A lot has been written over the last two weeks about anything and everything having to do with online poker's Black Friday. Most of the talk, other than screaming to the heavens about the U.S. Government, has been about what players in the United States are going to do. Basically, is online poker dead in the United States? My answer, put simply, is yes, at least for a while. Don't ask me to define "a while," but I'd be shocked if online poker were legalized and regulated in the U.S. within the next couple of years. We all know that the world's largest sites – PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker – booted their American players. But despite the loss of the home of the majority of poker players, many feel that since there are still some rooms and networks that serve U.S. customers, we can all just move over to their tables and continue on like the Black Friday indictments were just a pothole. I don't buy it. True, the three largest U.S.-facing networks that remain have made strides since Black Friday, picking up some of the exiles from the big boys, but the big gains are really just in percentages, not player counts. ...