select as many answers that apply

I waited a couple of days.

I withdrew half my bankroll, and continued to play a couple times a week as normal with the $100 that was left.

I moved up to replace all the missing US players at midstakes

I started playing poker

pissed away 30k playing usa sites while drinking heavy. moved abroad to continue chasing all of the above

I chose other because I stopped playing online, but continued playing live.

I kept being a rec player.

stupidly took my money off of bodog and didn't start playing there again for about a year and a half until my dad got really sick and i wasn't able to travel for poker.

i was afraid it would be the next to go and didn't want my money stolen.

basically since then played live and on bodog with a brief stint on full flush until it was obvious they were gonna screw everyone.

this

You took a wrong turn at BBV

Not sure if first statements were levels but I also started playing poker. Lol

got better, continued winning online. won some live but i'm not big on spending time in casinos.

Called myself a lucky SOB because I had taken out all of my roll from FT in the two months before.

went and got thai at my favorite spot. told the waitress i had no reason to live when she asked how my day was going.

Did you see the trouble comming? Suspected something maybe?

I count myself triple lucky because all money I started with on FT came from a free roll, I never had to deposit, and I lost all but twenty-six cents before Black Friday.

writing was def on the wall for months before BF that FTP was probably somewhere near insolvent, the withdrawals became insanely backlogged sometime in 2010. i even had a bounced check from them at one point. i played there for 3 yrs and the withdrawal situation became such an ordeal that i just ended up doing a player xfer and swapping for stars money sometime around summer 2010 i think. this was a few months after the collapse of intabill iirc, when ftp was taking phantom deposits or w/e they called them and crediting depositors' accounts with cash despite not being able to charge their cards

lol such scandalous **** that went on over there, those dudes were gambling so hard with the fate of the business