![]() ![]() Its where, you are psysically located, when you try to log on the site. However its not your nationality or even country of residence, that determine, if you can play. This is also why, PokerStars go aggressively after US based players trying to cheat them with VPNs or whatever. It was part of the deal between PokerStars and US authorities after "Black Friday", that PokerStars would no longer allow people to play while in the US. ![]() As authorities have tried to go after poker sites in many ofter grey market countries. But in principle US authorities could also try to go after these sites. I have heard of crypto currencies, which is obviously one of the ways to do it. Before then partypoker had already voluntarely left the US market, after the wire act was implemented some years earlier.Īs for the sites still accepting US customers, I assume, they just keep all their assets outside of US, and choose to avoid the US banking system. These were PokerStars, Fult Tilt Poker and Ultimate Bet / Absolute Poker. Basically what happened on Black Friday was, that US authorites cracked down on the operators, that were the largest in the US market, and that had assets inside US, that could be confiscated. ![]()
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