Poker Stars, the popular online poker room and Casino has announced its intention to begin offering the option of having the funds transferred directly into their bank accounts from the online Poker Stars website.  It is unclear whether this is an effort to get around the recent United States banking problems that have popped up since the government passed more restrictive gambling laws against banks that allow transactions with online gambling and gaming websites, or if it is just an attempt to provide even more services than online poker rooms and casinos currently offer.  With the exit of NETeller from the United States market, there has been a tremendous vacuum of power in the market of online payment processing services.  Without NETeller and services similar to NETeller to fund the bankrolls up online players, more online poker rooms and casinos are looking for workarounds and solutions to the problem of allowing players to transfer funds to their online poker room and casino player accounts.

Offering this extra step and extra feature, PokerStars online poker room and casino stands to enjoy that much more success with online poker room players looking to find an easy way to transfer their funds to the online poker room and casinos.  The maximum amount that can be transferred in this way is $2000 within 30 days in a $600 maximum limit within 24 hours.  Naturally, there are all manner of processes that must be dealt with by the player to verify their identity before the website will release any funds or do any business with the player's account.  But once the initial installment has passed muster, then there is no reason that any future installments and payouts should be delayed any further than normal.  In fact, these payouts and transfers are expected to be almost instantaneous once the player has successfully signed up and installed their player account and begun to transfer funds into it as well as out of it.

With this new focus on offering an extra and additional service to their users, Poker Stars online poker room and casino has very likely set a trend that other online poker rooms and casinos will surely follow.  It remains to be seen what effect this move by PokerStars.com will have on the rest of the industry, which is known for not allowing any one particular website to gain a strong upper hand or market share.