re: So is playing poker online $$$ dead in the water ?

Playing online in the states is dead. Only place to play presently is Vegas on WSOP.com. It's true you can play on the sites listed above, but if you aren't cheating you aren't trying, right? I'm not saying it's rigged with bots and trust me I've played enough live hands to see every bad beat in the book. I understand variance. If you had the balls to own a website that facilitated illegal activity would you make a stance on being ethical? Personally, I won't touch those sites I'll leave it at that. We really need to make a push to legalize online poker in at least a few more states, i.e. NJ, LA.