[DeadMoneyDad]

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Affiliates do NOT want legal home poker or local poker clubs. Right there is a big conflict of interest.

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This argument seems to fall flat on it's face in a simple look at the current state of the "poker world". The increase in poker's popularity has "lifted all boats". No where in all of my discussions with John, or anyone in any way connected to poker has anyone with 1/2 a brain not understood that legal poker helps all aspects of the poker world. I even spoke to a B&M in Indiana about getting information to their KY players. While the poker room employee thought the GM might not want the increased competition from new casinos in KY, the GM understood his parent organization would indeed likely grow with such an expansion. He even said he'd have to talk to the employee as more casinos meant more chances for that employee to move up in their organization.

While it seems natural for everyone to assume that everyone else is out to use whatever position or power one or the other might have to screw everyone over, and your personal life experience might re-inforce that feeling, not everyone operates from this perspective.


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