Where Can You Play Online Poker In The US?

Ever since Black Friday, US citizens have had a hard time to find where to play poker. On April 15, 2011 the US Government shut down the 3 biggest pokerrooms, Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker and Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker. This sent a shockwave threw the poker community and many players have not received their money from the pokerrooms, most noticeably Full Tilt Poker. The Government seized Millions of dollars and the .com domains. Pokerstars paid the fine and removed their client from the US market, Full Tilt on the other hand did not have enough money to pay back all he players and Full Tilt is currently in negotiations to selling to Pokerstars for an undisclosed fund rumored at $750 million ($330 million will go toward the repayment of players, while the rest will settle the outstanding charges against PokerStars).

Now, you may be wondering where can you play poker in the US? And there's 3 main options;

 -Play live Poker
 -Move to Canada, Mexico, europe, etc 
-Play at one of the pokerrooms that still allow US players to play.

There are 3 main pokerrooms that still allow US players and they are:

1) Bovada - This is a new pokerroom that just launched in Dec 2011 but is on the Bodog network so technically it is not new. It is for US players only but you will play against players all across the world because Bovada is just one company on a large network. Bovada has about half the amount of traffic of Carbon Poker(Merge Gaming Network)

2) Cake Poker - Is on the CakePoker Network and was established in 2004. Their sofware has 3D avatars which gives it a unique playing experience. There is less selection but you shouldn't have a problem finding medimum and low stakes games here. There are many promotions and freerolls.

3) Carbon Poker - This is the largest pokerroom that still accepts US players. Carbon Poker is on the Merge Gaming Network. Good game selection and the competition is not too tough. The software is stable and cashouts seem to be the fastest here. There are also Monthly MTT and SNG leaderboards to earn extra cash on top of vip system and bonuses.