DN loses respect for Raymer

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Think carefully about this. The U.S. just imprisoned the CEO of BetOnSports, a U.K. Citizen, for operating an enterprise that was legal in the countries it was hosted in and run from. Do you really think the management, and board of directors of the WPT (Lyle Berman for example) want to leave the U.S. forever to avoid imprisonment? It will only take one U.S. player gaining access to their web site for the U.S. justice department to apply for arrest warrants.



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I'll preface this by saying I haven't looked at the law that the DOJ is relying on, but I highly doubt that what you say is true. Pretty much all serious criminal offenses have intent/knowledge components (one exception is statutory rape in my state, which has an intent requirement that's more or less irrelvant to that actual offense, and arguably DWI's where the intent requirement is only peripherally related to the crime). I would expect that if a site bans US players and has enforcement mechanisms in place to prevent US players from playing, that one US player is able to circumvent that would not subject the US executives to criminal penalties.

Again I haven't looked at the actual law though.

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