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As many of you know, Pokerstars is now processing withdrawals for US players. In fact, if you login, you will be forced to cash out your balance.

I received my small PokerStars bankroll to my bank account on Friday. I only had $35 online as I took the other couple grand off months ago. However, it did make me think about my early days of online poker.

Of course, the DOJ is saying "Get the fuck out"

I made my first deposit on PokerStars back in 2005. It was the second site I had put money on. The first was PartyPoker.

The main reason I put money on there was to try my hand at some of their tourneys. I found that I liked Sit-N-Gos a lot better than MTTs and that is what I primarily stuck with during the biggest part of my time on the site.

Great Site for Mixed Games

PokerStars was a great site for me to work on mixed games. In fact, my former poker mentor Bill Boston suggested that I play the Stud Hi-Lo games on the site to improve my game.

I grinded out the Sit-N-Go Stud 8 games for a while and before long, I was cashing in live events for the game.

After transitioning to primarily writing about poker instead of playing poker full time, I spent less and less time on the site. About the only time I played was to play in mixed games when they were not available on Full Tilt or if I wanted to play in multi-table Stud 8 Sit-N-Gos.

Who knows whether PokerStars will ever be allowed to return to the US market? If not, it was fun knowing you. Hopefully they will be permitted to negotiate a return once poker is legalized. They were a solid site and it would be a shame to never be able to play on there again.

Of course, I’m looking forward to the day we can play on PartyPoker again. Here fishy, fishy, fishy.