You'll always be able to play one way or another. I don't think they will ever make it completely illegal in the U.S.

Play live obviously.

Well, why do you think that when everything the gov is doing they are doing with the intention to shut it down completely?

Also, how much have you played on PartyPoker since the UIGEA? See, if things get too difficult for the major sites to keep scrambling processors and such, they may just pull out of the US market.

Without the US market, FTP, PS and/or other poker sites will go bankrupt. They will do a lot to stay in US market.

Your mom.

Haven't read the whole thread, hope nobody beat me to it.

Made me Lol.

OP, 2+2 has a penchant for sarcasm, nothing personal. I think it's a relevant question.

Sure, online poker could end someday. But so could a lot of jobs. We'd probably do what all the others have done, break out the classifieds...

It would suck, but we'd survive.

This is really the point JasonInDallas. I've made the phone calls and sent the e-mails that the PPA suggested so I'm not saying to just sit back and see what happens.

But, as with anything else in the world, supply and demand usually dictates the outcome of such issues. If the online game leave the U.S. (which, again, I doubt it will), just remember - if there are poker players there will be poker games.

Anyway, thanks for the new word. Imagine, I didn't even know what "ascerbic" meant until tonight! Maybe we're not well equipped for the business world!

Amount of sympathy felt by me towards people losing their jobs in the next year:

George W. Bush < Bank CEOs < Online poker pros < pedophiles fired for exposing themselves to schoolchildren < Rod Marinelli <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Anyone getting laid off

I'll go to a live casino and inhale everyone's flop sweat until I pass out. Then it's on to Boulder Downs, where I'll put my whole roll on Sabre Tooth to win. Come on, Sabre Tooth! I'll take my winnings and launch a television ministry, so I can sleep with lots of slutty chicks without anyone suspecting.

Who am I kidding? Within three years I'll be bragging about all the skanks and have to give that up. I'll parlay my winnings from the ministry into a political career. I'll have to be a Republican, because otherwise I won't be able to get the votes of the people who care about morals. I'll run on a freevert platform and bring about legal tax-free poker. Then I'll get bored with collecting dirt on my fellow politicians, and I'll go back to playing bare-bottom poker all night long.

I'll be playing starcraft 2 sit and go's...



and the mother of OP.

ROTFLMAO LOOLLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLO

id probably just move to canada

...with your mom ldo

yep, just like party poker did.....wait a minute

Grunch

I'll be doing your mom.

Worst case?

IP workaround, play on Party etc....there's always a way. Lower profits? Sure, but still better than 99+% of the US.

You really don't have to worry about the pros, when there's 100's of thousands at stake, people will find a way to play on these sites. Banned or not.

lol, great

OP is a dumbass question thinly veiling a lameassed brag about what he thinks is impressive. Don't say it isn't a brag, it's a brag whether you like it or not because nothing changes in content if you were to leave out the part about getting a license and working on a business. Even worse, you asked a question you already know the answer to.

/rant

Anybody (including me) making money playing online poker is going to continue to do so until they can't. It's that fkn simple. Now that I look back on it, literally nothing has changed from pre-UIGEA to post-UIGEA to now except the amount of ******s who won't fold a 7 on a K77 flop when I'm pot-jamming with KKxx. That and the particular sites that I regularly play on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJZifBxcLI

If online poker goes away in the US, BFD. Anyone smart enough to make money from it is smart enough to succeed in something, anything else. There's no such thing as the "real world" it's just a lie you've got to rise above. Bone Thugs and John Mayer references in the same post FTW!

I would break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No. I go for the chandelier. It’s priceless. As I’m taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It’s her father’s business. She’s Tiffany. I say ‘no’. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada. I don’t trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later I get a postcard. I have a son and he’s the chief of police. – This is where the story gets interesting. – I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadéro. She’s been waiting for me all these years. She’s never taken another lover. I don’t care. I don’t show up. I go to Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier.

There isn't a single thread in the Zoo today deserving of this high quality reply.

Watch Ron Paul video s on you tube.This man may be the last great hope for a great America/world. Wont every1 just play live poker. The casino s and cardrooms must be delighted by UIEGA.

Follow it? Where's it going? The sky isn't falling, it's just being shot at, and the bullets are falling back to earth. I take my government's offenses to liberty seriously, though, and am doing my part to reverse them. I suggest everybody else do the same:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57...ations-342377/

I played poker professionally before there even was internet poker so yeah, I'm not too worried. People have gambled for millenia and will continue to do so no matter what anyone tries to tell them.

They're not. Harrah's would stand to profit from better publicity for online poker:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57...2009-a-346619/

when the hell is this game comin out already?

his mother is out every night according to this thread

Yeah I'm gearing up for a possible 2-month deadline and all is gone. Waking up to Epassporte leaving the market I remember that day. It felt the same as 9/11 ... strikes you by surprise and you feel its the end. I even said that out loud, doomsday has happened, and I spent the entire day wondering, what comes next!

So if I have this 2-month warning when UIGEA regulations are finally set (banks have until December 1st, 2009 to comply so Im sure we'll have a few more months) I plan on getting back into trading currencies. I did so before poker and it yields the same results. You can hit big, you can lose big. Its just another form of gambling ... but legalized! And it takes skill just the same as poker. Analyzing the charts, paying attention to news feeds (the fundamentals), in poker this would be related to gathering information from the other players then analyzing the flop and how it has been played. When you make your bet ... you intialize your trade. Trading is also a game of patience.

However a larger bankroll is required for trading (but you can trade with as little as $50), and some knowledge is needed. You can receive free courses, or pay a small fee the same as you would purchasing a book on poker. With poker you can turn $50 into a few hundred getting lucky in a MTT, with trading it would take longer. I can double a large poker bankroll in 1 week (100% ROI). With currency trading, between 10% and 100% of bankroll. Risk is the same in both. But trading takes up much less of your time which is a benefit. You can get in a trade after 2 hours of analyzing and let it sit for a few days. Or you can be glued to the computer watching every move it makes and make a few trades a day. And of course, you'll go through the same frustrations lol. Not as bad though.

So that can be a back up option for any of you making a living online with poker. My sister is paralyzed so not able to work, poker helps supplement her income. A friend of mine is on disability cause of health reasons and plays poker for a little money as well. Im sure some of you may be in the same predicament, not able to find work, especially with all these lay offs and business failures. If you make an income with poker ... find a back up plan much like the questioner is asking for. I read the first page of this thread and lol Im not gonna comment. Its a really good question looking for serious answers.