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I just saw your post Uglyowl so I guess I didn't need to make mine - yours seems to confirm my expectation.

I'm unfortunately living in this stupid state and can't move atm so will be contacting church groups, anti-gambling Repubs and Dems plus whatever other of our "poker enemies" I can think of to see how to kill this proposal.

Hopefully the ppa will have some suggestions because besides that I don't have the slightest idea how to take steam out of this idiot's proposal.

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The only way to take steam out of the proposal is to convince the legislators that internet gambling poses no threat to the revenue stream from B&M casinos.

Good luck on that one.

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Another thing that people in State Government don't realize is that just because you outlaw all forms of internet gambling (including poker) doesn't mean that you strengthen your revenue stream from the B&M casinos by eliminating the competition. I was born in North Carolina, was raised in Florida, and now currently reside back in North Carolina, both of which has B&M casinos. I've never had any desire to go play live poker at any casino in either state, nor have I had the desire to place bets and wagers on other games within those same casinos.

Another thing that alot of these B&M casinos forget is, if it wasn't for online poker, they would have never cashed in as much as they have off of the poker boom they way they have. Harrah's, who owns and runs The Rio in LV, has benefitted royally over the last couple of years with the WSOP off of satellites that have been run off of the websites for the Main Event. Do they really think poker was so popular prior to 2002 to where they would have gotten as many participants as 2004-2007 and the consumer traffic those years brought into the casino and Las Vegas? You got successful players online who have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars winning sats to the Main Event, then taking parts of their online bankrolls and spending money to play in other events (that they normally wouldn't have). Even when you look at the WPT events and others throughout the US and Europe. They have all have benefitted from the online poker revolution of the early and mid '00s.

Outlawing and making online poker illegal might curb competition but it also doesn't guarantee you new customers either.