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In his most recent blog post, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu made a very fitting analogy between the current state of online poker in the United States and the way the U.S.S.R. was portrayed during the Cold War, saying: “For this of you who can, I really suggest moving out of the Unites States of America to a country that will allow you the freedom to play poker in your underwear… During the cold war, the Big, Bad, Communist U.S.S.R.” was seen as an oppressive regime, while the U.S.A. represented freedom. Who woulda thunk, that to enjoy the freedom of playing poker online you’d have to move away from Los Angeles and head to Moscow. That’s just bizarre,”

Negreanu, who finds himself back in his native Canada, living in Toronto, in order to take part in the WCOOP that will be running on PokerStars in early September, the transition back to the world of online poker has been pretty seamless, primarily because the native-born Canadian already possessed a Canadian Passport and simply needed to setup a bank account in order to fund his online account. Negreanu explained his current plans on his blog by saying: “As for my online poker plan, I’m probably just going to jump into whatever games seem the most lively, which at this point looks to be pot limit Omaha… I’m going to stick to the $25/$50 game for now until I get used to playing online again. I’m hoping to play a bit of everything really, just fun to have that option again,”

Negreanu joins a long list of players that have relocated around the globe, including Phil Galfond and Olivier Busquet (both of whom also went to Canada); William Reynolds who found some very nice digs in Costa Rica; and Justin Bonomo who settled on Malta as his new home.

You can read the entire blog post at Negreanu’s Full Contact Poker site