Now What?. Kris Anderson

      B) Things will improve.

      YOU QUIT PLAYING ONLINE: Your current repertoire of skills will have little value if and when you resume playing after the dust settles; your game will suffer tremendously from lack of practice. You will have to start from the bottom while those who continued forward will have long since passed over you.

      YOU CONTINUE PLAYING: You will be far better than your competition who will either just begin playing due to the new availability of legal sites or those with rusty, diminished skill who have come out of hibernation.

      C) The situation will worsen.

      YOU QUIT PLAYING ONLINE: You are safe. You missed out on a few months of practice but your bankroll remained intact.

      YOU CONTINUE PLAYING: You have yet another online account frozen and your funds are confiscated. You get salty again and start hunting down contacts for some local home games. However, when you return to the live games, you will be that much stronger.

       Conclusion: call the bluff!

      Given the implied odds of this particular pot of life, it would appear that continuing to play online as long as possible would be the best option in order to prepare ourselves for the uncertainty of the future. But clearly there are risks involved. So let us turn now to the next chapter and figure out the safest way to navigate through this potentially treacherous ground.