The fallout of Black Friday of online poker on American poker players
From Las Vegas there are deep sighs of resentment, what with the fate of hundreds of thousands of professional poker players at stake after the U.S. federal ruling on major online poker sites on 15th April 2011.
This day has come to be known as Black Friday in the U.S. and those who have been hit the most used to make about thousands of dollars and live the high life. But alas now, the scenario has changed drastically and they are all faced with a prospect of moving to pastures more suitable top online poker, like Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico.
The three most heavily hit sites are Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker. These professional poker players were in the age group of 20-50 years and don’t have any proper education or life skills so they are in doldrums as to what to do now. The online poker enthusiast do not like the real poker games as they tend to be slower paced and more expensive. Another fall out of the Black Friday is that lots of player money is stuck with the sites that have shut shop and may take years for the players to recover their money. After the boom of the online casinos in the late nineties, there were many people who quit their bread-and-butter jobs for online poker so they would have to go back to low-paying jobs again.
On the whole the mood of online casinos and gambling sites seems to be hit the most and has cast a pall of gloom on the whole online casino industry in the U.S.