Antwerp here and this is ridiculous, yeah online poker is what they should be working on right now LMFAO how about working on setting up a capable government first jesus christ

I've contacted all the major dutch speaking political parties, and asked them who I should contact for giving input on the gambling law.
I've got most of the persons and sent them a mail. Oldest is now 3 days. Haven't got a reply yet, but it's holiday season so I already assumed most mails will get back slower.

Subject of the mail, in big lines:
- international playerpool is very important for us
- what things can be done to tax the player, yet still play in an international playerpool
- Having to have a physical casino in belgium is unrealistically
- depositlimits > pot/stakes limits
- one of the reasons of France failing is the highness of the tax
- we want a different statute for pure gambling games and skill-luck games like poker and backgammon
- Pokerstars is willing to get in a dialog, they can say a lot more about technical and monetary things then I ever can

that's about it, but obv. a bit more detailed and a lot more friendly.

@ bbfg: I don't think they'll give a crap about people playing against pro's, massive field tourneys or different kind of games. Just stick to the point.
I'll update here if I get a reply. There should be at least 1 replying with at least a '**** off' mail I'd guess.

EDIT: oh yeah, Mol, prov. antwerpen btw

Gooik here , not far from Halle and Buizingen (train crash a few months ago ).

Just get a job in the EU head offices, you will never be short of cash then.

Don't the major poker sites have enough cash to fight this? I mean come on, if you have enough cash you can get anything done. Get to work Stars and FTP imo...

A big FU to the Italian mafia for kicking this whole charade off.

Djeez this is completely crazy.. I'm from the french part of belgium and i'm totally befuddeld about this thing!! It's totally sh%t and i wonna do whatever is possible to stop this!! Common Belgian poker players, let's unite (for one time in this crappy country)

USA is next.

Good job, but please keep in mind Pokerstars' interests in this are different than the players'.

Also a smart choice to go through the political parties directly and leave Marc Callu out of it as much as possible (the guy compares playmoneypoker with heroinaddiction and is the head of gambling regulation commission. He's possibly the most incompetent governement employee in this country and that's saying a lot)

Ghent here

Great job G1lius. <3

Keep us informed pls and thanks a lot for your effort.

Dont mean to derail but posting from bumf**k Central California, I think ur already ahead being right at the border of four awesome, modern, cultured, European countries. Being able (I assume) to travel easily btwn each one whenever u want, wow that would b awesome. Grass is always greener tho.

GL with stopping this regulation guys

Hope people are fighting for good regulation in their own country, if that's the case, and not pushing for a paneuropean solution or anything like that. I'm pretty happy without any legislation about poker where I live thank you very much.

Pokerstars.eu and pokerstars.us is the sad future i guess.

wouldn't mind that, pokerstars.be would be a nightmare though ...

You have to be close to retarded for not minding that!