What will happen next?

[William]

What's the next step of the online crisis?

[BiPolar_Nut]

Other: the industry changes like any other. Businesses and customers adapt. Too early to tell how.

[dibbs]

Too early to tell I think.

This new DOJ stuff worries me, if every poker site gets too scared because the US actually really steps up and thus shuts their doors then we're [censored].

If FT, Stars, Bodo, Abso, Mansion, whoever, stick it out, and make sure players have a relatively easy to use payment processor, we only have to worry about games getting a little worse and we'll have to adapt a little. I feel like higher stakes games would be effected much more than small stakes but who knows.

Bleh.

[jman220]

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What's the next step of the online crisis?

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Based on the banking records story, I'd say all major online casinos and pokerrooms will pull out of the U.S. market within the next few weeks.

[JPFisher55]

I don't know what parties will stay in the US market. However, I predict that this whole matter will make the major news and may become a political issue between Bush and the democrats.

[Mark Collins]

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I don't know what parties will stay in the US market. However, I predict that this whole matter will make the major news and may become a political issue between Bush and the democrats.

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LOL. What politician exactly wants to champion GAMBLING? Maybe one or two. But not nearly enough, nor any influential enough, to make this a "major issue".

[jman220]

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I don't know what parties will stay in the US market. However, I predict that this whole matter will make the major news and may become a political issue between Bush and the democrats.

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Definitely no on the second part.

[DVaut1]

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I don't know what parties will stay in the US market. However, I predict that this whole matter will make the major news and may become a political issue between Bush and the democrats.

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Definitely no on the second part.

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Not only is the second part a definite no, it's probably to our advantage (as poker players interested in keeping the games as 'available' as possible) that this isn't a more visible issue.

[barryc83]

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I don't know what parties will stay in the US market. However, I predict that this whole matter will make the major news and may become a political issue between Bush and the democrats.

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Definitely no on the second part.

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I agree with you here Jman, but in your other posts you seem to think doomsday is def. here. It will take a while for the legalities of online gambling to be ironed out. Obv no one has any idea where the status of online sportsbooks and pokerrooms will be in 1 or 2 years.

I'm just saying there is a lot of money at stake for a site like PS if it can find a way to stay in the US market until the fate of online poker has been decided. I personally don't think PS or FTP will be gone in a month for US players, but I understand there is a very real possiblity of this happening. The DOJ article def makes things worse.

Also, will you and Boosted J be playing at all this weekend???

[William]

Would a democrat govt be better for online gambling? I think there were a few threads about this in October last year.
And aren't democrats huge underdogs to win the next elections?