This is great! Can anyone confirm if you live in ny but go to nj you can play ?? I'm sure Sunday's will have great gtds.

IL needs to hop in on this!!! A great way to pull itself out of debt!

You just have to be in NJ to play, not live there.

Great!

Sounds like a good thing.

stoked to hear pokerstars is back in us.

no, you don't want ROW to play. The rest of the world has been playing online everyday the last 4 years and would destroy the NJ/usa games. you would just be increasing the shark/fish ratio. It's not the absolute number of players, it's the QUALITY of the players that matters as long as you can always find a game. Keep the USA recreational pool all to ourselves, ROW out (sorry row).

In NJ I would imagine The Sunday Thousand.

Worst post I've ever seen

:P funny one aren't you

Holy **** this is terrible. I am actually going to suggest that you delete this post.

Totally agree. I play professionally on a NV only site and I have no doubt a U.S only player pool would be much fishier than a bunch of grinder bots from around the world. NV is also a HUDless state which is a Godsend.

100% agree

I guess you'd rather invite all of the 3rd world countries that can grind micro stakes for pennies and live like kings? The USA is the biggest player pool in the world and a huge chunk of it all but gave up on poker. Why would you want players that have been playing in very hard games joining the pool? A regulated US market would still be huge, with or without the ROW.

There is a reason Bovada is the best site in the world to play on right now.....

+1 We need a wall to keep ROW out.

Keep American fish for the Americans.

Daayum. This could be the (re)start of something big.

I agree with this so long as the as long as is satisfied, but its a tough condition to satisfy if observation of the admittedly smaller Nevada market is any guide.

Its worse for specialists.

how does this only have 5 pages? over or under on 20 pages by end of next day?

Hahaha what a joke!pathetic and short sighted a worldwide player pool is clearly better for everyone!u stay with ur 1-2 states

All the people saying keep it to just NJ or US I see the sunday 50k coming soon on pokerstars NJ

You're right **** the ROW players let them have their sunday million. Why would you want a larger player base it makes no sense. You idiots

Nah, please forgive my brusqueness. It's easy to forget that a lot of people have tuned out the US online poker saga, see the thread title, and figure this might mean something bigger than it does.

Is this some kind of strange level I'm not getting?

I agree in the short term that ROW playing with the US pool might not be great for the games in the US, but long term I think less segregation is a good thing for everyone. More choice is better. There will always be harder and easier sites, depending on the conditions - like this example:

Actually, there are many reasons. If it was only about US players, WPN wouldn't have such a reputation for being tough - and yes, I know they're open to a lot more countries. But I think anonymous tables, 4 table limit, no rakeback/bonuses, and other pro-unfriendly features play a pretty big role as well.

Of course, it's all rather academic, as this hypothetical is likely years away from even being a possibility.

nofair18 is correct. USA pool ONLY would be the absolute nuts. The average income of the depositers is way ahead of ROW and the midstakes game would florish. At Svenska Spel (Swedish Site for Swedish players only) The best players there can pull $30k+ months at equilavence of 3/6 on 20k hand samples. Friend of mine just had a 42k month in 20k hands. However games are very often 200bb as default as that is the max on every table and been for years and for some reason swedes love to play deep. Other gamevariants are dead though except for HU PLO, but remember its a 9 million ppl country with avg income of like $3,5k, the US have 10.1 million MILLIONAIRES and despite the small number of ppl living in Sweden it is the softest site by FAR online(not counting BOVADA since ive never played it.)

The argument isn't about 1-2 states. It's a U.S. player pool vs worldwide

Ur going to wait for a USA wide player pool gl with that I'll take the over on 10 years

Just 2 more states pooled together like CA and FL would be better than any poker site in the world. In fact, a CA only poker site would be the best poker site on the planet.

The average American doesn't want to play with a bunch of shady Russians that can cheat with no repercussions.