An Important Point About Harrahs Entrance Into The Online Poker Market

[Scary_Tiger]

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Elite Modeling agency doesn't provide 14 year old escorts in Thailand.

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Trust Sklansky, he knows.

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Only way that works is if Harrah's is an admired company, like, for example, Starbucks, which provides health insurance for its employees. As far as I know, Harrah's does not command the same level of respect, and anyway, it's a gambling enterprise - the idea that they would want to expand into areas where online gambling is legal wouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. So I think David is overstating the impact this will have.

[Ansky]

I agree w/ David.

I can't wait till US sites are legal, gonna be like Christmas every day.

[supafrey]

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Presumably if something is immoral in the US, we should consider it immoral everywhere

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Um, no.

[augie_]

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I agree w/ David.

I can't wait till US sites are legal, gonna be like Christmas every day.

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it might give me the incentive to drop out of school for a third time!!!

[MicroBob]

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I'm aware of these arguments, they are not a "morality distinction". OP was based on morality, which is why I took issue with it.

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I don't know exactly what you mean then.
Don't some people think it's morally acceptable to have legalized gambling as long as it is controlled and regulated within the US?

Some of the people who thought it was so immoral to have internet-gambling within the U.S. feel it's okay to have the carve-outs for the horse-racing stuff over the internet.
I guess I don't truly know whether they think the horse-racing stuff is somehow less immoral but that appears to be the case to me.

In other words, I've heard some of the Christian groups railing against the immoral and illegal internet-gambling sites but they are not screaming about the land-based casinos within the U.S. so I thought it was reasonable to deduce they are more comfortable with them.

I don't think they are just ignoring the land-based casinos just because it would be impossible for them to shut them down. I truly felt many conservatives had come to terms with land-based casinos and don't consider them to be as immoral as they perhaps previously did but they still have big issues with the internet-gambling stuff.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Does Harrah's entering the online poker market come as a surprise to anyone? I sure hope not. As you may or may not know Harrah's contributed about 50K to Senator Bill Frist's campaign. So the racket goes like this: Harrah's throws Bill 50 Gs to tack on a [censored] anti-online poker act onto an already passing bill. Online poker gets booted from the states. Harrah's now enters the market as a legit taxable company. The US gets god knows how much money from a regulated online poker industry. I know most people already knew this was gonna happen but for those who didn' there you go.

[1p0kerboy]

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I agree w/ David.

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[Joe Tall]

I guess many don't understand how much money is involved for Harrahs and MGM; outside US alone. If China or Asia countries trend up in personal computer usage, its not close.

[Bellagibro]

Asia for the most part is a big untapped market for online gaming in general.