I have to say if the accusations the FBI have made agianst these three sites are true then one would think this is not only a issue that should be delt with by the united states, this should be resolved by the UN as well, and the sites in question should be shut down all together, only because if fradulant actions have occured in the states with these sites what makes you think that it is not happening all over the world pertaining to the allogations.

I personally believe the FBI should share the wealth of information they have pertaining this matter with the United Nations and this matter should be investigated on a global scale.

If these people were bold enough to try and get away with this crap and pulling the wool so to say over intelligence aggencies within the united states it leads me to believe they have no fear nor respect for society as a whole and have been doing what they are doing all over the world.

I feel sorry for all the legit players within the united states that may never get the chance to cash out but I am happy that your intelligence agencies/government are standing up to the scammers of the world who thought they had it in the bag so to say.

think your laptop may be upside down

Best tweet ever from Eric Seidel:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/quadjacksmonday

got pros putting in their .02 here along with other celebs. live audio for 48+ hrs for now.

Err. They don't have to launder money that is legal

+1

That has to be a troll

lol just wow

all publicaly traded companies (the GEs, whatever) launder huge sums of money regularly.
it's absolutely tolerated by the government because they ARE the government. they don't have to file income reports for cash, NL.
I remember during the Clinton administration Janet Reno wrote a letter to the big corporations telling them not to be so obvious about it, you know, tone it down.

the government in Washington is just a front man for global corporate oligarchs. they can launder money, the little guy can't. simple as that.
the article just presents one example out of a plethora of large scale money laundering.

The US was built on illegal finance.
just look at the history of the US.
how were the cities of Boston and New York built?
with what funds?
where did the $ come from to fund Yale, Harvard, all the Ivey league universities.
it's no secret.
profits from running opium from India to China, w/ the assistance of the british military.

I'm not sure what your saying, but it sounds like you are trying to explain away the wachovia thing, when really it's a drop in the bucket.

shutting down online poker isn't about rooting out fraud/ $ laundering; that is everywhere.
it's about total control.

lol

you might want to log in and see his graph, not the one with the big "sample" pasted across it

I am a USA/Italian dual citizen due to my marriage to an Italian woman. I used to live in Las Vegas but now live in Italy. Because of my residence, I have been able to stay on FTP (with a small gap because I failed to change my address with FTP when I moved).
I just finished playing on line, it is almost 11:30 PM here; I observe the following: there seems to be a large Russian presence and some suspicious play by the Russians but overall the games have become much, much easier and I had to loosen my calling standards. Every "loose" call I made turned out to be a winner. My biggest mistake was likely not making more loose calls. Obviously my sample is small and may turn out to be a fluke but so far the games have not turned into the nit or shark fests that I anticipated.

OK. Whatever. Sounds like you're pretty much just Mr Conspiracy. I won't try and reason. You already know what you know.

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Enjoy.

"predominately a game of skill" I dont think the word "predominately" will hold up in court lol.. no matter how much you like to swing it poker is still 50 50 skill and luck, just have to see how my As got cracked by 5s on a final table today.. As much as I love poker and know there is huge amount of skill involved lets not kid ourselves and say its not gambling...

Gioco: suspicious in what sense?

lol.

mike the mouth saying everyones money is safe on pokerstars and full tilt. he says it could take 2 weeks or 6 month to a year. he said he heard from credible sources.

Then, if we wish to be absolutely fair, we must shut down nearly every industry in the country on the same basis, including but not limited to: real estate, stock market, insurance. There is luck (and skill) involved in every industry in the country and there is no imaginary line where you can say that one is gambling and another isn't. You can't even truly determine how much of each industry is luck and how much is skill, despite your deep desire to pull random numbers like "50% luck, 50% skill" directly out of your anus.

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so which one is it? 50/50 or a huge amount of skill?

Matusow speaking fire on the QuadJacks podcast right now.

any cliffs for those of us who can't listen?

Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas?

you aint got ears buddy?

i partially lol'd