Is anyone concerned about tomorrow (7/10/07)?

[prodonkey]

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Nope, not in the least..Congress can enact and the President can sign (and therefore enact into law) any bill they like, and specify a period for regulations pursuant to such an Act as they might like.

But the unelected, unaccountable government bureaucrats who draft those regulations are part of a permanent government, which tends to remain in power regardless of which political party is in power at any given time. Believe me, the last day of that 270 day period about which so many were concerned is just one more "X" through the calendar, as the bureaucrats count the number of days they have until they retire. There have been laws passed ten, twenty, or more years ago, which still don't have regulations passed to clarify how those laws are to be enforced.

Truthfully, I think the DOJ prefers not having regulations in place--a sane set of regulations (if those discharged with drafting such regs had actually bothered to study the issues they were about to regulate) could possibly have hamstrung the DOJ from making their big splash, with the Neteller and sports bookmakers arrests. Not likely, but possible.

Truthfully, I'll be surprised if we see any regulations appear at any point in the near future. We'll see them when the online sites affiliate with the B&M casinos, and get the okey-dokey from the government to do so..Naturally, this will mean paying two rakes, one to the online site, and the other to the goverment, thus making it much more difficult to make a living at online poker.

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exactly.. which is another reason why they don't want to clarify the wire act, and have not gone after "poker" under it. If it ends up in court it imo, won't hold up.

[4_2_it]

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Don't know anything about next Thursday, but I do know that betting $777 on the Number 7 at 7:07 PM on 7/7/07 seemed like a good idea at the time.

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Well, no wonder. 7:07 pm is 19:07 army time. You were 12 hours late. Dumb*** [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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D'oh!

[Lostit]

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I'm concerned about next Thursday.

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That's the Neteller deadline, correct?

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From what I understand, Rapture occurs about 2:51 p.m. that day.

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Its good to see someone from Focus on Families posting on the board

[Legislurker]

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I'm concerned about next Thursday.

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That's the Neteller deadline, correct?

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From what I understand, Rapture occurs about 2:51 p.m. that day.

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Its good to see someone from Focus on Families posting on the board

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You know its the Rapture because everyone from FoF will be left on Earth and wondering why.

[Jestocost]

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Truthfully, I'll be surprised if we see any regulations appear at any point in the near future. We'll see them when the online sites affiliate with the B&M casinos, and get the okey-dokey from the government to do so..Naturally, this will mean paying two rakes, one to the online site, and the other to the goverment, thus making it much more difficult to make a living at online poker.

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The draft regulations were completed by Treasury and submitted to OMB for required review on June 18. I would expect that we will see the proposed rules published for comment today per the statutory requirement in UIGEA. There will be a comment period, additional time for final rules to be developed incorporating (or not) any input received during the comment period and the final rules will be issued. In all likelihood there will be an additional period set during which covered entities will have time to get into compliance with the regulations.

[TheMetetron]

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Tomorrow, it will be business as usual at TruePoker.

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Even I think you are getting to be a huge spamtard. Someone not bust into the ironic nature of this sentence.

[TruePoker CEO]

The OP asked about concern about July 10. I responded that business would continue as usual at Truepoker, indicating a lack of concern. I did not think that was spam, unless you think any reference by a site to a site is somehow spam.

I appreciate your restraint about the potential irony, given our relative size among the shrinking number of US facing rooms, and am somewhat surprised there was no more direct comments. However, we are here and take US players' play and have been in busness for over 6 years.

[oldbookguy]

According to a Steve laughton (e-mail listed on the link provided, I received the following short answer:
Subject: RE: UIGEA Regulations
To: oldbookguy@ XXXXXXX
We are hoping for sometime soon this month.

Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXXX XXXXXXX [mailtoldbookguy@XXXXXX]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:01 PM
To: Laughton, Steven
Subject: UIGEA Regulations


Mr. Laughton,
I am writing concerning
RIN: 1505-AB78 Agenda Cycle: 200704
Title: ¤Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling

and am wondering when these rules / regulations will be posted for public view / comment.

Thanks in advance,

XXXXXXX
XXXXXX

So, it seems today (the due day) is out and nothing is posted on the www.regulations.gov site.

obg

[CompatiblePoker]

Damit, you beat me to it. Here is his response to me. He does say "hopefully" this month........doesn't he mean hopefully not [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

"Steven.Laughton@do.treas.gov" to me
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"The regulations will not be published today but will hopefully be published sometime this month.

Steve"

[CompatiblePoker]

In his email to you he says they will be published "soon" this month and in mine he says they will "hopefully" be published this month. LOL