Quote Originally Posted by daviddem View Post
Disclaimer: this may be an extremely bad idea, and may get you in trouble (and it might not work)

If you are a US player and you can't play and your funds are blocked in FTP or PS, you *could* try to use a VPN to fake being in Europe or elsewhere in the world. If the only method used by the poker rooms to determine your location is IP geolocation, it will work. Im my experience, that is what they do in normal cicumstances to decide if you are eligible to play in some regional tournaments or your country is restricted from playing on the site, etc. However in this case I am not sure whether they took extra precautions such as looking at registered addresses and origin of your deposits.

Regardless, it may be a bad idea as you would be breaking the law and the regulations of the poker rooms. Just giving the info in case you want to take the chance. Just Google "VPN providers" and you shall find. At some point I was using UltraVPN to play from Saudi Arabia and the Philippines and was happy with their price and service, but there are many others out there. I now have set up my own OpenVPN server on the router of my parents' house in Belgium, so when I need to I connect to it for free. Other advantage is that their IP is never going to make it to some blacklist of commercial VPN providers... So if you have knowledgeable friends in Europe who are willing to share a bit of their bandwidth with you, that would be the way to go.
Did you play at Pstars or FTP?

Pstars Rep said they have sophisticated means of seeing where you're at - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=987