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Originally Posted by Acesfullofgarbage
You're like that girl that gets beat up by her boyfriend but keeps going back
If by "beat up by her boyfriend" you mean "make 5 figures a year for clicking buttons" then yeah you better believe I'm coming back.
PS is hands down the best site in the world and I have a hard time believing it won't be worth coming back to in the future, and FT has RUSH poker, which was like free money if you worked the rakeback/promos right.
The only reason either site had problems at any point in the last 5 years was because of the government. No government protectionism bought by Harrah's, horse racing, and the NFL = PS and FT processing our deposits and withdrawals within minutes and without lack of transparency, which is what they were doing pre-UIGEA before Prohibition II created a gray market in the US.
Even in this gray area, the sites circumvented laws not to screw us players, but to bypass obviously ******ed legislation that arbitrarily decided poker is illegal in the court of (massively ignorant) public opinion.
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Originally Posted by Jerok
wat am i reading
He's just saying that in the pre-UIGEA Party Poker days, any idiot could make money playing poker. And a ton of people were making sick amounts of money because of it.
It wasn't about how good you were as a player back then. It was how bad everyone else was around you. As such, a person who is banking 5 figs now probably bank 6 or more pre-UIGEA. It was that soft.
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Originally Posted by Fedorfan
Well when you already have a cartel with limited competition and you're printing money as it is, the natural reaction seems to be to resist change, for fear of new competition, lower margins, ect. Similar with the recording industry and online music, movie/tv with online content options youtube/hulu/netflix streaming...
And like the owners of sports teams who blackout televised games or even earlier didn't want radio broadcasts of their games for fear of loss in ticket sales, they're all morons too imo.