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Originally Posted by tk1133
So I don't know where you get off acting like I pointed out PS or FTP, in particular....
afaik you certainly insinuated that at IOM sites are more or less unregulated, or at the very least that you don't trust them (from other thread):
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Originally Posted by ItsNotLupus
I never heard of a site playing poker on their customers accounts. Most sites dont even allow their employees to have an account on the site they work for. I guess the same ruling is valid for pokerstars. So I was wondering how many gaming laws Pokerstars violated when that employee started playing hands for a customer.
And why pokerstars would break the integrity of their customers, just to set things right in a freeroll is beyond me.
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Originally Posted by tk1133
+1
But....
What gambling laws? This isn't Las Vegas...
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Originally Posted by BlunderCity
You trust Vegas more than the Isle of Man?
Interesting...
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Originally Posted by tk1133
I can physically shake hands w/ a vegas gaming official...interesting...?
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Originally Posted by SwedishMedusa
and you can't with an iom official?
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Originally Posted by tk1133
Interesting...You tell me...
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Originally Posted by sportsjefe
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Originally Posted by sebasdess
You are right.
Those are only cyber-people...
*rolleyes*
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Originally Posted by SwedishMedusa
http://www.gov.im/gambling/benefits/aboutgcc.xml
"The Treasury devotes resources to the Commission which is made up of a Director, a Policy Officer, five Gaming Inspectors and two Secretaries, who jointly have over 60 years’ experience in the licensing, regulation and operational aspects of gambling."
As stated by posters above IOM is a real place, with actual regulations etc.
You assume too much.
Your attitude (which leads to people calling you a bigot) seems to be "if it's outside of US it
must mean it's unregulated, that there are no laws there, and that any gaming license is just a fancy etiquette you get to put on your site for a fee".
If you're attitude instead was "hmm I wonder if there are *actually* any regulations for these sites" and then you would go out and
research the subject, then people would look at you differently, and respect you more.
More importantly I believe that with such an attitude, applied not only to online poker but to other aspects of life, you would be a less suspicious individual and end up with more energy to use in a positive and constructive way in your life.
assume less, research more. be suspicious and skeptical by all means, I think a certain degree of that is very healthy, but do not assume. (negative) assumptions lead to overly suspiciousness, which may lead to paranoia.
Last edited by SwedishMedusa; 11-05-2009 at 04:58 AM.
Reason: fixed the quote in the quote that had disappeared