US poker rules are changing

Here is a question for our US ONLINE Poker players that are either struggling on less popular sites or have stopped playing since Black Friday and may or may not start up again if poker becomes legal, protected and populated by more than a few hundred people at your stakes.

Right now there are a few places you can play legally in the US that include Nevada and New Jersey and it looks like Delaware is talking with Nevada to join forces and pool the players. What conditions would you need to actually move to a legal state to play if yours doesn't get inline with others?

I'm pretty much rooted in Washington, which has the most restrictive laws against online poker, I think. We got shut out by Stars and Full Tilt 6 months before Black Friday. But I love it here in The Evergreen State, where my family is and where you can smoke weed legally. There are tons of places to play live within an hour's drive of where I live. Admittedly the Tulalip Casino isn't exactly Vegas, but I can find action there at stakes I'm comfortable playing. Of course, it would be nice if the feds and the state government decided that people should be free to play online poker if they wish to--i.e. that like with the pot initiative here, adults should be free to make their own lifestyle choices even if some moralists disagree with them. But, on balance, there is nowhere I'd rather live than Seattle.

I am fortunate enough to be in the UK and therefore not constrained in anyway by the authorities on poker playing. However if the UK authorities introduced a restriction in the area I lived I would never dream of moving to accomodate playing poker. Poker is a game to me and while I love playing it is not the be all and end all. There are so many other things in my life that come before poker and to be honest I hate the thought of poker being my number one priority in life.

Doesn't even really seem worth it if I were a full time pro with nothing to tie me down. This isn't like moving to Canada and playing on PokerStars with hundreds of thousands of others, the state-to-state rooms have what, a few hundred at peak times?

I have a pretty good day job, so moving for poker doesn't seem "in the cards" ;) ... unless something bad happened with that, I couldn't see moving. Here's the thing, Carbon is actually a pretty good site for unregulated states. I'm actually debating if I want my state to be regulated like Nevada and New Jersey because I haven't heard that those states are booming with traffic yet. If something really good happened like you could play back on Stars and pretty much everywhere, then that might be something to consider.

A friend here in Sacramento talked about getting an apartment in Reno, Nevada. However, the Nevada market doesn't have a lot of action given their small population.

Delaware, New Jersey, and Nevada. What a laugh. Not my ideas of states I'd like to stay at, not even for a vacation. I am a beach bum at heart. So it would have to be on the coast that has sunshine 360 days of the year if I am to move to a different state. Already have a FL condo 6 miles from the beach that is worth more to me than my poker hobby. Poker can come to me, Florida can always merge with the pool of players that does not yet compare to the pool of players at FullTilt and Pokerstars.

if i was older and could do so in florida if i ever move there from kentucky, maybe

If georgia would allow poker in a hub like atlanta they would make so much money off taxes

I'm surprised at the results so far. Obviously it depends if I was making enough money to live off or not, if so then it's no different to moving due to work. If I were making $2k a month playing poker and suddenly I had that income taken away from me, then of course I would look to move somewhere I can continue to earn that. As a low stakes grinder, then it's different, but I'd move if it made economic sense.