Party like it's 1999

One of the advantages of being sick and having to have done a graveyard shift the day before is ... you wake up at 4 a.m. bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I used this time to burn a casino bonus on Casino Euro. A nice profit for an hour of work. Immediately cashed. If they ban me for being a casino whore, who cares? They might be banning U.S. players in the next few days anyhow.

It's nice to see Poker Stars and Full Tilt toeing the line as far as not banning U.S. players. The rationale -- the federales have had a stick up the butt of online poker for years anyways, so how is this new bill any different? There isn't a sea change of difference for me, since I've had my Party account closed since the spring, in a failed attempt to sneak rakeback. I was just about to reopen my Party account when all this stuff happened.

It'll be interesting to see what a large site like Party does now, as two major systems have decided to buck the bill.