I suppose I am a "nice guy" but I am very boring. Not like you. You are so awesome. You have a picture of Clint Eastwood as your avatar and you are a travelling ****ing ninja!

Hopefully the government will just end up taxing Pokerstars and giving them a certificate of exemption. Alternatively if Singapore pool sets up an online poker room.. that would kick serious ass.

Edit: Lol.

"The bill aims to create an exemption regime, where Singapore-based organisations can apply to be exempted from these restrictions. They have to meet certain criteria - such as being a non-profit, contribute to charitable purposes, and have a good track record of complying with local laws."

Bye bye Pokerstars and hello Singapore Pools.

Brilliant

Youve kind of missed my point. The sentence of 15-years is a maximum penalty. Noone has posted any data about just how often someone actually gets sentenced to 15 years. In fact i'm almost entirely certain that its never happened before. So we have harsh maximum penalties but in practice our judges sentence primarily at the lower end of the spectrum. You probably wont grasp how the law works here because its just different how it works here. Alot of people seem to have this perception that half the people in Singapore are in jail or broke from all these insane fines. A little bit of local perspective is definitely required when discussing legal systems. The point of the the thread was discussion of the banning of online poker and stiff penalties and the ever-growing national monopoly gambling company that is already huge. Doesnt that sound like a more interesting thing to talk about to sensible people ?

qf funny

this guy won it for me

hmmmm,
wouldnt be surprise if singapore pools open an online poker site,

problem is alot of singapore banks are handling poker sites payment !
LOL !

do you really judge people by their avatars? if so, then lol at you.
grow up and fix your life buddy, you appear to be angry and jelly.

Calm down dude. I wasn't being rude, wasn't judging and you I wasn't angry. I was making a joke. Your avatar is fine. I was trying to be funny ffs.

Update:

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/sin...l-not-affect-g

nope

the travelling ninja joke was a+

your 'im a real man who travels on airplanes and goes places and has knives and **** but you are just a boy who makes jokes on the internet" bit is pretty lame tho

grow up

singapore sucks dude. bunch of communists

Pokerstars no longer offer real money game in SINGAPORE

farewell pokerstars

is it still possible for singaporeans to play using VPN?

solid facepalm

Never give up hope

Heh, didn't see this reply.

Exactly what are your beloved dictators deterring with their ban on online poker?

Oh, and I've spent quite a lot of time working in Singapore ~10 years ago. Nice people on the whole, but a little lacking in initiative imo.

I wish we had more of your country's laws over here[the Netherlands] because having a high maximum sentence is a good thing just in case, and i think that the smaller crimes having only low jail time/fine, makes it easier and more probable that the person evolves into bigger crimes.
Like for instance one person steals a bicycle and is likely never to do it again, so you can give him a low punishment, but there are persons you can say from that they will with high possibility do it again and/or evolve into car theft for instance, so it is in my mind very good to have a possibility to punish/jail this person for a long[er] time to possibly prevent that, because here in the Netherlands the punishments are pathetic for many of crimes, for instance you can't be locked up for more then a max of 6 years for killing somebody with your car even if you where drunk and driving 200km. and you only have to serve 2/3 of that time, and to my knowledge that 6 years has never been given, sometimes the get even community time, for causing the death of a child while drunk because intent couldn't be proven, and i make no joke, you can find it on the internet.

And for your dilemma, have you already looked into the possibility of cashing out your winnings can be done safe if you play on foreign sites and win?
and is it worth while for you to take the risk, how much do you win on average a year?. and is it already known what the punishments are for breaking that law?.

Play money games are still legal right? On ftp, ps and zynga eg

Yes still legal, but don't quite get the point of it though.

At least we had the chance to see this coming late last year. Just pissed that I am near to clearing my Ultimate Challenge Bonus but there will be no partial payment for that...


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you must hate users posting in traveling threads right?
look, the user above me said "Probably the safest city I've ever been to" and i was putting my "cool knife story" in direct response to his comment - maybe i should have used a tongue in cheek smiley and a specific quote for you. no brag or anything, get real.