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Originally Posted by Alizona
Great... so we'll get yet another layer on the online shell game onion? That's helpful to us.
And count me as someone who thinks b&m casino involvement in online poker and immediately taking over (thanks to our lobbyist-sucking political pigs at the trough giving them an inside track) is not only unfair but AWFUL for the players.
Whatever, I've been moving from online to live anyway over time... but I'm lucky enough to have casinos with pokerrooms nearby. Most don't have that luxury.
I dunno what you're arguing here.
I guess the shell game thing would be slightly annoying, and I understand a general hatred for Harrah's et al for doing various things that suck.But this entire thing isn't meant to be a situation where you get exactly what you want. It's meant as an alternative to the current situation that's better for everybody.
The two big things that this bill does are:
1)
Explicitly making internet gambling legal. This means no more sketchy payment processors and sketchy offshore companies. No more being slightly worried that one day you'll get taken to court for playing poker online. And much larger player pools thanks to lots of people who currently think it's illegal learning that it's not.
2)
Regulating This Stuff. So, yes, Stars and FTP may play some sort of shell game to get into the market, but then they'll be licensed and regulated by the US government which will mean lots more transparency than we've had up until now. It also means that we'll have recourse when we feel we've been wronged by the sites or other players or payment processors. THIS IS HUGE.