Daniel Negreanu has reacted to last Friday's events in his newest blog. The Canadian Team PokerStars pro is still playing poker, but says that has now moved on to the live games.

Daniel Negreanu was one of the only pros not to react immediately to "Black Friday"'s shutdown of Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Absolute Poker and UB Poker.

Now - some five days later - he has finally shared some thoughts with readers of his CardPlayer Blog, and while he does express his disappointment, he is also careful not to condemn the U.S. authorities like many of his fellow pros have done it over the weekend.

"OK, so by now unless you've been living under the rock you know what happened on "Black Friday." While sites are running business as normal internationally, US customers have been blocked from playing online. It all happened suddenly, and it took the poker world by storm. Just when I started getting the hang of online poker, it's been blocked in the US," Negreanu writes.

"I haven't commented on Black Friday, not because I haven't been following the updates via twitter, but because any two cents I would add at this point would be pure speculation and I don't think that offers much to those that have been affected by this. That, plus I've been advised to not discuss the matter at this point which makes perfect sense to me," he adds.

Instead, Negreanu is now focusing on continuing to play poker, however, moving on to the live games in Las Vegas. Here, he has been trying to get into the action with some of the Vegas scene's biggest names, but so far without any major success.

"I tried to get a game together with Sammy Farha, Sam Stein, and BenB the other night, but it played super small. $50-$100 NLH/PLO. I genuinely thought there would be more action this week, but maybe I'm just being impatient. I just really want to play poker," Negreanu writes.

"I'm going to continue to go down there and play 5-6 nights a week, 8pm-2am, but if nothing really materializes in terms of higher limit poker, I'll have to find some other games somewhere. I'm sure some games will pop up somewhere, I'm just anxious to play."

Finally, the Team PokerStars pro does admit to be taken by the recent developments in the U.S. as he sends out a message to the many players the lockout has affected so far.

"My heart goes out to all the families that this will effect, both from the media side, as well as the professional poker playing grinders who are supporting a family. This can't be easy to deal with," Negreanu writes.

"As bad as things are now, I am hopeful for the future. For those of you struggling to figure out "What now?" it's time to dig deep and "be like water." Adjust, survive, and thrive. The game of poker is loved by so many people across the world and that's never going to change," he concludes.

Read the full blog post here.

Source: Poker.org