I too, being from the US can not play for $$'s at those world class sites such as
partypoker or pokerstars. Hopefully someday soon we will be allowed to play along side fellow pokerplayers from around the world, all together at the same table or same MTT, just as we had in the past.
For now I'm stuck with less favorable options than the poker titans such as partypoker. I find myself playing a majority of my 6man SnG's on the bovada/ignition network and most of my higher limit MTT's on ACR.
I've even enjoyed betonline but ended up giving them up since I can't get the dumpy software to launch successfully even after reinstalling multiple times.
In my opinion poker is such a great game that it could actually bring world peace and a sense of community that has no borders. Such a shame it is so tightly regulated in the online platform, it should be available to all worldwide. Looking back 20 years from now we just might see that online poker is what brings worldwide peace. lol.
I hope to see you all at the tables someday, if you see me better holla at me.