god can ftp payback and online poker get legal and regulated? so this **** doesnt haveta happen? lol and +1 on the punishment in this case does NOT fit the crime.

stars might come back to USA 1 day i believe if they cut an agreement

Source?

Ricestud played in Mexico pre black friday. Not just tourist areas either, he speaks spanish and travels into the cities, border towns, mountain areas, etc. He's far from some post black friday relocating player.

Not to mention that if Mexico banned online poker and the USA allowed it, Mexican players would probably be moving to the USA for at least a few weeks (as long as they possibly could in their individual situations) to keep grinding their livelihood. Pretty crappy if they reported a player because he's from another country. We're poker players and OUR governments have been screwing with a game they don't really understand for years. Maybe not the Mexican government, but it's hardly the US government that is screwing things up here. France, Belgium, Germany to name just a few.

If you replaced immoral with "knowingly against the rules of the site/country" that's fine.

Immoral is kind of a stretch though. Would you trust Ricestud less because of his actions? Do you consider him any lesser of a person? Do you think what he did was a bad thing? I think the people that slipped the loosely worded laws into unrelated legislation years ago that is now being aggressively interpreted in order to seize large sums of money is wrong and immoral. That's my opinion though.

Based on the stakes he plays and what his bankroll was at the time I would say he was underolled not overolled as you suggest

This was one of the main things I was trying to point out by making this thread. It's totally unreasonable to lifeban one player while allowing another to continue playing for the same offense.

Hello,

Just saw that Ricestud is back up on Stars, not sure how long it's been but just wondering how the situation was resolved? Grats on being back up and GL

wow really? he is back?

Any updates?

wasnt the opening statement here that it shows stars do not specifically favor high volume players but maintains the rules for everyone?

Whilst I have sympathies for the individual in question do not think poker should be banned in the US and have no ill or negative wishes to the individual been discussed I worry this may be a sign of worse things.

if they let rules slide for high volume players now then how does that apply to high volume colluders? or Bots?
that's not to allege that pokerstars has ever let a high volume colluding ring get away with it, due to high volume or bots for the same reason But it does to me raise concerns and alarms that such could potentially happen in the future.