I was just thinking that it was high time to ramp up the posting of interesting poker related stuff on this so called blog when all of a sudden the FBI goes and takes the top poker rooms  out of the US market.

Just like that, with guns blazing and warrants flying they… uh… closed some web sites.  Yes, they took down the main sites belonging to Stars, Tilt, UB and AP.

For a little while there no one knew what was really going on. As it all went down on a Friday there was little time to get things sorted out. Of course, it was only the web sites that were taken down, not the poker software servers, so if you didn’t read any news you could be playing on any of those sites while all that went down and be non the wiser.

Until the poker rooms kicked all the Americans out that is.

And that is what they did do, well Stars and Tilt at first anyway.

So now we have the pitiful sight of thousands of US poker players wandering the streets with nothing to do and nowhere to go.

Well, no, not really. The resurgence in home games is only just beginning, and surely some real life casinos are going to see a huge increase in action at their hold’em tables.

It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out in the coming weeks and months.