April 15, 2021 marked the 10-year anniversary of Black Friday, the day federal authorities shut down and forever changed online poker in the United States. Gone were the days when U.S. citizens could sit down and log onto sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker at their leisure.
Instead, online poker disappeared before slowly being reintroduced to the landscape, albeit on a state-by-state basis. Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware were the first to legalize back in 2013, and four years later in 2017 Pennsylvania joined the fray, though they didn’t launch operations until 2019.