How to deposit crypto to a poker room

An account at a crypto exchange, or a wallet app that already holds some coins, and a few dollars in USDT. Basepoker and WePlay both take USDT, and it is the sensible coin to use for poker: its value is fixed to the dollar, so your bankroll does not move while you sleep. From 4 November 2026 Basepoker swaps every deposit into USDT anyway.

Buy it on an exchange with a card or a bank transfer. The large exchanges all sell it, and many countries have local ones that accept local payment methods. Buy a little more than you plan to deposit, because a transfer costs a small fee and some exchanges set a minimum withdrawal.

Log in to the poker room, open the cashier or deposit page, and choose USDT. The room then asks which network to use. USDT exists on several blockchains, and a transfer only arrives if the network you choose in your wallet or exchange is the same one you chose in the cashier. The names differ a little between apps; this table matches them up.

WePlay takes USDT on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain or Tron, and nothing but crypto. Basepoker takes USDT on Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Binance Smart Chain or TON, and eight other coins. If the network you want is not in the cashier's list, do not send on it. Change the network in your exchange instead.

The cashier shows a deposit address, a long string of letters and numbers, often with a QR code. Copy it with the copy button rather than by hand, paste it into the send screen of your exchange, and compare the first four and the last four characters before you confirm. Some exchanges also ask for a memo or tag; the poker room's cashier will show one if it is needed, and otherwise you leave it empty.

Send a small amount first, ten dollars or so, and wait for it to appear in the room. Once it has, send the rest. The test costs you one extra network fee and saves you from losing the whole deposit to a wrong address or network.

Fees and times depend on the network, not on the room. Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Solana and TON usually cost a few cents and arrive within a few minutes. Tron costs a dollar or two. Ethereum is the expensive one: its fee is often several dollars and can be much more when the network is busy, so it only makes sense for a large deposit. The exchange shows the fee before you confirm.

The room credits the deposit after the network has confirmed it. Most of the time that is within five minutes. Ethereum can take a little longer.

1. Find the transaction in your exchange or wallet and copy its transaction ID, a long code sometimes called a hash or TXID.
2. Look the ID up on the network's explorer, such as bscscan.com for Binance Smart Chain, etherscan.io for Ethereum, polygonscan.com for Polygon, solscan.io for Solana or tronscan.org for Tron. It shows whether the transfer has gone through and to which address.
3. If the explorer shows it as complete and the room still shows nothing after half an hour, send the transaction ID to the room's support.
4. If you sent on a network the room does not list, tell support at once and before anything else. Recovery is sometimes possible and often not, which is why the test deposit matters.

The minimum deposit is $10 at WePlay and $1 at Basepoker. The welcome bonus at each room is tied to a first deposit of a certain size: $50 or more at WePlay, $20 or more at Basepoker, where you also switch the bonus on in the deposit window. If you want a bonus, read the bonus terms before the first deposit, because a first deposit only happens once.

A withdrawal is the same transfer in reverse: you give the room an address from your wallet or exchange, on a network the room supports, and it sends. Basepoker pays out from $10 with no fee beyond the network cost. WePlay pays out any amount at any time. Keep on the room only what you play with, and move the rest back to your own wallet now and then.

• Turn on two-factor authentication at the room and at the exchange on the day you open the account.
• Use a password for the poker room that you use nowhere else.
• Type the room's address into the browser or use your own bookmark. Do not follow links from messages.
• Nobody from a poker room, and nobody from this site, will ever ask you to send crypto to a personal wallet. Deposits go only to the address in the cashier.