***Official PL article thread***

[oldbookguy]

Time to set up an account, another comment thread we need to own.

All these articles being posted, we need to comment in mass on, we need our side told.

obg

[kwansolo]

Originally Posted by jchaannngggg

OP, please change the title of this thread if you can to something like "Time Magazine Opinion Piece: Keeping Us Safe From Poker" to make sure people read this. I think this is something our community can really rally behind.

think a mod has to do that (go ahead mods). i also x-posted to nvg.

[stevematador]

Saw this earlier on Twitter, we do need to re-tweet these types of stories to let our voices and side of this be heard!!

[Skallagrim]

Originally Posted by stevematador

Saw this earlier on Twitter, we do need to re-tweet these types of stories to let our voices and side of this be heard!!

Yes!

[kikadell]

Time grabs headlines, well i never...

[James282]

It's amazing because, like, not a single person has come forth and said, "Nice job, DOJ!" It's pretty much unanimous, right? Awesome representative govt. we have here!

[blink20]

Likewise, Bhahara may be impotent against the real malefactors on Wall Street, but at the very least he can be a killjoy to one of the Street's favorite leisure pursuits. Now they'll have to go back to gambling with our money.

Read more: http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time....#ixzz1K1DfmG16

awesome

[BAK]

Originally Posted by James282

It's amazing because, like, not a single person has come forth and said, "Nice job, DOJ!" It's pretty much unanimous, right? Awesome representative govt. we have here!

The Christian Science Monitor thought it was a great idea.

[savant111]

Reposted on my FB wall. Thanks!

[Lottery Larry]

Originally Posted by kwansolo

http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time....fe-from-poker/

"Puritan Preet's raid on Internet poker sites in a country where gambling is legal in all 50 states"

oops.... or did I miss a state or two changing their laws in the last few months?

[TomVeil]

No but those states have state lotteries.

[Lottery Larry]

Originally Posted by TomVeil

No but those states have state lotteries.

The Mormons have a state lottery?

checking....

I don't see anything on gambling being legal in Utah... did I not look hard enough?

[well named]

apparently there are some fine dining establishments offering a rousing game of bingo with your meal. So all 50 states it is!

[threebanger]

Best comment under the article?

"CASH PAYOUTS: problem solved?! ???

Say Pokerstars had a cash window (like a racetrack) in England where you could travel to to pick up your payouts. Sounds perfectly legal for you to pick up your own payout outside the US. Matter of fact you could pick up a Pokerstars money order in England and cash it in in the English bank it was drawn or check cashing store (if they have such) -- and reconvert the cash into a money order to send to yourself in the US. No foreign bank account needed -- just you in person. No gambling enterprise would be sending a financial instrument to a US bank -- that is all the law prohibits AFAIK.

NEXT STEP: Say a player's personal rep goes and does the same thing for him: same legal payout process. Or, suppose, instead, some smart cookie opens a business in the US where they charge players (plural) a fee to travel to Pokerstars cash payougt window in England -- or just as legally open the same business in England to act as player pickup rep -- to pick up our winnings in cash for us -- not working for Pokerstars; working for us -- and then send checks or money orders to us in the US. No gambling enterprise would be sending a financial instrument to a US bank -- that is all the law prohibits AFAIK.

NEXT STEP: Say Pokerstars sends cash to US players. When I worked as a truckers helper for a Wall Street Bank in the early 1970s we took tons of mail to the Post Office some of which was registered mail containing cash going to South America. I was told that Registered mail must to be signed for by every person whose hands it passes through all the way to the recipient. Pokerstars could send small to medium payouts by registered mail right now. Really large deliveries could be done by armed insured messenger (you might want to make an appointment to meet the messenger in a bank). No gambling enterprise would be sending a financial instrument to a US bank -- that is all the law prohibits AFAIK."

[TomVeil]

FTP's processor sent me a small ($24?) amount to me in cash to settle my last week's rakeback after they kicked me off (WA st).