Open any travel brochure that might come your way and you'll very likely find an advertisement for areas such as Costa Rica, Aruba, Antigua and the Virgin Islands.  These are all popular vacation resort destinations that Americans love to enjoy due to their reduced cost and ease of travel.  Visiting these areas is ridiculously cheap and can be achieved with very little difficulty on the part of the tourist.  But in the next few years, there might be a renewed focus on areas such as Costa Rica for its friendly Internet gaming laws.  With the crackdown of the United States government on the online poker room and casino industry, many online poker and online casino players who make their living on the Internet have considered moving out of the United States and into a friendlier nation that will better facilitate their online gaming and gambling needs.  Playing poker online is a professional sport for many players and the restrictive United States laws discourage many career minded professional Texas Hold'em online poker players from playing at their best or in the most lucrative conditions.
Strict laws passed by the United States government have run out many of the players that originally inhabited these online poker rooms and casinos and has left very little competition for the remaining players overall. New laws make it impossible to find banks that will accept transactions from online poker rooms and casinos, making it impossible to fund the players bankroll with a simple credit card transaction. Where once there was plenty of new action and competition, now there is barely any players at all other than the hard-core devoted players who cannot be discouraged regardless.  As more and more players consider moving out of the United States and into areas such as Aruba, Antigua and Costa Rica due to their extremely online poker room and casino friendly regulations and policies, the United States government is increasingly becoming more and more hostile to online poker rooms overall, increasing taxes on poker players who frequent sites such as Fulltiltpoker.com and even demanding withholdings of winnings over a certain amount, in order to ensure that the player pays the proportionate amount of taxes that are legally levied against winnings in games of skill.

Moving to a foreign country to find a more suitable climate for playing in online poker rooms and casinos might sound strange at first until you realize how many players participate in the game of poker on a professional basis.  These professional players have been handicapped by recent changes in United States gaming laws and are desperate for a way to circumvent what they consider to be unreasonably strict regulations.