Re: Cheating in Online Poker
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The game's reputation is hurt short term only to rebound long term from transparency and rule changes. Something to think about.
~J
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This is just really, really wrong. Baseball isn't poker. For such bad publicity to hit poker at this time post-legislation would be a death sentence. If you really think in this day and age of UIEGA (sp) and the PPA trying to get poker to be loved again by congress that articles like this are good for poker, then I don't know what to say.
When we're talking about a problem that affects less than 1% of online poker players being brought to light and potentially hurting the entire industry, this is just wrong. Because poker isn't baseball, poker is gambling. We've had the Pete Rose era, we're having the Tim Donaghy era.
Do you really think something like what Paul is going to write is going to let poker grow again? wtf? no! it's already viewed negatively by so many people, why give them opportunities to further bury online poker into obscurity?
I'm all about cleaning up whoever does this cheating in online poker. That doesn't include supporting Paul writing an article that will only serve to scare those this doesn't affect into not depositing, and further bringing a negative light to online poker via those who aren't involved in the industry, including congress as well as my family and non-poker friends.
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oh [censored] this is exactly what needed to be said
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