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I'm uber-discouraged right now. Can somebody give me a reason not to quit playing poker?

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Playing pokah is no more illegal now AIUI thanks to Bob Fists efforts than it was a few days ago.

Once el Pres signs the new bill then funding becomes illegal but the text of the bill is worded so that they are really only going after US based banks and financial institutions that transfer money to offshore gaming companies. NOT the players that play the games.

I still wanna know wtf Horse racing (that well known game of skill) is specially allowed and not poker [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img][img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

I think that in a few weeks once the dust settles some enterprising internet entrepreneur with a high risk tolerance will come up with a handy new way to allow US based players to easily and legally circumvent the new legislation. Once that's happened things will get back to pretty much how they are now.

Lots of posters in the legislation forum are going nuts saying that it's the end of the poker world as we know it - I think that industries that make billions from US clientele that aren't even based in the US aren't going to sit back and watch idly and more than likely have quietly assembled contingency plans to get around the new red tape.

Make no mistake the new bill sucks - and noone who plays poker is going to vote for Mr Fist when he does the racing for pres thing in 2008, but it's only more red tape than can easily be worked around in time.

It might dent the pool of fish short term, but you strike me as the kind of player that can beat most of the opposition and not just the very worst of it so you ought to do fine if times get tougher.

when cc's were blocked in the US people moaned that "the fish will never go to all the trouble of setting up a Neteller a/c" - "the bubble has burst" "we are going to have to quit playing and get real jobs" - and look at the playerbase now.

Do not underestimate the power of greed, some offshore greedy SOB will soon fix things so that the US fish we all know and stack can still fund their poker accounts without too much hassle.

As for wimmen - no help here sorry, tho I find that rejection by the fairer sex goes very well with a night at ye locale ale house.