UK / Non-American Poker Pros

[Lizard King]

If the fish are gone most of the TAGs will go too. Average TAGs like me would try get real jobs with benefits instead of playing for the equvalent of poker minumun wage below $20/h. There will be an almost natural balance cause the sharks will starve without the fish to feed on.

[jukofyork]

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If the fish are gone most of the TAGs will go too. Average TAGs like me would try get real jobs with benefits instead of playing for the equvalent of poker minumun wage below $20/h. There will be an almost natural balance cause the sharks will starve without the fish to feed on.

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AKA the classic "foxes and rabbits" model.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[excession]

"Look at the bright side, the sunday tournaments will be less bingo =)"

And hopefully moved to more sociable hours for Euro-players with jobs to go to on Monday.

For UK decent amateurs/semi-pros I think this may have a positive effect. There are going to be some great bonuses opening up as sites try to grab Euro market share, worldwide peak times of big MTT's may well switch to Europe and as 80% of my money comes from Crypto and B2B anyway (very few if any US fish) it isn't going to hurt me much for one..

This doesn't mean that the whole thing doesn't suck but unless you were a Party/Stars specialist I don't see why you would be personally concerned as a Euro-player.

[Herrigel]

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...unless you were a Party/Stars specialist I don't see why you would be personally concerned as a Euro-player.

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Does that mean a Party/Stars specialist is not capable of beating other games. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[SuperJez]

LETS ALL PLAY THE MILLION DOLLAR GUARANTEE THE WEEK THE USAS KICKED OFF

[blueodum]

The danger in Canada will arise only if Stephen Harper remains prime minister for the long-term. He's so pro-US that he's bound to have ideas about copying this new legislation.

There are several gaming software providers based in Canada, so that should help a little. And of course there is the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (a semi-autonomous Indian reserve) which licenses a bunch of these sites. I don't think the feds will go out of their way to piss these guys off.

[PokeReader]

My understanding is that Canada was collatoral damage for the short term. Too technically difficult to pick out the Canadan ISPs from US. Could be wrong or too early.

[excession]

Well it means they might have to move out of their comfort zone - certainly different sites play very differently at the same level..they may also have to play different games or put up with much worse table selection unless they play something popular like $200 NL 6 max.

Lots of the US bonus whores complained about getting their butts kicked when they tried B2B despite being 'winning players at Party' for example.

[PokeReader]

Article with possibility Canada will get knocked off-line discussed,

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Content...4&t=TS_Home