[TreyWilly]

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I think it will be interesting to say the least. Gaming has never been competitive in the US. For God's sake its never been about value to the consumer. We're talking about Casinos who think giving 1% cashback on sub90% payout slots is going to bankrupt them.

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I don't think this is valid for poker rooms. But even if it is, you're forgetting that the competition expressly legal poker would create has never been seen before. It's one thing to rip someone off in a riverboat in Mississippi, where there are no other options, or in a resort in Vegas, where everyone is on vacation.

It's an altogether different thing to rip somebody off when you can find a substantially better deal without having to lift an ass cheek.


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FT and PS won't go away. I think you're also discounting their serious advantages in having great software they have long experience with, and in Stars case, great CS. And an existing base of customers.

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What are we talking about here? We're talking about practice, man. We're talking about customer service and software. We're not talking about rocket science.

If Yahoo! isn't smart enough to have a fully operational poker site up and running that's backed by a trained staff of customer service agents within a week of the green light, then peeing your pants is cool.

This isn't the atomic bomb.

Also, what's to keep a guy like Mark Cuban from simply paying cash for a site like UB and have them servicing U.S. customers within a matter of hours?

When it comes down to it, we're all just playing a computer game. Software and customer service? Please.