Poker Rooms Accepting Paypal

Paypal is one of the most popular and frequently used online wallets available today, and so it is only natural for people to be interested in using it to fund their poker accounts.

Not all major poker rooms accept Paypal as a payment option, however, there are a handful of smaller poker rooms that do:

All Paypal poker rooms.

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  Betfair
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  Ladbrokes
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  William Hill

Betfair is the best choice out of these 3 PayPal poker rooms, and by some margin as well.

The major poker rooms such as PokerStars, Full Tilt, Party Poker, Cake Poker and Bet365 Poker do not accept Paypal as a deposit method (or withdrawal option). You are going to have to use another popular deposit option such as Neteller, Moneybookers or use your credit card.

Unfortunately, the poker rooms that allow players to make deposits and withdrawals to their poker accounts using Paypal are in the minority.

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Why don't more Poker rooms accept Paypal?

All of these rooms are European based, which is the reason why Paypal is an accepted payment method. Paypal is more comfortable with allowing poker players to fund their European poker accounts rather than the poker rooms outside of Europe.

This is due to the large amount of trouble that has been caused with online poker funding for US citizens since the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) of 2006, therefore Paypal will obviously want to play it safe and avoid any problems that can arise from allowing players to deposit to rooms outside of Europe.

Sign up for an account and deposit using PayPal at Betfair

What are these Paypal poker rooms like?

All of these Paypal poker rooms are also well-established sportsbooks and have branched out into the poker industry over the last few years. They each offer a high level of customer service and have good user-friendly software. The rooms also offer multi-currency tables, where you can choose between playing poker in Dollars, Euros, or Pounds depending on your personal preference.

However, the main problem is that most of these rooms suffer from a slight lack of player volume, as they are yet to gain a big presence in the online poker industry. The rooms are relatively new to the online poker market and still in their early stages of growth, so in the future they will have a much bigger player base than they have at the moment.

The majority of poker rooms accepting Paypal generally have lower player traffic.

Using other online wallets instead of Paypal.

Although it is incredibly handy to be able to fund you poker account via Paypal, it may be in your best interest to take the time to open another online wallet such as Neteller or Moneybookers so that you can deposit at the bigger online rooms with much greater player traffic.

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If you are able to open a Paypal account, then you are also able to open one of the other online wallets that will allow you to deposit to the majority of the online poker rooms. In my opinion, it is in your best interest to open one of these online wallets for yourself if you like to play poker on a regular basis.

By doing so you will then be able to easily transfer your money from one room to another without any problems, and without having to be concerned about whether or not it will be possible to get your money in and out of a certain poker room.

However, if you are still determined to use everyone’s favourite online wallet, it's good to know that there are a few rooms out there that are open to your Paypal poker efforts.

Sign up for an account and deposit using PayPal at Betfair

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