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There is a wide range of online poker deposit options that you can use depending on where you live to fund your online poker account. A lot of the deposit options are available throughout most poker rooms although there are some deposit options which you will only find in certain poker rooms. Several poker deposit options are available for players around the world, but the majority of poker deposit options are country specific. We’re going to take a look at several different types of deposit options below so you can determine what one might be best for you.

Credit Cards – Debit Cards

* Every single online poker room accepts credit cards as a deposit option and its one of the most popular poker deposit options used. Some credit cards won’t be accepted depending on where you live, but for the most part you’ll be able to use any type of credit card to fund your account. A lot of poker rooms are starting to accept debit cards as well for making deposits into your poker room account. Some of the available credit card and debit card deposit options include MasterCard, Visa, Maestro, Solo, Switch and Laser.

E-Wallets

* Thousands of online poker players at PokerStar use an e-wallet service to fund their online poker accounts and it’s a deposit method that has continued to grow in popularity. The two most popular e-wallet deposit options for poker players are Moneybookers and Neteller. There are many more e-wallet deposit options to choose from including Click2Pay, Click&Buy, UseMyBank, eWalletExpress and quite a few others. When you use an e-wallet service to fund your account you’ll need to register an account with the third party service. Once you have an account you can fund your e-wallet account using a credit card or bank account and then you can fund your account using the funds on your e-wallet account. Some poker rooms have even started offering bonuses to players that deposit using certain e-wallet services so it’s worth looking into.

Other Deposit Options

* If you don’t want to use one of the above options then you still have several options. A popular deposit option for Americans and Canadians is e-checks which is an electronic check. You can also send most poker rooms electronic transfers from your bank account if you wish. Recently there have been some services such as UKash which allow you to purchase vouchers in land based locations to use for funding your online poker account. UKash is only available in a few countries including the UK right now, but there are other similar services.

There are tons of poker deposit options to choose from and the online poker rooms always add new services when they become available. The poker rooms do their best to ensure everyone can deposit to their account using their preferred method and that is why you see so many different options available in most poker rooms. If you’re unable to find a way to deposit to your online poker account then chances are you aren’t looking hard enough or you don’t have a bank account or credit card in your name.