300 million is nothing to them .. the US government spends a billion dollars every time someone farts

Those worried about "dollars leaving the USA" need to brush up on their economics:

Chapters 11 & 12 from Hazlitt's economics in one lesson:

11. Who's "Protected" by Tariffs?
12. The Drive for Exports

It wasn't the pope, it was a few cardinals practicing collusion in the Sistine chapel.

so this year net losses = $200million

that is shared between PP and FTP.

I guess it doesnt include SnG's and tourneys and 100% of hands.

1/2 of that is $100million for ftp in 6 months. Then they ship out 1/3 of that in rakeback.
And they obviously have operating expenses, eg funding a brilliant help desk, great customer service team, investigators.
Then they ship stuff out to Red Pros.
I would hazzard that takes up to another 1/3 of the loot, leaving $30 million profit for 6 months. Maybe double that or less to include sng and mtt, so profit of about $100Million for 1 year before tax.

upon careful examination of these random hypotheticals pulled out of your ass, i can conclude that the above is :

confrimed

Peoples Rebublic of Full Tilt.

I love the title of the results. Its really "FTP's profits". lol


morons--that money is not leaving USA. its going into Lederer, Ferguson, Ivey, and durr's pockets lol.

but it is proably good for the human race as a whole.

Lets put the good of online poker ahead of the good of the human race. Yay. What predatory ****heads this thread has.

wtf is wrong with trying to make a living?

So Belarus is #1 at online cash game poker net amount, and they're #1 with having the coolest national library:

Making a living that creates something for society = good.

Wasting your obvious talents by making a living gambling = bad.

is ptr run by american casinos?

nice level

I just browsed and didn't see it yet, but if you calculate the sum of all of the totals it is -$754,349,258.00

which means assuming ftps 27% rakeback you get $203,674,299 given back for the tracked games.

netting ftp and party $550,674,958 for the tracked games over the time frame

The only reason that US, UK and other big countries are losing so much is because poker is most popular there and it has the most fish, not because one country is better then another.