PokerNews · Apr 16, 2021
10 Years After Black Friday: Where Poker's Been and Where it's Going
Full Tilt Poker once played a huge role in the U.S. market.Table Of Contents
It's been 10 years since Black Friday but the "anniversary" isn't one celebrated by many. After all, it's a day nearly every poker player would prefer to forget.
Ten years after hundreds of millions of dollars in player funds were frozen and seized by the U.S. government and lives were turned upside-down, the industry has gone through drastic changes. From the modern strategic meta to some of the sites on which poker is delivered to the names at the top of the game — OK, Daniel Negreanu and Erik Seidel are still doing pretty damn great — many facets of 2021 poker would look pretty alien to someone from 2011.