[DeadMoneyDad]

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I'm not sure why you think if legalized even the non danger states will block, but even if they do we will still be where we are at right now. The current US friendly sights will still operate.

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The current US friendly sites may face a choice of pushing the use of geographical IP blocking in the face of implemntated regulations, arguing that there is no "illegal gamble" in those other states. It really depends of if new money transfer options come on line or not. This would be a tough business decision, but the major US friendly sites have taken a lot of risks in the past the continue to serve the US market. I don't know how much more we can expect them to help us help ourselves.

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If you think they will block if legalized then we should be against legalization then?

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Again this is another reason to use this time to build our muscle while the regulations are "in process".

The passage of the UIGEA has lead many casual player out of the market already. The implementation of the regulations will do more to "criminalize" poker at least from the preception side of players. The methods of deposit and withdraw will be that much harder and more expensive.

We need to build and build as fast as we can.

But as far as ease of organization and raising money from "pissed off" citizens, the job will be much easier when and if some of the majors go dark in +20% of the States. So to some degree it cuts both ways.

Imagine working in a city like St. Louis, where it was legal to play in MO but your co-workers in IL couldn't log on to FT or PS. The IL PPA State Reps job would get a whole lot easier.....

But the reverse if also true more states might attempt to join the minority with State action. It is a real possibility, that is the sites do or are forced to serve only "legal" state, other States may see this as an option.

The only thing we can do is get ready for it by planning to be ready.

But as MA has shown, we really are no worse off than we are now. We have to be prepared for individual or worse mutiple State action at any time. There are a number of sites like the State AG's organization's where you can even read some of their strategies and thinking on these matters.


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