I've been researching Estonia a bit and it seems like it may be possible for an American to relocate there on a residency visa. I'm thinking about Tallinn. Anyone that lives there have any advice? Specific advice on poker players obtaining a residency visa would be much appreciated.

Too bad Thremp was banned, not really, but he would have been helpful here, not really, but he could have been.

u realize its ****ing cold there, tho, right?!

well, some helpful links:

General Info for foreign nationals by Estonian Foreign Ministry:
http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/node/53

Residence permit information by Police and Border Guard Board:
http://www.politsei.ee/en/teenused/residence-permit/

Real estate sites:
http://www.kv.ee/
http://www.city24.ee/

Yep, as cold as Canada or Scandinavia. So plenty of time (and better motivation) for poker in winter months

Still it's true, long/dark/cold winter period might be kinda depressing... even place like London is much more tolerable in winter. So maybe it's better to travel to some warmer climate in these months.

I lived in Tallinn for a year. Thremp made a thread about this (in this forum?) a couple of years ago where we talked about a lot of this stuff.

Probably this:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/92...stonia-510576/

If they let Thremp in they definitely have low standards. I woudln't let that guy anywhere near my country if I was in charge.

Yo.

Tallinn is awesome, but if I remember right it s not possible to play on stars and ftp since 1 year (protectionist law). Take a look at the legislation forum.

You can play on Stars vs. their global player pool. I have confirmed that.

Really interested to hear what the application process is like for residency if anyone has done that.

+1

The PokerStars .ee client is pretty much identical to .com. Off the top of my head, the only differences I can think of are that the lobby is designed differently and that you can't do player transfers.

hello everybody, im new here. I'm 21 yrs old and I live in Tallinn, Estonia.

I have been reading 2plus2 for a long time, but never posted anything, so now when I saw that theres an interest bout Estonia, I'd made an acc and thought that I could answer to your questions about Estonia.

Feel free to ask anything

November-March quite cold, May to September very warm, like 30 degrees celcius)

Officiali you can play PokerStars, TrioBet (MicroGaming), Olympic-Online (IPoker) and Paf (OnGame). Other sites are blocked but in reality if you change your dns to google DNS you can play on every site (u can do it in less than one minue)

Just right now one of my US friend moved to estonia (SNE in PokerStars, known 2p2-er, he can out self if he wants) 3-4 weeks ago and now getting recidency. It costs like €1000-€1500 and u getting it for two or three years. Easy to get.

Estonia is very good for poker players because in the winter, quite cold here (-10 to -30 degrees celcisu), daylight is only 7-8 hours not more and it's very good time to grind. In the summer days are like 16-17 hours long (the sun rises like 2-3 AM, sets 23 PM), very hot and warm summers.

Also Estonian IT services are very good and probably most developed in the world. Free wifi is absolutely every pub, hotel, gas station, even in the parks.

Living expenses are quite cheap. You can get very baller appartment into Tallinn old-town (best and almost most expensive block in Tallinn) for €500-€600 per month.

Also we have lots of woods, very beautiful beaches and in the winter time you can travel to southern europe/north africa very fast and cheap for vacation.

Finally we have lots of pokerplayers in Estonia, some of them are very good. According the PTR: http://www.pokertableratings.com/top-countries we are in 5-th winning country in the world. So I guarantee it's very good place for poker players.

If u get boored u can travel somewhere else in the europe, it's not the big deal.

If you have any questions - feel free to ask.

EDIT: one thing more. lots of people think that Estonia is 'standard' eastern europe russian style country. But it's not true, estonia is more to western country than russian.

And almost everyone speak here english, so no need to learn any other languages