Well folks, my son ordered a check from pokerstars the day before the big news:

"the feds were going to freeze the accounts of major online poker players".

It was between 3 and 4 weeks ago. He received an email from pokerstars saying the money was coming, but they suggested he deposit it in the bank rather than going to a check casher's place. We could not figure out why. Some of the funds that were frozen were from banks, so that made no sense. Anyway, we watched and waited and hoped his check would come. And yesterday it did. It came from a bank in ---------CANADA!!!!!!!____

So, that explains a few things. Not only did the US screw themselves again by not just taxing the money to start with, US banks just lost millions of dollars because our poker sites withdrew their money and their good intentions and took them somewhere friendlier. Just like dodging the draft, isn't it?

Good for them!! Maybe someone who's hurting ( like the us federal economy) will wake up and smell the jaVA