PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker shut down by FBI

I thought we were going in the other direction and allowing online Gambling.

I see all these states authorizing casinos, slots at race tracks etc - then this happens = confused.


Is Bush still in power, or is this a Obama ?

https://federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=35&sid=2345684

Legalize it and tax it. Simple enough. Then our government can "piss this new monies away" like they do every revenue source!

An e-chip, and an e-chair.

the reason being that states are tryin to start online gambling. So if they bust the offshores, money flows into these "legal" sites. Not hard to figure out.

Just a few day ago, I believe Washington, D.C. passed some sort of online gambling legislation. Don't know any details.

It's not even my money. Some stranger on Full Tilt transferred $4.82 to my account. Just logged on one day to fool around on the play money tables and there it was. I had it up to $8 but went on a losing streak with a couple bad beats.

Unbelievable. The Justice Department won't prosecute an open-and-shut case of voter intimidation by the Black Panthers, but they'll prosecute the online poker sites and screw hundreds of thousands of Americans out of doing something they love. Fortunately I didn't have much in there, about $150 each at both Stars and FTP, but FUCK THEM!

And yes I know the mods have this fetish about politics, but sorry kids, this is unavoidable due to the topic at hand and the convergence of law and gambling. The Dems had absolute power for two years and Barney Frank couldn't get the time of day from Pelosi... for those who dont follow this, Frank has been the online poker's biggest advocate. Normally my politics run the other way but at least the guy was stepping up for us cardplayers.

FUCK THEM! What ever happened to liberals being about liberty? Why not let people do what they want with their money?

Only a right wing crazy evangelical fascist ray-zist scum Administration like Bush and Dick would ever do such a thing....
oh......uh... I mean.....

Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.

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. . . not that there's anything wrong with that.

I'm so pissed at out bastard government. They screw up everything. I'm a teaparty kind of guy. The Government that governs least governs best.