"Resides in" or "lives in" or "located in."
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Those who live in the United States and United States Territories are not permitted to make deposits into their accounts or engage in real-money play. They may cash out their existing account balances. Those who live or are located in other nations are not permitted to engage in real-money play while there are in the United States. Any attempt to circumvent the restrictions on play by anyone living in the U.S. or U.S. Territories, and by those who reside in other nations while located in the United States, is a breach of this Agreement. An attempt at circumvention includes, but is not limited to, manipulating the information used by PokerStars to identify your location and providing PokerStars with false or misleading information regarding where you live.
The point is: I can live in some other country and establish an address there without being a citizen or official resident of that country.
I can also move to some other country while still being a citizen or resident of the United States.
"Resident" in the official context is causing a lot of confusion. When Stars clearly is just talking about "where you are living and/or located." Stars does not expect any of their players moving to Canada to become official residents of the country and attempt to get citizenship there. But their own regulations when interpreted literally really do imply that and require further clarification that they don't really mean what it says.
Further, it's completely fine to be a citizen or resident of the United States and play on Pokerstars....if I have residency somewhere else and play from there. They need to stop saying that U.S. residents can't play on their site. They can. Stars is incorrectly implying that U.S. residents need to renounce their residency. And some U.S. citizens are misinterpreting that too and think they have to break away from their country in some official way. They don't. They just have to have some apartment or house in Canada or Mexico or somewhere else and move there (likely not permanently of course).
FWIW, most of us in the U.S. are citizens and not residents. The term "resident" is used for somebody in the process of trying to get their citizenship. Somebody with a "green card" for example becomes an official U.S. resident. It's the same thing. A "residency card" is the thing many know as a "green card." A non-American can get residency in the U.S. through an official work permit or marriage (or by applying via a relative who has gained citizenship).