What changed?

Hi, First of all I'm 18 so I wasn't playing poker when black friday occured. However, I'm interested in knowing what changed in the black friday thing? What did the legislation do to american online poker?

Insider Breakdown Of Poker's Black Friday

Darren Rovell | @darrenrovell
Monday, 18 Apr 2011 | 3:06 PM ETCNBC.com



On Friday, the owners of the biggest online poker sites, pokerstars, full tilt poker and Absolute Poker, were arrested and the sites were shutdown in the United States after the FBI alleged that the sites laundered money and defrauded banks to get around gambling laws.

Jollocks said:

Hi, First of all I'm 18 so I wasn't playing poker when black friday occured. However, I'm interested in knowing what changed in the black friday thing? What did the legislation do to american online poker?

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You have a lot of reading to do. Just use google and you'll find what you need on forums, articles and such.

I can't speak first hand as to what it did to American online poker (though "just about killed it" seems accurate), but as far as the rest of the world goes it's meant a huge decline in action and traffic.

Used to be you could log in pretty much any time of the day or night and the major sites (Stars, Tilt) would have loads of games running at pretty much all stakes. STTs were my regular game around the time of Black Friday, and I pretty much never needed to wait more than a minute for one to fill. After Black Friday, I'd be waiting ages, some games wouldn't fill at all. Even now there's often only a few cash game tables running at stakes where before Black Friday there would have been dozens up.

Major cliff Notes
Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet, Full Tilt, and Pokerstars all removed from the U.S. Now we have scraps left, but sites like Bovada have grown because of it.

jsh169 said:

Major cliff Notes
Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet, Full Tilt, and Pokerstars all removed from the U.S. Now we have scraps left, but sites like Bovada have grown because of it.

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I knew that large poker sites have shut to us players. However, Why are some sites like bovada, black chip, full flush and carbon allowed to stay open to the us where full tilt, stars etc isnt?

OzExorcist said:

I can't speak first hand as to what it did to American online poker (though "just about killed it" seems accurate), but as far as the rest of the world goes it's meant a huge decline in action and traffic.

Used to be you could log in pretty much any time of the day or night and the major sites (Stars, Tilt) would have loads of games running at pretty much all stakes. STTs were my regular game around the time of Black Friday, and I pretty much never needed to wait more than a minute for one to fill. After Black Friday, I'd be waiting ages, some games wouldn't fill at all. Even now there's often only a few cash game tables running at stakes where before Black Friday there would have been dozens up.

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All of this sounds pretty much like how it was/is.............