Jollocks
Rock Star
Silver Level
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?
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?
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.
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.