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11-04-2007, 10:03 AM
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The sad results of prohibition.
A mathematician and former professor was shot and killed when masked men with guns broke into a floating poker game on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan late Friday night, the police said.
New Jersey Man Is Killed in Mid-Town Poker Game 
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#2
11-04-2007, 12:09 PM
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Re: The sad results of prohibition.
Folks, make sure every senator and congressman gets this. Ask those who favor restrictions on folks playing poker if they wish how successrul they feel right now.
Almost always, the protectionist and moral attempts to keep folks from doing what they wish make things worse. Abraham Lincoln said it very well.  Tuff
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#3
11-04-2007, 12:21 PM
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Re: The sad results of prohibition.
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Folks, make sure every senator and congressman gets this [/ QUOTE ] their response will not be "laws against gambling force gambling to the underground." it will be "ZPMG!! GUNS!!!! POKER!! BLWAHHHHHH!!!!!"
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11-04-2007, 02:41 PM
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Re: The sad results of prohibition.
As if the UIGEA had anything to do with this...
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11-04-2007, 02:55 PM
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Re: The sad results of prohibition.
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As if the UIGEA had anything to do with this... [/ QUOTE ] Who said it did? [ QUOTE ] Generally, it is legal in New York to play poker for money, but illegal for the organizers to profit. [/ QUOTE ]
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#9
11-04-2007, 05:17 PM
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Re: The sad results of prohibition.
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The original post certainly implied there is a link [/ QUOTE ] How so? I thought, perhaps incorrectly, that D$D was referring to the general prohibitionist stance against gambling in the US (ie illegal in the majority of locals, or severely restricted, $5 bj hands at local bars). This results in underground games with sketchy security and large piles of cash and hence incidents like the one mentioned in the article.
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