Today is the day American poker players have dreaded for weeks now. President Bush has made it official by signing into law the "Illegal Internet Gambling Act" Taking swift action, Party Poker, the largest online poker room, has pulled the plug on American players. As expected other large poker rooms have followed suite. Pacific Poker, Titan Poker and some others have also bailed out on Americans. For those of us that have followed this act from Congress to Senate and all the way to the President's desk were not surprised about the actions of these poker rooms. This has been in the making for a few weeks.

So what now?

What do American Poker players do now that Party Poker wont let us play real money games? The bottom line of this act does not make poker illegal and it does not make playing poker a crime.
It will make it harder for us to transact with these online poker rooms, but
will not make you a criminal. So, all we need to do is find another poker room.

Other major players in the Poker industry such as:
Full Tilt Poker, Poker.com and Doyles Room Poker  to name a few have stated they will continue to allow U.S. players and some are even going as far as to offer special bonuses for American players.

The best thing we as Americans can do is to keep playing poker online. Online merchant transacting companies including Neteller are still allowing transfers to the poker rooms that allow U.S. players. So really this act has done very little to limit online gaming as most transactions with online gambling sites were through Neteller before this law took affect.