilt support:

"Hello Robert,

Thank you for contacting Full Tilt Poker Support.

Unfortunately, the Instant eChecks payment option is only available to
a select group of players in the US. Unless Instant eChecks is displayed
in your deposit window, it is not an available payment option for you.

We are pleased to offer many other payment methods to our players such
as NETeller. If you would like to view a full list of the payment
processing options available to you, please visit:
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/deposit.php..."

I sarcastically thanked them for their support (or lack thereof) and told them that I was lucky that Bodog must consider me a "select" player because they still take my money.

Hopefully I can keep playing here but once I cash out or my account runs out I will be finished with FTP. This reminded me so much of the support I received from PR after the internet gambling ban was put in place by the President. I have not been back to PR since and will not return. Too bad FTP just joined that list.

[girlygirlxx]

I just got the same message.

[WinJStar]

The full story is in our news section:

http://luvinpoker.com/forum/showthre...464#post453464

[Mastro]

i could give a rat's ass about ePassporte... i am just disappointed that FTP is not willing to help with the Instant eCheck service that other players are permitted to use!

[bluffmanxx]

wow, i feel so special now.

[WinJStar]

I thought everyone could use that now. Its been out since before Christmas.

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/payInstantEChecks.php

[Mastro]

apparently not

[WinJStar]

I m sure with the Epassport announcement they will expedite their plans and release it to everyone promptly. I am surprised it has a section on their site promoting an item that is not readily available.

[Mastro]

it must be my personal situation...

#1 as an American I cannot use ePassporte
#2 as an American living in Italy all of my "new" deposit options are for foreign banks only

and #3

I TOLD FTP THEY CAN !!!!

[PjgGolfer]

Ultimate Bet accepts epassporte unless I have an e-mail from them saying the same. I had issues with FTP also. I know LP supports them but if this continues maybe LP should look else where.