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Originally Posted by Chuck Bass
I have my lungs full of tear gas after an incident in Kyrgyzstan last night
has this really not been mentioned once since?
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Originally Posted by fivetypes
There is a clear distinction between people playing on their own sn's from murica, having re-registered an address in mexico or wherever, and those people who have created new accounts in other names to play anonymously in order to gain an edge over other regulars. Or are taking over other accounts when they are deep by remote control. I dont think it should be that hard to distinguish between who is doing something shady to gain an advantage and who is just breaking T and C's by using a VPN because they unwisely decided to knock someone up while playing online MTT's as a career.
agree with this 100%
the distinction needs to be made between the grinder that didn't move out of the country for whatever reason and the multiple horse+backing+ghosting operations that involve dozens of new accounts and teamplay. The former is just trying to get by (often with few alternatives), and yeah he's breaking laws (so let's all stop smoking pot before we cast some stones) but he's not f*cking the community, he's taking a risk with his money and ability to play if he gets caught. He's in essence defying the DoJ and by ratting him out we would be in essence supporting their agenda.
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Originally Posted by pockett
Secondly, I for one have a huge problem with US players using a VPN. I don't care if you have a family to feed, I highly doubt playing poker is your only option. Having US professional poker players in the poker economy but not US recreational players really hurts our bottom line. While the "stealing a loaf of bread for their starving family" is a good analogy they are indirectly stealing from me.
Hard to care for
your 2nd bold part if you hold to your 1st
can we not come after the VPNer's pound of flesh for this offense? Most of 'em aint got many left.. I bounced to australia, cause I could, but if I couldn't I'd be VPN'ing and if I couldn't do that I'd be stealing non-proverbial loaves of bread.
For real though, I think we can agree that a country taking away from you the right to play poker online is an absurd premise. It's all "f*ck you, pay me" obv and in a year or two there will be no more need to VPN from the US cause their hands/pockets will be on the revenue faucet. But in the meanwhile the "indirect robbery" you are experiencing pockett is at the hand of the DoJ and Co. that eradicated the US recreational players from the player pools thus allowing only the best and most dedicated to continue on.
I know it was dark and it happened oh, so quick, but let's identify the right perp in the line-up.
Last edited by krasark; 10-08-2013 at 02:19 AM.
Reason: it's hard to tell who's robbing you in a room full of smoke and mirrors