Serious poker players have accounts on different poker sites for different purposes. For example: 1. One poker site where to play cash games. 2. One poker site where to play big guaranteed tournaments. 3. One poker site where to play with small amounts of money when relaxing/drunk.
Moneybookers is essential and the best tool to move money in between these different poker sites. It is fast, easy to use, works in "every" country and with every poker site. And it doesn't take fees when you move your money from one poker site to another poker site.
Because poker sites want people to play the deposits always work immediately. When you make your deposit it takes only seconds when you'll see your money in your poker account and you are ready to play.
When making withdraw / cash out there might be huge differences in between different poker sites how fast they handle your request. You would assume that in these "fast internet days" every poker site would do it immediately and automatically, because there isn't any reason why it shouldn't be so, but they aren't.
Here are the test results of withdraw / cash out times from different poker sites:
- PokerStars 1 minute - 15 minutes.
- Full Tilt 1 minute - 1 day (usually 1 minute - 15 minutes)
- bwin 1 day - 3 days
- 888poker average time approximately 3 days
- CarbonPoker 3 days- 7 days
On their pages every poker site advertise about "fast withdrawals". Obviously it seems to be only advertising without any facts behind those words. In real life only few poker sites actually make those fast withdrawals, even so they all should do them.
Test: Withdraw / Cash out times from different poker sites
