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Message: [QUOTE="fx20736, post: 1762521, member: 71445"] I blame ESPN, The Game Show Network, NBC,etc. for promoting Online Gambling heavily, both through their sponsors, the advertisers and the logos displayed by players on TV, despite the fact that the UIGEA was law. I doubt very much if the vast majority of US Players knew that they were giving money to businesses that were breaking the law. I know I didn't. And shame on the FCC for not restricting these companies from advertising. Imagine the Mafia advertising on Cable TV? Who knows why suddenly the ground shifted and the DOJ turned out the lights on the party. One thing is for certain, the Federal Government did a lousy job of protecting US consumers. Then it pulled the plug and left them out to dry. It's as if they all looked the other way for years while more and more people became crack addicts and then one day were suddenly able to shut down the biggest crack dealers in the country. Of course in this case there are thousands of law abiding citizens who found a way to earn a living playing poker online and suddenly their livelihood was taken away from them. For US players, I'm afraid things will just continue to get worse. Slowly, one by one these Casinos will withdraw from the US because they face too much exposure and liability to continue to operate here. As far as US players go:No offense, but posts that ask where it is safe to deposit or which sites still accept US Players is completely analogous to drug seeking behavior. It ISN'T going to improve. We have an election next year and making online poker legal won't see any light in Congress until [I]at least[/I] 2013. The Party is over. I feel really bad for those with substantial sums of money on Full Tilt (or Absolute Poker/UB) but with each passing day it seems less and less likely that any of you will see any of your money, and for all his good intentions, Phil Ivey's lawsuit will only drag this out even farther. In a lot of ways this is a f*cked up country. We are the only Modern Society that doesn't offer Universal Health Care to its' residents, we still kill each other by the tens of thousands yearly because we won't give up our guns. We have a tax code that is skewed all the way for the rich and we have built our communities so that you need 2+ cars per family just to carry on the basic functions of daily life. So to expect some rational logic to prevail and allow as innocuous an activity as poker to be legal is a pipe dream. I know I am no longer an active member of Cardschat but if I can do anything helpful to each of you who play online poker in the US, it is this: Quit playing. Period. Easier said than done, I know, especially if a big part of your daily routine or identity is bound up playing, but it is the sane thing to do. You may go through a grieving process, may need therapy but in the long run you will be better for it. Me, I am in a tailspin but not because I can't play poker. It is because I am out of dreams. I have no more ambition or hope that I will ever be anything more than I am today, a middle aged, middle class, middle manager who lives just to raise a family. Unless I were to win a lottery, I will never drive a fancy car, never have a big house, never have sex with beautiful young nymphs. It's not that my life is bad, in fact by most people's standards it is pretty good. I have two healthy, good looking kids who do well in school and sports, a decent house, a pool, central air, a big HDTV. I eat well, drink better and have a better wife than I deserve. It's just in America we all dream of being somebody, an All-Pro NFL Quarterback, President of the United States, the inventor of the next big thing, a Wall Street Tycoon, the author of the Great American Novel. No one aspires to living in the suburbs, driving a Toyota and having sex with the same homely woman year after year. I am going to learn to appreciate all the great things I have. I am unplugging from society. I do my job, come home, pop open a beer and unwind with a great big FTW. And when I die, my funeral will be all of my wife's friends in one room and a year after that it will be as if I never existed. [MEDIA=youtube]h59mDlBSt7o[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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