In the wake of the U.S. Department of Justice indictments of the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, all three sites have cut off U.S. players. Now what? PocketFives.com sat down with several brand name online poker pros to ask what their next moves will be. Will they be heading to the nearest border? Will they be hitting up the live circuit? Will they be leaving the online poker industry forever? Or will they be playing on sites like Carbon Poker?

Recent World Poker Tour (WPT) Festa al Lago winner Randal RandALLin Flowers (pictured) told PocketFives.com that live cash games and tournaments are his fallback. He admitted that picking up shop and moving to a foreign country wasn’t in the cards: “I don’t want to move just yet. I don’t know how profitable online poker will be compared to just playing live poker. I can’t move because I’m sure the moving costs, hassle, and pain in the ass aren’t worth it.”

Flowers’ WPT win last October was worth $831,000 and marked the culmination of years of hard work and poker education. It officially was his second WPT title, as he also took down the Spanish Championship in 2009 for nearly $400,000.

Flowers’ reaction to the Department of Justice’s seizures and indictments was one of surprise: “I was just shocked. What I’ve done for five years has been taken from me and I didn’t really have a backup, so it’s pretty brutal. My girlfriend was in town from L.A., so I was distracted, but she left today and how bored I’ve been has hit me. I’m about to go to the gym, which I haven’t done in two months.”

Also talking with PocketFives.com this week about his plans was Michael benvo123Benvenuti (pictured), who is currently camped out in Las Vegas. Benvenuti was taking a wait and see approach in light of the cutoff of PokerStars, Full Tilt, UB.com, and Absolute Poker from taking U.S. action.

“I’m not really sure what I’m going to do,” Benvenuti told us. “I’m probably just going to play live through the WSOP and then see how things are going. I may try to move out of the country with a few friends after the summer, but I’m definitely just going to play as much as possible live for now. I’ve been playing cash games on and off for a while now, but I’ll definitely be trying to grind those more when I’m not in tournaments.”

Like pros that included UB.com’s Adam RoothlusLevy, Benvenuti was attending the Coachella Music Festival in California when the news broke last week. Given his surroundings, he tried to make the best of the situation: “I was definitely shocked. I was at the Coachella Music Festival with Sam siolaIola and Joseph subiime Cheong. We were all shocked, but were trying to just have a good time.”

Tyson POTTER Marks (pictured), whose victory in the 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event was worth over $2.2 million, told PocketFives.com that he’d be riding out the indictment fallout at the WSOP: “For now, I’m somewhat enjoying a break from online poker and it’s given me some extra time to play disc golf and plan my summer. I plan on being in Vegas for the WSOP and traveling a bit for some disc tournaments.”

After the WSOP, Marks contended that he’d travel the live scene more or seek a short-term residence outside of the United States: “Most people are saying that it will take a year for the regulation and reinstatement of internet poker in the U.S. I’m thinking it will be much shorter. Even if PokerStars and Full Tilt don’t return, I think that the government wants that tax revenue badly enough that they will push something through.”

Marks currently makes his home in Montana and noted that he really doesn’t want to leave the United States: “I’m happy living in Montana, but I will be considering moving for sure if things have progressed much by the fall.” Montana’s cash games feature a $300 cap on each pot.

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