PokerStars Announcement...Ship It Holla

[SirArthur]

Fantastic news...

also this should quiet down the "sky is falling" crowd for a few days anyway.

[ChunLisBF]

the PARTY may be over, but the sky is ABSOLUTEly FULL of STARS!!!

[CaseS87]

ITS...ITS FULL OF STARS!

[Mr. Orange]

Great news. Hopefully now their ring games will improve after Party is gone.

[Chomp]

I know people say that PS and PP are very different businesses (primarily in respect of PP's listing on the London Stock Exchange and thus their related corporate responsibilites), but seriously I find their decision to pull more bizarre by the day.

There could be no LSE requirement that would make it impossible for PP to continue in the US at a time when operations like PS deem it ok to continue. Something is either illegal or it's not.


Ed: typo

[PLOlover]

The game of skill part sounds like exactly what TruePokerCEO was saying in the legislation forum.

[cyclonus]

gg Party

[wade17]

i too hope that pokerstars becomes the solid #1 site now

[Synergistic Explosions]

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The game of skill part sounds like exactly what TruePokerCEO was saying in the legislation forum.

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Games that were excluded by congress, include horse racing, fantasy sports and the lottery.

The question is, is poker more or less skillfull than these endeavors?

IMO, you can't enforce a bill where you sign off on excluding the very things the bill was meant to enforce. Online horse racing is online gambling. Online Fantasy sports betting is online gambling. Online lottery is online gambling. You can't pass an anti online gambling bill and legalize online gambling games at the same time. It makes no sense at all.

Unless of course your friends are the lobbyists who were paid $700k to get these exceptions in the bill. Then it might make sense. But of course that could never happen. OH, I guess it did in this case.

What a joke our politicians have become. They don't even care how these things might look when found out.

[Pokerlicious]

As I said in the other thread, it is far from clear that poker fits within the definition of "unlawful Internet gambling" as defined by the statute. In fact, if you are playing from a jurisdiction where poker is legal, there is a very strong argument that it is not "unlawful Internet gambling."