Effect of Online Poker Ban

[UbinTook]

Regardless of how the issue works out in the end, i believe it will take a significant amount of time before U.S players will be able to play online again.
Last night there were already quite a number of new faces in the poker room, many of them made comments referencing their inability to play online.

It will certainly be interesting to see how this affects the games in the in the CAZ poker room.
Hopefully it will be for the good, we shall see.

[Khrysys]

It should at least bring a variety of new faces and new money to the room.  The learning curve adapting to live should at least be entertaining to watch.

[that_pope]

It will clearly be for the good of the casino in the short run.

But if the new players who play the most were winning players online who now need live to make their living, long term it will likely hurt the games since there are now more winning players introduced into the population, killing the bad players quicker and making the games tougher that the slight winners who don't like losing money will now be losing players and will simply drop down stakes or stop playing.  Hopefully I am wrong, but I think long term it is bad for the games.

[UbinTook]

There were 175 entries in the Tuesday night MTT, that's the biggest number we've seen for a while for that tournament and this at the start of the "slowdown" for the summer.
well see how things adjust over the coming weeks and after the WSOP is over.

The live games seem to have quite a number of new faces and the room seems busier, so far.  Your short term/long term observation is logical, but i wonder if the winning players will have the patience to tolerate one game at a time. 
A winning player online, may not be successful live, they may just not be able to adjust or have the patience to play live.  ( adjusting from multi-tabling 5-40 games to playing one hand at a time has to be difficult).

[UbinTook]

144 entries, in the Wednesday night MTT  though less the Tuesday, which is the norm, it is still more than usual for Wednesday.

Going to try to find out what the average has been for each night over the last year and see how the numbers compare.

There were more live games during sand after the tournaments both nights, and the games seemed to hold stronger for a longer period of time.

Now that the FBI has agreed to allow the release of player funds, there may be more players trying to parlay that money in live action.( once they get it)

[that_pope]

I still see it a few weeks out until the online money starts to get into players bank accounts. 

[UbinTook]

by the looks of things it may be more than a few weeks.  Seems there may be some delays in getting the money back.  red tape i suppose and nothing but player speculation and ambiguous information from the poker sites.

[UbinTook]

181 in the Tuesday night MTT, extremely high turnout , highest that i can remember in a long while.

[AceHigh Pino]

Is anyone playing online poker here in the USA still? 

I've only been playing at Carbon Poker and have waited a couple weeks on a check cashout from 2 weeks ago.  Decent action but still prefer live games - especially at CAZ!