Yes, my apologies. I do not mean that liquidity will dry up universaly. European and Asian growth is fantastic and only getting better. However, if a site is 90% US and the market begins to dry up why would Europeans and Asians choose to play there? Those players are going to go to the sites where liquidity is increasing, marketing campaigns are kicking in, and a real effort is being put into developing those markets. Right now, the only US room doing any of the above is Stars though they are still so US focused that they are probably 12 – 18 months behind sites like Party, Everest, etc that are focusing on non-US markets.

Bill

While I am in general agreement with you about how the next few years will play out for US online poker players (more and more difficulty funding and withdrawing from accounts), you are destined to be wrong about one thing:

Liquidity will not dry up. Yes, many US fish will no longer bother jumping the hurdles to play online, but the slack will be more than picked up by increasing numbers of European and Asian players. Witness the strong growth of traffic at rooms that banned US players last October in the last few months (most notably Party and Everest).

We are still in the early stages of the poker boom in Europe. The EPT has been growing rapidly, fueled by large numbers of European online qualifiers. And it’s not only the Scandinavians that are jumping on the poker bandwagon – I’m noticing more and more players from many former Communist block countries.

And when the European boom levels off, it will be about time for Asians to enter full force.

As a Canadian, I hope that eventually the restrictions of US players will be lifted. But until then, I will have no shortage of inexperienced players at my table.