Hi, I'm new. Sort of...

Originally Posted by Nostalgia

1) What about the US players who play for dollars and not just nickels? You aren't seriously saying that only microstakes poker is played on these sites, are you? What makes playing 200nl on WPN different than playing 200nl on Pokerstars? Anything? You're projecting sheer nonsense and ignorance. If US players would just stop whining and being point blank uninformed like the OP everything would be just fine again. There's nothing stopping 1 million + US players from signing up and playing high stakes poker on WPN or Revolution right now except ridiculous spam like your post.

2) He comes on the forum and curses and screams like a baby and you welcome him back and beg him to stay? Good to know that this is the kind of behavior that's tolerated here. This combined with the advertisement trolls that you take four days to notice make this forum look really good in comparison to the other major poker sites around the web. I guess I can just start calling people whatever name I feel like when I get upset too.

the fact that there are many players that are members here on FTR and on other forums with tens of thousands of their bankrolls still unpayed. The fact that the US govt already tried to shut down the big sites. As soon as the sites like WPN become anything more than an inconveineince the US govt will shut those down too and anyone playing with a bankroll in the Thousands of dollars to play 200NL will again lose that money and maybe this time for good.

Originally Posted by jyms

the fact that there are many players that are members here on FTR and on other forums with tens of thousands of their bankrolls still unpayed. The fact that the US govt already tried to shut down the big sites. As soon as the sites like WPN become anything more than an inconveineince the US govt will shut those down too and anyone playing with a bankroll in the Thousands of dollars to play 200NL will again lose that money and maybe this time for good.

Why do you think the US government has jurisdiction over sites based in Europe or South America?

This is just paranoia you're suffering. The FedGov has absolutely nothing to do with any of these sites like WPN.

I mean I can understand being hesitant to rejoin a market in which you got screwed for thousands already but that really was a sort of one hit wonder by my lovely government. They have absolutely no power whatsoever to go and "shut down" WPN or Revolution. I wish some of you would confirm your paranoia before making asinine statements like this and just scaring away new US players so that we can never get the kind of traffic you see over on Stars. It's beyond ignorant and irritating.

Since you failed to answer it in any way, shape, or form: Why did you assert that US players can only play for "pennies" on sites like WPN and Revolution? This is totally false. Why would you make such a statement? The fact that a few morons fear monsters under there bed every time they deposit on a poker site these days really has nothing to do with the reality of the matter. Online poker is alive and well in the US and at all stakes. If someone chooses not to play because of what happened to Stars or FullTilt now over half a decade ago I would once again refer them to the beginning of my post. The US government has absolutely no jurisdiction over the popular US facing sites of today like they did over Stars and Tilt.