This goes double for online poker. The US is the only country that places restrictions on it, and the restrictions basically kill it in this country. Swing and a miss. The US restrictions have completely killed it (banhammered) and it is pretty regulated through most of Europe. But yeah, it's really stupid. Legalize, set standard practices, regulate it and tax it. No. It has not been completely killed. There are still several reputable sites that accept US players. Ask me if I'll tell you what they are. The US first started putting sanctions on online payment processors, which drove away the big fish who realized that they could still keep a ton of traffic if they disallowed players from the US. That about cut US options in half, and then Absolute and Full Tilt starting doing shady things and drawing attention to themselves and they were banhammered. There is still one very big room that accepts US players, but they're getting kind of scary, too. How the [expletive] is it regulated in Europe? They have access to all the payment processors, and no sites that I know of say "no" to Europeans and "yes" to Canadians. Or Chinese. Or whatever. I suspect you're talking about of your ass here.