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I spoke to Maureen this morning. Her grandson Reece is seriously ill, Mr Nun (who is self employed) has a broken leg and cracked ribs, and  is unable therefore unable to to work. her father-in-law has head injuries (although not serious) and her father-in law's mum is expected to pass away any time. 

Today she is, as you might expect, a little bit down.

We should do something. Maureen has four members of her family in hospital, including the only one that was working. Money can't solve her problems, but we could perhaps ease her financial burden a little.

This may not be possible, (I don't know yet) but I am going to speak to the mods with a view to making a collection on Maureens behalf. I would be happy to start it off with a small donation. (Hopefully, individual donation amounts could remain anonymous, but the total raised could be verified)

What do you think?




I posted this earlier today on another thread.  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=34958.msg751219#msg751219


Since then I have discussed it with the mods and admin, and all are in favour of my publishing the details of Maureens Stars account so that those of you who would like/are able to can make a donation.

Her Stars id is mous and her hometown is huddersfield.

We will also be looking at running a little 'benefit' comp on blonde.

BTW- Maureen says that the moral support that she has received is worth more to her than anything. Please, Keep it coming.

Thank You.

xx

Seconded.

I second that.

stars don't have a playthrough requirement do they?

I don't think they do, so you should be able to transfer.

not talking about transfering, talking about getting the money off the site without having to play poker with it first for some unspecified amount of time like I have seen in posts from people moaning that PS won't let them withdraw transferred money.

prob tikay knows people who can sort it out I'm sure

people transferred monies to me for the forum challenge stuff (home game/shirts/buy in etc) and I had no bother withdrawing it, I do play regularly on it if that made a difference ?

yeah, I was wrong, sorry

Hello Justin,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your kind
intentions.

Please note that players are free to cashout their funds at any time at
our site; we have no restrictions that under regular circumstances would
impede any player from doing so.

Furthermore, you may feel free to transfer funds to other players at our
site.

To make a real-money transfer at PokerStars, you will simply need to log-
in to your PokerStars account, and from the Requests menu at the top of
the screen, select Transfer Funds.... Enter the User ID of the
recipient and the amount to be transferred.

Once submitted, your transfer request will be reviewed by support and
processed as soon as possible.

Regards,

Angelica
PokerStars Support Team

thanks for checking that out Byron.

You have to say, everything that 'Stars do, they do efficiently, quickly, & well. Some site that.

All the 'Stars players out here in Vegas are wearing tops which say "THE WORLD'S LARGEST POKER SITE". And no wonder.

Question.

I am in the US of A now, & want to deposit some cash on 'Stars. My card "bounced". (I'm in funds). Do you think it bounced because of the Ports Bill thing?

Thanks.

Because Party had to shut down US players?

Possibly but just as likely a fraud detection system or you put in the wrong number......

I spoke to Maureen briefly this morning and, truth to tell. things are pretty bad. Firstly, Reece 'might' be losing weight. I say might because there is some confusion over weather he was weighed before or after his feed. (The fact that there is confusion is a worry in itself)

Usually Maureen is there to oversee these things ,but she has also been looking after Darren (Mr Nun) who is in agony with a broken ankle and cracked ribs.

Maureen was just setting out for the hospital again so I didn't manage to find out much more. She did ask me to thank you all for your moral support and good wishes, she says she is overwhelmed by everyones kindness.

Maureen also wants me to thank the people who transfered donations to her Stars account. (especially those who could ill afford it but made a small donation anyway) She says the money will be used to pay off some outstanding bills that have been a real worry.


I personally would like to thank you all for your kindness and compassion. Mrs Red and I have had a little taste of what Maureen is going through and believe me, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy. it is indescribably hard. The kindness and support we received from friends and sometimes strangers made us so emotional that we often burst into tears, but I don't think we would have got through without it.

Never underestimate the power of a kind word, or the strength that comes from knowing you're not alone.   

if your using a credit card you might have problems in th US tony, better to use a debit card if u have one avaliable.

I've just heard that Darren doesn't have to have an operation on his ankle, so with any luck it will just be the usual six weeks in plaster and then learn to walk on it again.

That's good news.

+1 Good to hear it's not as bad as first thought.

Out of interest what work does Darren do?

He's a window cleaner. (Well they did say he should keep his leg elevated)  ;marks;

if he was working in liverpool he would need a sander to clean the windows ;)

Oh Sigh   ;smackedbottom;

 Stars id is mous and her hometown is huddersfield

I was asked in PM for details, so am bumping thread for anyone who needs the info.

LeKnave & I have had a $50 last longer on the WSOP ME. If i win, id be more than happy to send the $50 as donations to Maureen & family. Hopefully he will do the same.

Shib!

nice gesture knave and brent.

very nice of u

Poor Maureen, I shipped her some monies as shes a lovely person!

Just seen this Tom.
All good wishes to Maureen, Darren and the family.
I'll log onto Stars in a bit and sort out a transfer--
 and I'll pass the word around at DTD.
Regards
malc-m

Thanks Guys.

Today Maureen took Reece from her home in Huddersfield to the Hospital at Manchester to have his bloods done, and then she took him home again so that she could collect Darren and take him to hospital in Huddersfield.

Then she took them both home whie she went to the doctors herself, then she collected Reece again to take him back to the hospital in Manchester.

Maureen gets no help with the cost of fuel, parking, meals, nappies, special foods, etc etc.

Thank you once again.

Any news on the blonde comp ?

finding out. We definitely want to do it, of course

Thanks again for the money but unfortunatly Stars has put a stop on it now. I will return the ones that they are not going to let transfer. This will leave my stars account empty so that no one thinks I am playing off the money donated.

Hello maureen, PokerStars is a site on which people come to play poker. Our transfer tool was designed so that players could send funds to each other as a result of activity on our tables. PokerStars is not a fund transfer site or a loan payment facilitator. In the future, we ask that issues unrelated to PokeStars and its tables be resolved outside of our site. Your cashout request has been cancelled. Please proceed to send the funds back to the account from which they originate or play with these at our tables. Please let us know if can be of any further assistance. Regards, Sean

Thats a bummer, is there not another site that you can do the transfers on, tilt?

With regards to Stars policy on this, how do people like CashManBrian and all the other poker related services that take payment via Stars operate?

sigh

i'm assuming most people on here have internet banking? why not send it that way??

just send a cheque????

Paypal ftw obv

paypal is free and fast

Just a thought but why don't people send the funds to one of u trusted blonde members who knows maureen and also has a stars account. Then the player could just send the family a cheque for the sum of the monies received?

There's a post on one of the other threads stating that the Stars problem has been resolved and that Maureen can withdraw the funds.

not any more :(

read up a few posts.

 ;djinn;

bollocks.

I will closing my account at stars and throwing their merchandise in a large refuse sack for recycling..........and I had a lot of their merchandise

Blatant "I have lost soo much weight my Stars top doesn't fit me anymore brag IMO". ;)

it's a shame Stars won't allow it anymore but you have to realise that they can not keep doing this, it already went against their original T&Cs and I'm pretty sure it's costing them money...they're not a bank after all and if they would allow this they would have to allow it for a hell of a lot of people around the world in a similarly tough situation.

Yes I guess you are right Boldie, I have now been sent a further response which i guess is from higher up.

Hello Maureen, Thank you for your email. Please keep in mind that further abuse of this policy might incur on permanently blockage of your account. Thank you for playing at Pokerstars. Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.  Regards, Kuok SenPokerStars Security Team.


So thanks for trying to help all it meant a lot. I will return the monnies from this last drawout today. This will have been the third cashout I would have made from you guys. My account on Stars , like I said will then be empty. I told them that we foolishly thought we were allowed after my email explaing the situation and giving them links to Blonde then them ok'ing it.

xx

Paypal isn't free. They take a percentage of the transacted amount.

Bank transfers are free though.

Bank transfers are so simple too, sort code, last 8 digits, 10 seconds work...

Well, providing you have internet banking

I am sure Kev won't mind spending a day doing player transactions on Blonde :)

Looking into the possibility.

Sure is buddy - but it's physically impossible and morally wrong

Bank transfers = bad idea.  You only need to read anything written by Frank Abagnale to get that far. I'd firmly suggest not giving bank details to people you don't really know, and even then. I'd also stop using cheques completely though so maybe I'm just ott.

Best must be for someone with a decent role and activity on stars or tilt to collect funds and send on to the nun the same amount from their own money (cash or cheque etc), then withdrawing the funds overtime to cover the payment from their own money. Difficult to audit though!

just give a mod a password to the account for 5 mins to check transaction history.

why does all this have to be done electronically? why dont people just send maureen a cheque? Or have i missed something?

Cheques = postage + clearing

I haven't got a lot of time this evening to look into this, but anyone can set up a sponsorship/donations site with http://www.easysponsorship.com/

It's free to set up your own website with photos etc and then we could all e-mail round the link so everyone who wants to donate can.  There is a per transaction fee taken by Pay pal (who process the card transactions) but this is fairly standard because it's actually a charge passed on by the credit card providers (Visa etc)

Hope this helps

26p? cheques take same time to clear as getting money off a poker site.

postage time not cost. + even more personal information both ways.

You don't have to give your details to anyone.  I can post up the sort code and account number of a savings account (with no notice period to withdraw funds)  - people transfer money into the account and then the money is transferred from this account to Maureen's.

Why is that a bad idea?

With a sort code, account number and probably a full name within a few seconds you have a nice solid base for identity theft. (and there can be debates all day about 'well you can only deposit funds with that info' or 'at worst a direct debit can be set up' but honestly I just would really stay away from having those details on the net or being sent to anyone - trust is not a control) Anyhow going well off topic now and don't want to take anything away from the initiative.

All sort of charities have their bank details available to deposit into. . . .

and business have them on all their invoices. Its a lot harder to take the identity of a company than an individual.

If I give you an account number and sort code for a saving account - good luck setting up anything from that.  You won't even know whose name the account is in.  It might be a business account.

I could tell the the branch address and type of account (depending on which bank) and that would be a nice thread. I go into the actual branch to give it more credability and ask to make a payment to the account by cheque - ask the cashier nicely what the exact account name is to make sure I get it right on the cheque and I'm another step closer. I'm not saying if you post it you'll have your identity stolen, but you would be giving a decent pro a cracking start. If its a business account I'd now have a better profile on you for further building.

Its a shame identity fraud is illegal, its such an interesting and challenging subject - it would make a nice career.

Pm's sent re: returning of funds that Stars refused to allow.

Thanks all for trying.


xx

THis is unreal,

Just minutes after returning money they send me this ..lol.

Hello Maureen  Thank you for contacting PokerStars! Please be informed you cash out has been approved. Please keep in mind this was a onetime exception and this will never be done again. You were explained you are not allowed to withdrawal funds coming from transfers. Future cashouts that fit this pattern will not be approved. We would like to thank you for your support towards our security procedures. Please understand these procedures are designed to maintain a safe playing environment for all PokerStars players. Best regards, WalterLPokerStars Security Team

Too late Stars but thanks.

Can we not quickly send the funds back and the withdrawal would still go thru.

typical gaming sites i cashed cheque from party poker 3 days l8r it bounces putting me off online poker.
hope ur all doing aswell as can be exspected.
steve claire and kids xx

Must have changed policy. Last year i won money on sicilian's account, transferred to me and i withdrew it. Either way glad u got it sorted Maureen.

Best Wishes

Not so sure sorted was the right word as returned the funds. I do understand that they need these rules in place.

ahh right see what u mean now, u had returned them to the contributors then got the e-mail from stars. sorry my mistake!!

Lest there be confusion - sorry, more confusion - can I just try & clarify where we are with this - at least, as  I understand it.

Numerous blondes transferred cash across to Maureen on 'Stars.

Maureen tried to withdraw it, as envisaged, but 'Stars would not permit it. (Quite possibly, with good reason).

Lots of e-Mails went back & forth to various members of 'Stars Customer Support. Variously, 'Stars said, words to the effect,  "hmm, not sure, it's against our Rules, but we may make an exception in this case".

After chasing them for some days, & getting no replies, Maureen decided it would be best to return the cash to the Donors, by "re-transferring" it back. She did not feel it "right" that donated cash was still sitting in her 'Stars account, as there may be some who might consider this improper.

So tonight, she transferred all the donations back, & PM'd the Donors to advise them.

Moments later, 'Stars wrote & said "it's OK, you can do it".

But it was too late by then. It never rains......

Please bear with us for 24 hours while we scratch our heads & see if we can find, & agree, oin a better & more practical method.

Mother Hen has already offered to "accept" all Donations to his 'Stars Account, leave them here, & issue a personal cheque to Maureen for the donated amount. I guess the same logic could be used by several of us, & I & or others would, I'm sure, offer the same facility. The problem though is transparency & accountability.

Please give us 24 hours to find the best answer to this. Many of you want to help with this, so there'll be no giving up on our (the blondes) part. We just need to discuss, agree, & set up a practical means of doing it.

Thanks.

I have already withdrawn some doantions like stated previously. Those that I have returned have received pm's and msn's. My Stars account reamins empty now as it was prior to receiving any monies from Blondes as I did not want you guys thinking I was playing it off.

Understood Maureen.

We are on the case.

Have a good night. Please!

x

Well, finally life seems to be getting somewhere near to normal again, or as normal as it will get for a while.

Darren has had his pot off and apart from the the swelling around the ankle when he walks on it too much, it seems to be improving.


We just wanted to say thanks to all of you that helped us when we needed it. It really did make a difference.

xx

Great news Maureen.  :)up

Nice one :)up

See you both again soon.

Good news indeed.......hopefully see you at the Bash

Very pleased to hear that the old boy is on the mend and hope to see you both soon.

So glad to hear things are improving a bit for ye!  Thinking about you and the crew all the time.  xx

x

great news

I'm sure he'll be back up the ladder soon

or you could get some roller blades??????

Thanks all,

Reece update coming soon on his thread.

+ lots