Over the last year I have become very critical in my approach to new poker rooms - after I lost money in the crashes of JetSet Poker, Spades Lounge and jungle poker.

Today I see poker rooms with very few players – but still they offer lots of freerolls and multi tournaments with overlay.

I would like to participate in these tournaments but I am not happy about making a deposit when it is obviously, that the poker room is loosing money.
Is anyone aware of a group/union/organisation that, on behalf of the poker players, investigate the financial backgrounds of new poker rooms?


Probably all countries have a sort of consumer organisation that controls and approves new online shopping websites that fulfil specific standards.
In this way the consumers are able to sort definitive secure shopping websites from other websites.

Are our national poker unions members of an international union? If so, is this union doing any activities in terms of securing poker players against unreliable poker rooms?

(Somebody would say – “just use the well known poker rooms” – yes, but the greater the competition is between the poker rooms – the greater the offers to the players must be)

Even at sites I trust I do not keep a lot of cash.. I was fortunate to cash out some winnings before ePassporte closed... otherwise I would have had funds stuck I could not get at.  The poker rooms were caught off guard and it took them awhile to replace epp with other US friendly payment processors.

I know, in some cases the withdraw cancels an outstanding bonus... but I learned my lesson when DGN closed and money strewn over many skins was lost. That is also why I restrict my skin play to just a few on each network.

Yes like so many of us I lost with the DGS network. I think i had money strewn on 5 skins. But now I don,t keep more than $50 on any one site anymore. There is no need as I only play Free rolls and some buy-ins. I don,t like to play RING games.
 

Caveat emptor.  Buyer beware.  It's our individual responsibility to protect ourselves by taking steps such as limiting our exposure.  Complete safety or any reasonable semblance isn't going to happen unless and until the world's major governments get a clue and step in.  I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen any time soon. 

In the meantime, I keep my entire online bankroll - meaning the total on all sites plus e-wallet to money I can afford to lose without any real effect on my lifestyle or overall finances.

Once the US goverment stepped in and made funding gaming accounts illegal is when the trouble began. The players new what sites to trust yes I do remember two small sites closing before the gambling law went into effect. After the law there has been 7 small sites and 2 network which had several sites on them close.

The poker players are pretty good regulators. Who busted the AP scandal a gov. or a player?