when poker becomes legal in the sense of no issues with legality at least in the US

How long until you can enter a screenname+password+SS# and get money from a cashier at a major poker casino and get some cash in the pokerroom?


Its already being done in Macau with Pokerstars so there certainly is precedent for it in the world of gambling, and Macau is king.

Be able play MUST PLAY satty's to live events from online. play an online satty and through the poker room's affiliation with a poker room, its ready to go when you're there because they've already has you bought in. and they can run 24/7 because its online.

it would be so great for everyone in my opinion mostly people a relatively short distance from a casino who would certanly be willing to play online satty's to get in but may not drive just to play a 1/10 or 1/5 satellite with a decent chance of having to drive right back home.


It could be used for all poker tournaments held at big poker casinos. if they dont fill, they wont be played. its not like the powers at be can lose.


So basically how long until you walk into the Pokerstars Room at (insert casino), go to a automated machine, put in your Password, SS#, Username and take out X amount of dollars, print your (insert buyin) daily tourney ticket and walk to your seat. after winning a 22R- Turbo on pstars to the (insert casino) (insert buyin) an hour ago?

I haven't been very clear, I apologize. Blame my dealer.

It would be nice if it were to happen but i would not hold my breath, Just do not see this any time soon if at all.

Well it hasnt happened in the UK so i wouldnt expect it to happen in the US in those terms.

Maybe if your talking Harrahs online and the Rio or other Harrahs properties, but no way a live casino would work with an online site like Stars or FTP like you suggest.

To suggest the main question, if you can tell me when poker is fully legalised in the US i can give you a good guestimate on when such a scenario as you suggest might be possible. In other words - horse, cart, wrong order.

Dusk Till Dawn.

i think if poker becomes legal it is a big possibility. But it would be the other way around imo. Harrah's or the other big live casino's would create their own online sites.

When online poker does become legal in the US, though not in mine or your lifetime, brick and mortar casinos will all have their own sites. And yes, they will all be rigged.

Exactly. If it weren't for the recent tax hikes for poker in the UK I wouldn't have been too surprised if PokerStars opened a room here. Unlikely to happen now.

i know right, FML

You can do this in Ireland.

How about that one in Macau? I thought PokerStars owned it or something.

you work for Stars?

No

Full Tilt have a backend affiliate/cashier system that most clubs in the London area use.

That's what I'd expect to see. If poker is legalized in the states it will probably get very interesting. I'd expect the big name casinos to enter the ring. I'd also expect to see facebook real money poker and yahoo games real money poker. Just wait for Google and Apple to get involved. One of those will make the slickest interface ever and rule poker world.

They might have to provide some sort of acceptable customer service if they put a face behind their enterprises.

stars rumoured to be interested in buying DTD...

I think the International in London is somehow sponsored by Gutshot, and you can do something like this, but I am not sure of the details.

Also the Western/Full Tilt and Equal Chance have something similar but I really don’t know the details.

Actually it kind of happened in the UK.

AT the Gutshot in London you were able to deposit for the online site, and withdraw from your online account. Not sure if you can still do that in the new incarnation "the international".

You are aware that FB, Yahoo, Google, and Apple will most likely not, in any way, do something of this sort, right?

You realize they're in the business of making money, right? Facebook already has a ton of users playing their free poker app. If they start hearing how much some of these sites are making they'd be fools not to add cash play.

FWIW it wouldn't be as simple as integrating real money. There'd be a lot of paperwork and various other things to worry about that wouldn't make it worth FBs time. Plus, people play it because it's free. Doubt you'd be getting hoards playing for real money. Either way, FB would be the closest to make it happen simply because they have some form of poker.

But I'd be almost certain they wouldn't, and much more certain the other companies wouldn't. Hate to break it to you, but internet pokers for real moniez is a niche market and will remain so.

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lol at "they're in the business of making money". With this rationale wouldn't yahoo and google be heavily involved in the porn industry, since you know, there's a great profit margin and lots of money to be made in porn?

What tax hikes?

yeah its not like they get paid by porn companys to be at the top/sponsored links if someone uses their search engine, they probably rake as much as pokerstars on that alone LOL

gambling tax paid by the casinos in the uk has gone up, which is why they are trying to force poker rooms out of business so they can get the players into their casinos, GALA being the most aggressive from what i've heard