Posted on 04/05/2010 9:45:58 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
Many of the lobbyists that pushed to outlaw Internet Gambling were working for the brick-and-mortar gaming industry. Others were advocates for the government, they didn’t like what they couldn’t tax.
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Liquor in the front.
Poker in the rear...
I didn’t even know about the existence of “professional poker players” in the same sense it would apply to, say, golfers. Do they get sponsors rather than gambling their own money?
If there are really professional high rollers like this, it would be no obstacle for them to physically go to an offshore casino.
To get started, you use your own money. Once you get good, then the sponsors line up. Sponsors want their "employees" to advertise, and will line up professional poker players for most of the televised poker tournaments out there. Sponsorship may include flying the professional to the tournament, paying the entrance fee and paying for the initial stake, plus room and some food.
Not a lot, but better than going to a tournament on your own nickel.
Full Tilt is my favorite poker site. I play on it at least several times a week. I guess Obama does not like that he can’t tax all of that money. What a bunch of ingrates! Gambling away your money rather than letting me have it.
Poker is a game of skill, not just chance. I’d think that after all this noise, the investigation will quietly go away.
That being so, there’s something about live poker that can’t be duplicated over a computer screen.
while it’s easy to throw darts at Obama for this one lets not forget that the UIGEA was tacked onto a Port Security Act by: Jim Leach, Jon Kyl, and Bill Frist....
Oddly, our best friend in this fight is Barney Frank in the senate.
Lobbying we do have Al D’Amato.
see my post 12
I do very well playing Texas Hold ‘em on the computer. At Vegas, not so much but I have done very well at the Blackjack tables. Good enough that I have gotten comped room upgrades, fight and show tickets, even loaded gift cards. All so I would stay and give the casino a chance to win their money back. I usually wind up blowing that money and coming back home just a few hundred bucks short.
Gambling and numbers rackets are now monopolies of the states.
“Liquor in the front.
Poker in the rear...”
That’s Awesome!
Oohh... Phil... the best poker player in the world (not!!)
A while back on Poker After Dark he pulled a Royal. But he’s not very good at betting, hell, I could have got the pot bigger than that!
They might have a hard time snagging Ferguson. Dudes got a PHD in mathematics and logic. As long as he might have a winning hand, he won’t fold....
its just a sham...an openly assinine made up law to protect the other gamling mobsters..
infact, the tournements can be won by nobodies that don't follow the "rules" of betting.....all it takes is one aggressive player and he can beat the "professionals" who do everything on the odds, and not emotion....
Snitch?
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