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09-05-2010 , 09:55 PM

#201

bbfg

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Current affairs is the word you're looking for

. And I have no idea how the governments actually work in Belgium, does anyone really?

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09-06-2010 , 10:54 AM

#202

G1lius

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Currect affairs is about urgent matters and important things that are nearly finished. These KB's are neither urgent or nearly finished.

Just because one KB took 7 years doesn't mean anything. It can be made today, and signed tomorrow (well, not really atm, but you get the point). Just a matter of how many people have other views on it.
If you want to know something about the workings of the government, just google/wiki it.
Most important thing about a KB: it doesn't need to be voted.

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09-08-2010 , 08:49 AM

#203

fromwhere

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For those who understand french...Very good news so far in france :

http://www.numerama.com/magazine/166...vernement.html , would suggest to translate and send to politics ...

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09-08-2010 , 09:14 AM

#204

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My french is bad but my attempt at cliffs:
While all sites knew an increase in traffic, only a very small percentage of that increase actually started playing real money poker, and thus after the initial boom traffic has dropped considerably, and is expected to keep dropping the coming months, which questions the effectiveness of the system/law.

Very good news if I got it right.

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09-08-2010 , 10:24 AM

#205

Above&Beyond

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Finally got myself an account here on 2+2. I'm a Belgian pokerplayer aswell (micro-mids) as most of u are and I'm very pleased to see that action has been taken concerning this matter. If I can be of any help, please let me know, and I will certainly put time in it.

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09-08-2010 , 05:52 PM

#206

fromwhere

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Originally Posted by bbfg

Yhea it s good news after 3 months , they already see that they failed and if it continue like that they have to open the market to foreign player :-)

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09-10-2010 , 05:34 AM

#207

fromwhere

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Hello guys, nothin to do with gaming comission but more with our country , found it nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmCSy...layer_embedded

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09-10-2010 , 06:37 AM

#208

breakevenpro

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good news

1.1 Deposit Bonus/Promotions
Although Estonian players will have to sign into the Estonian Client, they
will still be able to play against .COM players. This means that they will
be eligible for all global promotions and will still use the First Deposit
Code STARS600.

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09-10-2010 , 08:03 AM

#209

bbfg

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VERY good news, and was kinda expecting this, even if everyone in Estonia played poker the servers would still have been pretty empty

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09-10-2010 , 08:32 AM

#210

G1lius

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Originally Posted by breakevenpro

Source?

Will pokerstars/estonian players pay extra taxes?

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09-10-2010 , 08:56 AM

#211

BoyanD

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Originally Posted by G1lius

Got an e-mail back from one of the co-workers of carl devlies

in English free and cliffnote-like translation: we realize the problems of the international playerpool and hourly loss. Since we don't have a government at the moment we have to wait until a new government settles in. Remarks and suggestions from u will be usefull and welcome.

if so, we are safe for a while, I don't see a new government anytime soon

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09-10-2010 , 10:33 AM

#212

Willem90

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Originally Posted by fromwhere

Hello guys, nothin to do with gaming comission but more with our country , found it nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmCSy...layer_embedded

crappy political video. Probobly popular in wallonia. I don't like it and these videos make me hate walloons. Gtfo with those videos

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09-10-2010 , 11:39 AM

#213

breakevenpro

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Originally Posted by G1lius

Source?

Will pokerstars/estonian players pay extra taxes?

email from pokerstars

1.5 Commission and Tax
Due to legal requirements, PokerStars will be required to pay tax on revenue
(rake & tournament fees) generated under the Estonian License.

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09-10-2010 , 11:47 AM

#214

Vexed?

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Originally Posted by breakevenpro

email from pokerstars

1.5 Commission and Tax
Due to legal requirements, PokerStars will be required to pay tax on revenue
(rake & tournament fees) generated under the Estonian License.

So you can play poker on any poker website in Estonia and it's not illegal, correct?

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09-10-2010 , 11:49 AM

#215

breakevenpro

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Originally Posted by Vexed?

So you can play poker on any poker website in Estonia and it's not illegal, correct?

this is just about stars dunno about others

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09-10-2010 , 11:58 AM

#216

Vexed?

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So Pokerstars now have an operating license in Estonia? Only them and Olympic atm, basically they have 100% of Estonia's legal online poker players. Well 95% will, 4% IP/domain hack to get on Tilt etc and 1% play on Olympic.

http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/pokers...estonia-14921/

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09-11-2010 , 05:29 AM

#217

fromwhere

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Originally Posted by Willem90

crappy political video. Probobly popular in wallonia. I don't like it and these videos make me hate walloons. Gtfo with those videos

it s a video about beeing united and not splitted by politics stupid , gtfo with your racism and go quick to Ebay , buy a brain !

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09-11-2010 , 05:50 AM

#218

anythingacid

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good thing they came up with good news

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09-21-2010 , 07:51 PM

#219

John Mehaffey

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http://www.poker777.com/20100921/bel...-from-2011.php

According to this article Belgium went the way of only licensing Belgian licensed B&M's today. Can anyone confirm? Are there other articles on it? This is the only one I can find ATM so I'm hoping someone can confirm.

Edit, is this just recycled old news? If so what is the current status?

Last edited by John Mehaffey; 09-21-2010 at 08:18 PM.

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09-21-2010 , 08:18 PM

#220

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Last sentence indeed makes me believe it's recycled old news. that " last we heard ", is very old info iirc.

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09-21-2010 , 08:22 PM

#221

doomslang

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Originally Posted by Vexed?

So you can play poker on any poker website in Estonia and it's not illegal, correct?

Correct. It's the obligation of the ISP to block the user. Anyone who wants can still play anywhere tho, just 2 clicks away.

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09-22-2010 , 05:47 AM

#222

fromwhere

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Originally Posted by bbfg

Last sentence indeed makes me believe it's recycled old news. that " last we heard ", is very old info iirc.

Old news i think , still suggest to be used to vpn before 2011 ( i m not too stressed i don t think we ll have a government soon :-) )

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09-22-2010 , 07:37 AM

#223

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Beginning of January till end of January I have examinations anyway so wouldn't be the worst timing to be blocked from my poker addiction for a while

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I do plan on still writing a letter though, am starting at it today or tomorrow.

Has anyone seriously considered wether printing something in the media would be a good idea?

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09-23-2010 , 01:56 AM

#224

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http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/989/Bin...schappen.dhtml
State lottery plans to launch poker-site in Belgium in 2011 (and a bookmaker function).
Reason: to benefit from the 145.000 online belgian players, and to compete with the 'illegal gambling sites' (referring to pokersites or sportsbookmakers...?)