Titan Poker cheated me out of my good bonus conditions

[freecard4all]

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- euros are now better than dollars (if bush won't disband his "police operation in Iraque" soon you'll get like 3 dollars per euro next year [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] )

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Ummm...relevance? Maybe you're looking for the politics forum...

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relevance: OP shouldn't change his account from euros to dollars (it's time to change dollar accounts to euro accounts).

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- he would not have that trouble
- he would have more money in his account soon (except if he plans on moving the money back and forth)

[GermanGuy]

freecard4all,

I still would have had that trouble. As I didn't change the account from Euro but Pound to USD. I thought about changing it to Euro, but I wanted to fund it quickly from my neteller account.

I even thought about changing it to Euros after I had cleared the bonus, as they told me I could change while clearing or I would lose the bonus...

I agree that it's time to change my accounts to Euro, but not all sites have that option (I play FTP a lot) and I haven't looked into an alternative to Neteller yet, where I can have a secone Euro account.

so real money FTW! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[freecard4all]

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I still would have had that trouble.

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I meant you should keep that currency you had. If it was pounds so be it. You would pay exchange fees for deposits/withdraws but your bankroll wouldn't go down the tube.
Change currency is a loss (at least in terms of time). Having dollars these days is a loss. Changing to dollar account is a loss-loss.

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so real money FTW! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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yea, gold or oil FTW. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Some sites could convert their accounts into something more stable than dollars...

[Bobo Fett]

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relevance: OP shouldn't change his account from euros to dollars (it's time to change dollar accounts to euro accounts).

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Why? An honest question. I see this a lot lately, everyone seems to feel they need to change their accounts. They may be right, but how can they be so certain? The only thing I can say for certain is that I would have made a LOT of money if I had switched my accounts about 2 months ago. With the US dollar having plummeted so much in the last 2 months, might not the opposite be true? The US isn't a third world country, I would assume that there is an end to this at some point. Personally, I don't play the money markets, so I won't do it with my poker bankroll either. Why would I want to pay a couple points of vig to change currencies when I don't even know which way it's headed next? To each their own, I guess.

Meh, I'm helping turn this into a debate on currencies, which this really isn't the place for, and isn't helping the OP much.

What I will add, which I think is more relevant to the OP, is that if one is bonus whoring at a lot of different sites, US $ is pretty much the only way to go with your eWallet. Unless you want to restrict yourself to playing only at sites that take Euros, GBP, or whatever currency your eWallet is in. I move money on and off of all sorts of different sites, many of which deal primarily in US $. I'd get killed paying vig moving my money around.

[freecard4all]

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but how can they be so certain?

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because analytics (and almost everybody) say the dollar is weak. And this won't stop by some miracle. It's in the Bush's hands. If he plans to export billions of dollars then there's no chance the dollar can be strong.

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The US isn't a third world country, I would assume that there is an end to this at some point. Personally, I don't play the money markets, so I won't do it with my poker bankroll either. Why would I want to pay a couple points of vig to change currencies when I don't even know which way it's headed next?

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yea, one day the dollar will be strong again.
But the next move will be down (everybody says) - as I read newspapers the analytics are uncertain how much the dollar get weaker. But there's almost no-one who says that dollar will get stronger any time soon.


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if one is bonus whoring at a lot of different sites, US $ is pretty much the only way to go with your eWallet.

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yep, if you plan on moving your whole bankroll back and forth you'll have to live with that.


BTW. I don't say everybody should move away immediately. Everything costs money. And you'll have to live with that exchange fees. I referred to the situation that OP already had another currency thus the move was an EV- decision.

[Bobo Fett]

Fair enough. I just remember seeing quite a few Canadians (and others) a few weeks back looking for sites to play in other currencies. This was around the time our dollar hit a high of about $1.10 US. Low and behold, now it's back to around par! If anyone actually switched right at that point, they'd have managed to get hammered as our dollar went up AND as it went down...ouch! That's why I think many poker players should stick to what they know, and leave the currency speculation to others.