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Originally Posted by Romerowned
Anyone else see the America's Card Room commercial on ESPN after the Clippers/Warriors game? They advertised the .net site. Can't believe it after black friday.
Why? It's perfectly legal to advertize a non-gambling (play money) poker site. If your point is it puts them in the DOJ's crosshairs, then that's valid, but a site like this isn't worth the man hours to take them down. Stars, Tilt and UB had the cash behind them to make it worthwhile.
That said, I'm not suggesting this site (or any US facing site) is safe to play on. Anything happening is within reason in this climate - from site security/safety issues to possible DOJ involvement; that is to say, it makes much more sense for the DOJ to seize a processor than to try to coordinate a massive strike against any particular site.
A seized processor takes a fraction of the man work and cost, and they get a slam-dunk UIGEA and bank fraud conviction against the owner of the processor. Since this has yet to happen, we can only speculate on how any site would handle such actions; with Stars and Tilt, it was nearly an annual event for them.
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Originally Posted by SaMASHonYA
Guess I gotta wait till it gets regulated.
The problem is you may be waiting a very long time for this. It is unclear whether the recent DOJ decision will help a federal bill, but it is clear that it will help legislative measures at the state level. However, once a few states pass online poker, it's going to make federal regulation less likely to materialize (IMO) - it will just be left as a matter for individual states to decide.
That will be pretty terrible for the player pool, unless some type of interstate compacts can be negotiated, which I understand will be very difficult achieve. That said, it looks like NV will be the first state to get it up and running, and I'm going to snap move to Vegas when they do.
Everyone here needs to visit the legislation forum to find out what they can do to help make federal legislation attempts successful.