Out of the three poker sites to suffer on Black Friday PokerStars has managed to bounce back quite well. This was partly due to their cooperation with the US Department back in April when they volunteered to stop offering play to American players. They lost a lot of advertising and missed a few media drenched tournaments but seemed to have fared quite well. Only now the government is noticing that American players are still active on the PokerStars site. Those professional or dedicated players with long records on PokerStars actually relocated out of the U.S. to continue playing on the site. And some players said they did. Seems a number of poker fans are playing from their home computers in the good Ole' U S of A. So how is this possible? Well whoever said poker players were smart. The avid fans have been using re-routers to disguise the ISP signature and actual location. Those players discovered doing this have had their accounts frozen but there may be many more who have yet to be detected. Its important to note that PokerStars is aware of this method of playing and have made their upset very clear on their website's terms of service. I get that this re-routing to play on poker sites illegally is not cool. But would it be happening if the US would legalize online gaming? Are we not making more work for the department of justice? Is the fact that people are doing this to continue playing on a particular site show that consumer need and demand are not being met on the local scene? Forcing players to hide their location or move overseas to play poker is plain old silly. Its like sending jobs to Mexico then wondering why unemployment goes up. The continued delay in federal gaming legislation is creating more problems. And I don't understand why those in authority seem puzzled by the ever growing ripples of the Black Friday Fiasco.