Absolute Poker steals $1700 of my money?

[runwalkjump]

I know I'm new and that means I'm probably a scammer and so forth, but I figured I'd post my story here to see if anyone can help me. I already sent an email to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission but I highly doubt that will do anything.

I deposited $1700 USD to Absolute Poker about a month ago and played a few hundred hands there, and attempted to transfer to a friend. After doing so, they cancelled the transfer and closed my account and requested documents to prove my identity. I sent them in and Adrian from the security team said my account would be unlocked within 2 days. They didn't do it, and 2 weeks later I called them and Adrian said that my account would likely stay closed. I submitted documents (again, they lost them the first time) and I got an email that said my account would remain closed. I said that's fine, but I want the $1700 refunded to my Click2Pay account.

I have not heard back from them, and I think they intend to steal my $1700 for no reason.

I understand they want to close my account for "security reasons" and I guess that's fine; I don't want to play there anymore anyway (the games suck and the customer service is quite clearly terrible), but stealing my $1700 on top of that? Ridiculous.

[mattw]

never ever do a player transfer.

[runwalkjump]

Seems a bit late for that, eh?

[dnord]

These threads go faster if you just tell us - up front - what you did that looked shady to the site.

[runwalkjump]

I cashed in using Click2Pay, played a few hundred hands, didn't like the site, transferred a bunch to a friend that I owed money to, and they reversed it and then closed my account. They said "they weren't a bank" on the phone and I agreed. They said they would permanently close my account and that's fine. But taking my money because I allegedly used them as a bank?

[Henry17]

What level do you play at?

[MiltonFriedman]

Those, and bugging Absolute are your only FREE options.

Otherwise .... what are you willing to pay to get your money back ?

[Hopey]

1) This seems to be pretty typical of Absolute.
2) What you did reeks of money laundering, so even if Absolute wasn't a little sketchy to begin with, hardly anyone on this board will blame them for seizing your funds.

The only thing you can do is to keep fighting with them to get your money back. They may eventually return them to you if a sufficient amount of time passes and it turns out that you did not deposit the funds to Click2Pay through fraudulent means.

[BurnleyMik]

Have absolute stated that this is the end of the matter and that your funds have been seized and account closed or have they said that it's frozen pending an investigation???

I have said it before and I will say it again, players need somewhere to turn to when sites act in this manner. The Gaming Commission doesn't seem to be cutting the mustard in these issues.

[cardman]

What happened to your friend's account?