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I have seen this coming for a while now. People on the forums are in some form of denial: "Oh, this has happened before" or "The sky isnt falling", etc, etc. I'm sorry, but it has been falling. Not all at once, but slowly for 2.5 years since the UIEGA Frankly I am disgusted by the Poker sites failure to do more to fight for U.S. players. They have made BILLIONS of dollars with Online Poker and it started with American players with an American game. Now they feel like they don't need us anymore because Poker is popular in the rest of the world. They'll take a hit initially(but still be incredibly profitable), but with Asia and South America catching poker fever these days they will recover. People who defend the underwhelming response of Poker sites say we need to do more like support the Pokerplayers Alliance. Well grandma doesnt go to Washington DC or state capitols to lobby politicians to keep her beloved slot machines running. Why should we support an organization that has overseen the fall of Neteller, Epassporte, and now apparently eChecks(not that the sites have given them the $$ they need). Of course sites like Pokerstars & FullTilt could use a small fraction of their profits to hire an army of lawyers to lobby in D.C. for the cause of Online Poker in the U.S. like big companies(foreign and domestic) do. But its much easier to just move on to developing Online Poker in the above-mentioned continents.