Black Friday

My view on the subject is conditioned by the fact that we all knew this could totally happen. PS and FT were breaking the law by doing financial transactions with US players and at some point the Government was going to punish them.

In any case, it still amazes me how in a country that is supposed to be the land of the free, the government doesn't allow their citizens to play poker or bet online.

The more practical effects I see:

I believe PS will still be leading the market for the moment, but in the mid-term they face some difficulties because most countries are starting to regulate (Spain is next- the law should be out around june), and when they apply for a license I don't know how the governments will react regarding their status.

FT looks grimmer since most of their player pool was American.

I had more or less decided to try and finish the SNE quest before WSOP this year, and now I think I will double my efforts in order to make it.

A lot of people have panicked about their online rolls, and as far as I know, PS keeps segregated accounts as per Isle of Man laws, so in theory there should be no problem with that. With the other sites I really don't know how they work and would be a little more worried.

Why is it too much to ask to have some intelligent people making a fair regulation of online poker in order to let us all the poker players in the planet play against each other??? (In twitter terms I would add here #utopia)