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11-18-2007, 02:31 PM
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Re: Beat the UIGEA from the bottom up
If you want to have a private game you can do it easily with software that exists. No one does it because it is too difficult to administer and the fact that you are running anything could open you up to perceived liability.
I am all for fighting the power but people won't leave what they are currently doing. What I think gets lost in a lot of these arguments is that in about 3 hours I can play for 1/4 million dollars. So that is a big deterrent to starting from 0. 
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11-18-2007, 02:40 PM
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Re: Beat the UIGEA from the bottom up
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Cross post to the software forum xpost Tuff [/ QUOTE ] Actually there is considerable merit to this distributed computing and hosting idea. Tuff I'll e-mail you with further, you may have "solved" a critical issue and significant legal problems. Plus costs a lot less than $1.2 mill to start. I like the way you think! D$D
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11-18-2007, 04:02 PM
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there is nothing stopping all of you from doing this today using free money tables. [/ QUOTE ] And making this an open source project (ie. sourceforge) will provide the programmers and testers we need. This could be the elegant solution we've been waiting for.
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11-18-2007, 04:22 PM
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Re: Beat the UIGEA from the bottom up
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[ QUOTE ] there is nothing stopping all of you from doing this today using free money tables. [/ QUOTE ] And making this an open source project (ie. sourceforge) will provide the programmers and testers we need. This could be the elegant solution we've been waiting for. [/ QUOTE ] Playchip wise it flys. Getting a workable secure legal payment method is still a problem. As is hosting, how do you pay for the servers? D$D
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11-18-2007, 09:41 PM
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Re: Beat the UIGEA from the bottom up
Would it be legal to offer a subscription service? You don't pay a rake or to play, just a monthly fee to log on. Or could you have a subscription service for something else (stock market info, news, music, porn, etc.) that offers poker as a free bonus?
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11-18-2007, 10:17 PM
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Re: Beat the UIGEA from the bottom up
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Would it be legal to offer a subscription service? You don't pay a rake or to play, just a monthly fee to log on. . . Not legal, it is pay for play. . . Or could you have a subscription service for something else (stock market info, news, music, porn, etc.) that offers poker as a free bonus? . . If the right to play is conditional in any way to the purchase of something else..., Illegal. . . [/ QUOTE ] Even selling food and drink in the same proximity as a poker game, ie, having a poker game in the back room of your bar, has been ruled illegal in a number of cases. Even though the purchase of said food and drink is completely voluntary, and you would never be asked to leave if you did not partake. Again, the actual law may vary, and it is totally lame, but authorities have had a decent track record when they have chosen to push the issue. TF
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