...I just tried my Full Tilt account - I'm based in the UK.

There was a software update to run - nothing unusual in that, although usually they take one or two seconds, this time took a couple of minutes.

Still plenty of players, but much less now that you guys are not allowed to play - currently 24,000 players on FT. I guess it just means one table and cash games will take a little mlomger to fill up and larger tournaments will have less players.

I did play around with my location once - if I put "USA" I couldn't load from my credit card, but if I put back to "UK" then I could, easy as that! I guess the software tehrefore needs to be more sophisticated if it wants to actually stop players from certain countries regardless of where they say they are from !

As others have said, could be a good thing for live poker - I like live poker, but haven't played as much since our daughter was born (those late nights just don't come as easy any more *lol* )

Jason