Of course you can show us these facts right? Link please.

Since poker isn't my main source of revenue, i don't report my winning
I'm breaking the law?

Poker is quite obviously a skill game. You having no skill at it is not my fault.

Offshore sites may or may not be within U.S. law. Some people think they are, others think they aren't. There has been no definitive court ruling on this subject.

I'd say it is proven beyond a fact that sports betting over the wire is illegal (though to be honest sports betting could be considered skill gambling also .... courts seem to have not adopted that).

I'd imagine that you are right in that a decent number of online poker players do not report their winnings on taxes. That said I do not need to enjoy it while it lasts because I am not one of them. I report everything.

Well, yes you are. Everybody is supposed to report all winning gambling sessions as gross income even if gambling is just a hobby. However, if you decide to take itemized deductions you can deduct losing gambling sessions.

U.S. Tax Info Thread:


http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57...ts-faq-740589/

a c'mon i was waiting for BOP to respond to this.

(soft answer for you)
And sorry we don't have the same tax law ;P
Hobby = windfall

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
ALSO, VERY IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER. THOSE "MAJORITY OF PLAYERS YOU SPEAK OF ARE SHILLS FOR THE SITES OR TIED FINANCIALLY TO THE SITES IN SOME WAY. THAT IS WHY YOU KEEP GETTING THROWN OFF OF WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW TO BE TRUE.

Poker is part skill part luck. You know it I know it. Just because you recite the same propaganda to try to make offshore sites legal doesn't make it so. Have another glass of Kool Aide. Also the reason there is no court rulings is there is no courts. These sites are on land that aide and collude with them. Since they pay off and employ people. So spare us yet another baseless talking point.

BANONLINEPOKER, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. JUST LIKE THE REST OF US WHO KNOW THESE SITES ARE A SCAM. STAY THE **** OFF OF THEM. JUST LIKE DRUG DEALERS, THE ONLY WAY TO SHUT THEM DOWN IS TO TAKE AWAY THEIR INCOME. VERY EASY. DO IT!

...wut?

I wish the country I lived in treated it that way.

Rofl you don't have enough self-discipline to stay away

Everything is "part skill, part luck". Owning a restaurant, baseball, walking across the street, everything.

The fact is that poker is a skill game with a very large amount of variance. I'd imagine that you are a recreational poker player who is bad at it and therefore you don't really play that much and you do poorly. Maybe you think how much you play is a lot, but I doubt that it actually is.


And there are lots of courts in the U.S (I was talking about U.S. courts by the way so I guess you should go back and re-read since you somehow thought I was talking about courts somewhere else.) None of them (I mean U.S. courts) have made definitive rulings on online poker sites offering games to U.S. citizens. (Washington State is the exception where it is pretty well agreed on that it is illegal.) And even if that ruling were made at some point it would pretty clearly violate WTO rulings (not that the U.S. isn't already in violation of these WTO rulings already anyway).






P.S.

There's no "e" in Kool-Aid.

Yes, it is completely different for criminal cases....and a civil case can be brought by anyone cheated. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.

Incorrect.

Depends where you live.

Repeating the same lies over and over again does not make them true.

This applies even if you shout the lies in BLOCK CAPITALS.

That depends on the number of hands you are assessing to make the distinction.

^^^^ Whenever you have a moment, Mike.

wrong

wrong

Agreed.

Are you a stand-up comedian?

Are you Steve's brother?

Would you care to explain why you think that Lego05's perfectly reasonable comment was in some way comical?