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hm, that's odd. thanks for letting me know.
i've never understood credit checks in this country (i'm from germany originally, been living and earning here for 6 years now), but seems like so far i'm good, haven't been turned down, and have had credit cards approved (well, the one i have is with my house bank santander with like 4.5K limit, all i need for work travel expenses), and despite deposting into poker; though it wasn't 2x a month.

but that's a different topic i guess

hm, that's odd. thanks for letting me know.
i've never understood credit checks in this country (i'm from germany originally, been living and earning here for 6 years now), but seems like so far i'm good, haven't been turned down, and have had credit cards approved (well, the one i have is with my house bank santander with like 4.5K limit, all i need for work travel expenses), and despite deposting into poker; though it wasn't 2x a month.

but that's a different topic i guess

haha ok well good to know, they could have just messed up the credit check or something but i think i did some googling and found out it can damage your credit rating, who knows haha you have no problems so i wouldnt worry about it. Im starting a moneybookers account in GBP in my brothers name so i can circumvent this currency conversion fee problem. Thanks for the replys guys, big help.

The credit rating thing is if it thinks you're constantly doing chargebacks, something credit companies want to avoid. However, they don't have access to your bank statements so they would have no way of knowing unless this credit check is so extensive they have to see your statements which I've never heard of. moneybookers would never be a problem, it's not even listed as moneybookers it's just a standard BGC which could be from anywhere/anyone.

Does stars not have the option to keep different currencies in seperate "accounts" like they used to?

Does stars not have the option to keep different currencies in seperate "accounts" like they used to?

Yes but you can set it to auto-convert for any game you buy into, and auto-convert back to your preferred currency whenever you leave the table without them charging anything for it. There is literally no downside to doing this.

Just that I thought I remember reading something about them rounding off the pennies when the auto re buy tops off the stack where it favors the house, so if I remember right it would leak out fractions of a penny when the conversions rounded off.

Just that I thought I remember reading something about them rounding off the pennies when the auto re buy tops off the stack where it favors the house, so if I remember right it would leak out fractions of a penny when the conversions rounded off.

That's iPoker. Though I'm not 100% sure Stars doesn't do this as well. Still this would be much much cheaper than ever paying 2% conversion.

So i just use my Lloyds TSB debit card and face zero fees on deposit or withdrawal.