BarryG - Online Poker should be legal in 6 months

[sqwisssssss]

maybe this will open up some new US sites that can offer me some goddamn rakeback.

[jman220]

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lol you guys can have party. i'll take bellagio.com.

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Exactly. [censored] party when I can play at Harrah's Poker Room online. Imagine the possibilities.... online poker terminals within B&M Casinos in banks like slot machines....

[Gonso]

I said it before, I'll say it again...

If it becomes legal again, everybody's going running back to Party. I'm standing pat at Stars, it will be a [censored] magical exodus of grinders for a week and it will all be mine

mine

MINE!






pow

[0524432]

PS fpp's < Rakeback

[Stellastarr]

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lol at everybody thinking party is still like some mystical place where money falls from the sky and Dikshit gives you handjobs under the table.
Most of the games are just filled with shortstackers and nits.

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haha

[Nielsio]

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I'm sure it will be less than 6 months before congress realizes that they need to pass legislation contrary to the UIEGA. If it hasn't already happened, it will happen in a few weeks. I don't know how slow the process is and how much debate there will be as to whether there is a different approach that should be taken than the Frank and Wexler bills.

Of course, there is always a chance that they will try to push this off until after the 2008 election, but I didn't get this impression. These sanctions are serious. Also, they wouldn't mind getting some tax revenue that can be used to fund other bills.

Barry

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Barry,

I'm the person who put this video up ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HO7AQrsicM ), which you also put on your website (for which I'd like to thank you).

I'd like to urge you to have a listen to these two lectures from the Mises Institute, to understand the long history behind state regulation and their real purposes:

http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/DiLo...iLorenzo-6.mp3
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/DiLo...iLorenzo-7.mp3

(from http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=showname&ID=425 )

Regards,
Niels

[Mitch Evans]

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lol you guys can have party. i'll take bellagio.com.

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Exactly. [censored] party when I can play at Harrah's Poker Room online. Imagine the possibilities.... online poker terminals within B&M Casinos in banks like slot machines....

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Well, I would be a little worried if I were you. Being that the internet is so accessible and people lack control gambling online more so than in B&M and funding would be so easy to do, it wouldn't surprise me if part of the regulations would be to severely limit the stakes at which people can gamble for online.

[Dima2000123]

I hope it's not going to be a step back for those unfortunate enough to be living in those 11 states. People living there might actually go from having access to less than perfect online poker world, to having no access at all, if all poker sites decide to go straight.

[Gonso]

Also, if this isn't proof Barry is one of us I don't know what is

If only he could mspaint

[Dima2000123]

I also agree about people being careful about what they wish for. There are 1001 ways the gov't can make poker unprofitable while regulating it, so it might be a Pyrrhic victory.