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Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI
The Los Angeles Times ^
| 4/15/2011
| Nathaniel Popper
Posted on 04/15/2011 1:23:56 PM PDT by NYRepublican72
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Doesn't Barry and his government cronies have something better to do? I swear. These crooks in the White House are worse than the mob.
To: NYRepublican72
And online gambling was just legalized in Washington DC. Coincidence?
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:25:54 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: NYRepublican72
Not only that - "billions" were flowing through the Too Big To Prosecute Banks, and NONE of Obama's Bankster Buddies got indicted.
They was TRICKED, I tell ya!!!
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:26:40 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
To: NYRepublican72
The government hates competition.
To: NYRepublican72
So now all of the sites will move offshore.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:27:50 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: NYRepublican72
I love to play poker, but have never used these on-line poker games. To me, it seems like an industry that is RIPE for cheating. Is there a computer system in the world that isn't "hackable"? I'm not so sure.
Plus, the fun of poker is playing the person at the table, right? It's an especially social game, in that regard.
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:29:12 PM PDT
by
screaminsunshine
(Shut up and eat your Beans!)
To: NYRepublican72
Looks like the Feds said, “ALL IN”.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:29:44 PM PDT
by
JPG
("2012 Can't Come Soon Enough" - Sarah Palin)
To: dfwgator
They are already offshore!
To: NYRepublican72
Wow I feel so much safer now. Lame.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:30:48 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: dfwgator
So now all of the sites will move offshore. They are already offshore. Half the guys who own the sites live in like Costa Rica or Isle of Mann. The only result is that some of these sites are now not allowing Americans to gamble in money tournaments.
The US government is stupid. If they had half a clue, they'd pass the bill legalizing it. The last thing I want is the government's hand in another cookie jar, but you'd think they'd get significant tax revenue from allowing online poker.
To: OldDeckHand
Agree completely. On top of what you said it’s rather hard to pick up tells on-line.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:35:06 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(I can haz CW2 now?)
To: dfwgator
So now all of the sites will move offshore.
Most of the servers already WERE offshore, or at least outside the US. PokerStars, IIRC, was in Canada.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:36:24 PM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-eyed killer of the deep.)
To: screaminsunshine
looks like their going to take the money along with what ever the players had kind of like GM stock holders ,
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:39:19 PM PDT
by
mdel747
To: NYRepublican72
Is there anything the federal government feels that it doesn’t have the right to do? I’d like to know, so maybe I could feel that there is some semblance, some remnant, some crumb of freedom left in this country.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:39:19 PM PDT
by
thesharkboy
(<-- looking for the silver lining)
To: NYRepublican72
I heard they were using marked cards.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:40:40 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: battletank
But the executives that were arrested were in Utah and Nevada, a lot harder to do that when the executives are in Moscow.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:41:27 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: NYRepublican72
The F-B-I shut down Wall Street?????
/s
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:41:37 PM PDT
by
TruthConquers
(.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: dfwgator
They already were offshore. The FBI seized the domains, not the physical equipment. Since ICAAN is in the USA, we pretty have complete control over domains.
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posted on
04/15/2011 1:45:54 PM PDT
by
Melas
To: Melas
And it’s just the websites that are down, for now. The poker software probably just points directly to the server and works fine.
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