Brainstorming: Ways Around the Internet Ban

[321Mike]

In my opinion this discussion is pointless. There is a long way to go before we see how this is going to be implemented and enforced.

I'm 100% sure we will be able to work around it at that point. The real question will be whether the new players that bring in the new money that drives the poker economy will be willing and able to do it. I suspect the answer is no, but we'll just have to wait and see.

[Megenoita]

The real answer is that we all need to become professional sports bettors on horse racing.

[finegrinder]

Something similar to this:

The Scattering

[revots33]

Get an overseas friend to deposit your $ into his own Stars account, then have him go into Stars and transfer $ to your account. Do the reverse to withdraw, with your friend sending you the money by check or PayPal, etc.

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just look at party's deposit options right now. i can click one button and get sent to a site to buy a "phone card" with my creditcard and use it to fund my account. party could create dozens of these sites each week.
and as for withdrawls i wouldn't worry. if they start blocking those, party would probably start mailing us anonymous visa gift cards(which would only help me in my quest to not pay taxes)

[Our House]

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The real answer is that we all need to become professional sports bettors on horse racing.

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From what I hear, Ed Miller and Sklansky have already begun writing "Small Stakes Lotteries" and "Theory of Horses".

[STALLOWN3D]

Hey guys, I've been looking for the bill that the House passed and have been unsuccessful so far. I was wondering a few things:

1) Can someone send me a link that contains what the bill says

2) This still has to pass the Senate right? So we are safe until that happens?

If you could help answer these questions for me or at least point me in the direction to find them. Also, post any links that you feel are relevant to this topic. Thanks

[oreopimp]

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Neteller better start to rethink its business strategy and fee structures.

1. They need to immediately encourge non gambling business to use their processing services. Right now they would hard to emplain they do non gambling transactions.

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they dont do gambling transactions. if you mean transfering money to online casinos then yeah, but thats not a gambling transaction...Neteller isnt in the business of accepting bets. Anyway being an intermediary to online casinos is one facet of their business.

They do peer to peer transfers and have over 3500 merchants that accept neteller and daily transactions. Think of it as paypal but they also have the add on of doing transfers to say, Party. either way, they are diverse enough to seperate themselves by far, from say IGMpay which is just an intermediary to Party.

[DDBeast]

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Hey guys, I've been looking for the bill that the House passed and have been unsuccessful so far. I was wondering a few things:

1) Can someone send me a link that contains what the bill says

2) This still has to pass the Senate right? So we are safe until that happens?

If you could help answer these questions for me or at least point me in the direction to find them. Also, post any links that you feel are relevant to this topic. Thanks

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Get with the times, this IS the senate. Just needs to be signed by the prez, which despite general theory of prob and statistics, has about a 196.7% chance of happening.

[vilemerchant]

Yes, there's all plenty of ways for professional players to deposit and withdraw their funds to get around the ban. But are the fish going to bother with any of that when they can just go back to their home/live games? If a fish generally makes a deposit after he gets his pay check, is he really going to jump thru hoops every other week so he can give his money away like normal?