on a scale of 1-10, how bad is this for a european full time player?

[excession]

sorry I have made more money on the B2B network than anywhere - I don't buy the 'scandies are better line' - I would say that brits are more weak-tight though..

I think we will see some juicy bonuses as sites with spare cash but with their market share slashed start fighting for customers and what big MTT's are left move to euro-hours..

[HSB]

As far as I can tell this is going to end up having very little impact.

[axioma]

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As far as I can tell this is going to end up having very little impact.

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i hope youre right. today though the games were noticibly worse than usual...

[Sigurd]

This thread has left me wondering:
What kind of new and wonderfull oportunities to profit will all this stuff bring to the European players?

[PoorTom]

I think it's too early to assume there's going to be any overall drop in the number of US players - i think several non-US based sites will continue to accept US players, and I don't see how the government is going to be able to stop people from getting money into and out of those places. Where there's a will, there's inevitably a way. It seems likely the regulations on the banks will be very difficult to enforce and may well be challenged in any case.

At this stage I actually think the main impact will be the stop on advertising, along with the *possibly* increased difficulty of funding accounts. More than anything it will halt the expansion of poker by turning away new casual players and taking poker back out of the mainstream somewhat. I do think when the dust settles most of those currently playing will continue playing, just maybe not in the places they currently do. So this is an impact, but not the end of the world.

You also have to consider that the market for poker worldwide is potentially very large, and has not really been tapped outside the US and Europe. I'd be looking for some of these sites to start expanding their businesses agressively in new territories (asia in particular) if the number of US players does drop signficantly for any reason.

[BK1248]

europeans play as bad as their teeth look