Joined: Jun '09
Location: United States
Age: 69 (M)
Posts: 291
I never played all that much at either site even before Black Friday so no big lost to me. Before 2006 there were so many great poker sites for USA players so PS and FT I never really played at much. Now I'm in a league that has two $300 FR's on the weekend and they are played on a Merge site. So there is always some where to play for us players from the states or at least for me anyway. I'm still playing a lot and Black Friday hasn't hurt me that much at all. The only site I really miss is UB out of the four. Power Poker just dropped out of the USA market but if you already had an account there you are still good to go so I'm fine there also. As long as the Merge Network and Cake Network keep running I have plenty of poker rooms to play at. Good luck to everyone at the tables both online and live. CH
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Nice to hear, I guess its only truly a problem for people who have money trapped on the site, and I hate to say it, but why would anyone keep a full roll on any site, you only need what your playing with, If I was playing PRO I would cash in and out daily, at least weekly. GL at the felt crazy
Joined: Jan '11
Location: Romania
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 167
I;m not afected by black friday since i'm not from usa, anyway i play on fulltilt, but there are others sites prety good. One site is cake pokere prety decent not extrordanary
Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 852
So naive....You don't think the feds will come after other sites? It's only a matter of time. Black Friday is an inconvenience for many poker players, because you got the most action. Now if all your into is freerolls then, maybe there are other site's to play on. I've thought of joining WPT, for the chance to win a satellite into one of their events. I personally am just spending more time playing live as there are plenty of live casino's and action where I am at.
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
I'm with hoodi here, it's basically just a matter of time untill fbi will hunt the other poker platforms that allow united states players on their real money poker tables. Not sure if you remember but the same thing happend with party poker before the black friday when they almost suffered a 50% loss of poker traffic after united states players weren't allowed anymore on their real money poker tables. I'm pretty sure that after a year or even less the same thing will happen with all the poker platforms from the cake network and the merge network. Of course untill that moment will come still play on these poker platforms as usual, be sure that other platforms will appear then and so on. I also thing in a year or less US will make a law to regulate the online gambling sites, this would be the only right thing to do. Good luck at the tables from Cake and Merge!
Joined: Jun '09
Location: United States
Age: 69 (M)
Posts: 291
Posted by hoodi420: So naive....You don't think the feds will come after other sites? It's only a matter of time. Black Friday is an inconvenience for many poker players, because you got the most action. Now if all your into is freerolls then, maybe there are other site's to play on. I've thought of joining WPT, for the chance to win a satellite into one of their events. I personally am just spending more time playing live as there are plenty of live casino's and action where I am at.
Right now I don't care what the Feds do I'll deal with that when the time comes so for now I don't give a fck. As far as calling me naive son first I'm twice your age so I been playing poker as long as you been alive and then some and I know everything that has been going on with online poker since 2006. Since you know so much please explain to me how Black Friday came to be since I'm naive and you seem to know so much. I'll be waiting for your answer. Also my post was about I don't miss PS and FT and your off ranting how the Feds will come after other sites so my advice to you is simple just relax and see what the future brings.
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
as long as merge and cake dont get targeted by FBI , US people have a place to play and in future these are gonna get bigger. though pending withdrawals of US players is a big problem for them, hope they resolve it soon.
