Bush Investigates Online Gaming, Cheating . . .

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I found this article:

ONLINE POKER NOT GAMBLING BUT PURCHASING
Joe Traintain
AP

Amidst reports of illegal online gambling in the United States, President Bush ordered a federal investigation, the results of which were published Tuesday. Included in the report were statistics proving several popular online gaming sites, specifically poker websites have a built in "house edge" to increase rake. Party Poker, Paradise Poker, Full Tilt Poker, Ultimate Bet Poker and Poker Stars were all named in the report. The basic idea is that the site makes certain hand combinations more prevalent than others to increase the fees paid to the site. In layman's terms the site will give two players very good cards to entice them to bet more because the more they bet the more the site makes. The sites were thought to be safe because of independent tracking software that monitors the cards but the sites easily fooled the software by balancing out the statistical anomalies on other tables with house(computer programs or employees) players. The FBI is in the process of contacting these companies and shutting them down within the next week. John Tector, an online player says, "I can't believe it, but it does make sense. I mean when I first went on the site I made lots of money but then I lost it all in a two week period."

Check this link for the article: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368307/

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John Tector, an online player says, "I can't believe it, but it does make sense. I mean when I first went on the site I made lots of money but then I lost it all in a two week period."


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LOL

[guids]

Caption from your link " A young man gets more than he bargained for when a tall dark and sexy guy picks him up one night."

sounds like this movie was made about you???

[bigt2k4]

I knew it was true, today I saw back to back 2 pair lose to higher 2 pair and I my AA was cracked 3 of the last 5 times.

[absoludicrous]

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Caption from your link " A young man gets more than he bargained for when a tall dark and sexy guy picks him up one night."

sounds like this movie was made about you???

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[RoyalLance]

Damn 12-year-olds.

[SNOWBALL]

I knew something was up. I missed my last two flush draws, and then my AK missed teh flop on the next hand. Rigged.

[DuckHunter]

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Party Poker, Paradise Poker, Full Tilt Poker, Ultimate Bet Poker and Poker Stars were all named in the report. The basic idea is that the site makes certain hand combinations more prevalent than others to increase the fees paid to the site.

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I wouldn't be surprised if this fact was true. And no I'm not a moron who screams that online poker is rigged but you guys assume the people who run poker sites are moral and ethical angels. Money can corrupt people, look at Enron, Tyco, etc.

[MrFizzbin]

Great Joke Post,

Lets see, its April 1st, and we're implying George Bush does anyting proactive other than vacation... HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AH

[TStoneMBD]

i was hoping to get a laugh from an april fools post today, usually they suck. this one was pretty good, nh.