Online poker players 'exiled in paradise'

[The Buzz]

Interesting read from Atlas Obscura about a company called Poker Refugees that helps online poker players living in countries that ban the game to relocate. The company was founded by Kristin Wilson shortly after Black Friday and involved helping mostly U.S. players, but business has increased over the years from other locations all over the world.

She kept wondering: What are all those thousands of professional pokers players going to do? They aren’t going to stop playing poker. It is their main source of income—what they are good at. They are going to have to move. Having lived in Costa Rica for six years, she knew from experience that it takes time to learn the rules and complexities of living abroad, and she figured that these players had no time to waste . . . She could help them move—and fast. Some of her clients made up the core of a group that Business Insider called the “Poker Frat of Playa del Carmen” in 2014, when the routine was “Play poker, go diving, go clubbing, go drinking. Repeat.” There were other groups of expat poker players in Rosarito, Mexico, in Canada, in San Jose, Costa Rica, and on the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Read the entire article here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...poker-refugees

[ocreditor]

Amazing, poor players can't even live in their own country and do what they love

[celena]

The countries want to overeat on players.
First there are the prohibitions, example in France, he plays on Pokerstars between French, they can not even play
with European poker players, then too many taxes thereafter.
In France most of the big players are gone.
In Malta there are all the nationalities of poker players.

[ocreditor]

Malta & Gib the best place for players

[Roulette Zeitung]

In France most of the big players are gone.
In Malta there are all the nationalities of poker players.

Malta & Gib the best place for players

I believe, Josy's secret backroom is the best place for players.

Finest pralines from Belgium, hand rolled cigars, delicious red wine and five community cards.

Leopold