Does it Affect Canadian Players? - Page 3

MeriPrankstr · #21 10-03-2006, 05:20 AM

Excerpt from a CTV news clip.

Canada's federal government is monitoring the issue, but plans to focus on prevention and treatment for gambling addicts instead. "Our approach, which is to deal with people who have these issues -- I think it's probably the more appropriate one and probably the one that'll have more success," Health Minister Tony Clement said.

I guess that means they will be implementing safe injection sites for the degenerate online poker junkies who have lost all self control and have spiraled down the dark degrading vortex of online poker. Kidding aside, I'm Canadian and I hope they maintain the F_U stance towards those donks in power to the south of us, who come up with such rubbish in the name of justice, liberty and freedom. God bless America, your gonna need it.

Neonclaws · #22 10-03-2006, 10:27 PM

An issue for Canadian players that came to mind that I haven't heard discussed is, do people think the loss of volume will be concentrated to the evening hours? On weekdays, I would expect the casual-player volume before about 3:00 pm pst would be almost entirely European and after 3:00 pm to be North American. Am I on base with this, or are there allot of non-professional North American players during weekday mornings/afternoons?

yenman · #23 10-03-2006, 11:03 PM

im a canadian mid limit pro and im wonderingabout this too. looks like player volume and game juiciness of party poker is still good. hopefully the euro market will stay strong and asia opens up. unfortunately, there may be less allure to playing an american game thats not even approved in its own country. i think even for foreign players, the idea of going to vegas and winning big US tournaments, the American dream, is part of poker's attraction.

also wonder if this will make criminals out of top pros who are endorsed by sites... they may have to exit domestic tourneys?

possibly look for forms of poker other than hold'em taking popularity and dominance. im a nl holdem specialist right now so thats bad news.

apart from making coin, i love the game and its a great north / american tradition ( as opposed to gun violence, racism, gay hating)and sad to see it treated like dirt when it has gotten respect lately. as for all those who voted REp last election... well time to think about making informed decisions...

DUBYA is a big fish donkey. I would play him HU all day.

RED FACE · #24 10-03-2006, 11:51 PM

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When i first started playing, paradise poker was the main site.
They would have 3000 players online and i remember thinking "wow" 3k players all at the same place.
There is now 100s of thousands of players and americans make up 80%,so that still leaves a sht load of players.

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I played there too, before anyone heard of partypoker but do you remember what the highest limit was? 200nl.

RED FACE · #25 10-03-2006, 11:55 PM

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it probably significantly upgrades the quality of your competition.

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You severely overestimate the skill of European's and players from either gambling oriented cultures or places where poker is still relatively new.

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But many American pro's will find away around the law or move to another country while the fish obviously wont. This will make a big difference imo, for some more than others.

For instance, I would expect the biggest change in skill level to be for evening and weekend play based on North American time zones.

PokeReader · #26 10-04-2006, 02:51 PM

Did anyone hear anything about there being a technical problem with distinguishing the Canadian ISP's from the U.S. ones because their in the same system?

TruePoker CEO · #27 10-04-2006, 02:59 PM

There is nothing in the Act that affects Canadian players.

Enjoy the Grey Cup.

TruePoker CEO

4_2_it · #28 10-04-2006, 03:10 PM

Unless Canada was annexed as the 51st state in the Port Bill (Berge, Mr K please confirm) Canadians will not be subject to this law.

PokeReader · #29 10-04-2006, 06:54 PM

Be aware there will be complexity with both separating out the U.S. and Canadian ISP's and the possibility of financial entities now being able to handle prevent our money going to poker sites, but allowing yours. These will be complex issues for the banking folks. What is to stop U.S. players from getting a Canadian banking account and a isp filter? It will probably cause identity theft. Article mentions possibility sites will just bar North America as a whole.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Content...4&t=TS_Home

scott2130 · #30 10-06-2006, 07:59 PM

Saying there will be less fish is an understatement. Speaking about Party, their 6/30/06 financial statements show that over 77% of their income comes from US Players. They categorize their income as USA, Canada, Europe, Rest of the World. This will turn Party into what they did to Empire Poker. Good luck making a living or extra money.