Pseudo-religious, pseudo-moralist, crony-corporate Nanny State PING!
Breathtaking to think how many people’s lives and families have been ruined by gambling.
The lucky ones are the ones who lose early on and aren’t attracted to devoting lots of their time and hopes on it.
The dirty secret of online poker - the successful are all cheating the dupes who try to play. It is way too easy to either keep in voice chat communication with your friends at the table to cheat any patsy that joins or simply fill the table with alternate accounts all run by one person leaving one empty seat for a patsy.
Well, reading the village voice article, everyone wins at online gambling. Let’s send all our unemployed there to become millionaires.
When Americans have to go to Costa Rica to find freedom, something is definitely wrong.
bfl
Yea, it’s all fame an glory. Nobody writes stories about the losers, the ruined live’s, the suicides, the life of crime.
For every online winning player there’s 3 cheats making 2 x more with 1/2 the effort, and for every winning player including the cheats, there are 98 losers of varying degrees.
Everybody I’ve ever met claims to win online, but all the players I know who actually do win in B&M (including me), say it’s impossible to play online without getting cheated or scammed or having your money confiscated.
I loved it after black friday (they day they were shut down). It was like shooting ducks in a barrel at the live cash games. All those players who thought stats like VP$IP, CB, AGR and W$SD simply ruled the game found out otherwise. It was almost embarrassing watching most of them degenerate.