Sent a pm to senator leyonhjelm thanking him for trying. He responded with the below msg. This isn't over.

We might put up an inquiry into online poker. It would need a lot of noise from the poker community though. Do you think that's possible?

I let him know it's very possible and there will be even more angry online rec players when stars pulls out and that I'd speak with joey and get in touch with his office. Senator fifield said in his speech whether online poker is legal or not is a separate debate let's make some noise and get that debate going, senator leyonhjelm will be there to fight for us.

Yea me

Any idea what the legal consequences are as a player if i get caught playing on one of the "shady" sites that still accept aussie players?

It won't be illegal to play online poker, it's just against the law to offer it to Australians.

Like china or russia...

pathetic conservative scum, violating our freedoms as usual, when they pretend they support small government and civil liberties.

based david

Man this sucks, as if tournament fields weren't dwindling enough, I don't even live in oz, I feel for u guys like someone said earlier they stopping u have a game of cards on the internet, absoluty pathetic! I was following this thread with interest as was thinking of spending a year there in a few months looks like be New Zealand instead!props to joey and swoop for all the hard work and effort, keep on fighting

What a ****ing jet <3

I'm in. Thanks for your work, and Joey too. Let us know what you need from us (and sorry it's taken something like this for a lot of us to pull our finger out on the issue).

Afaik not illegal to play just illegal for operators.

It'll be a long fight to get it legal again but we have a principled senator who will fight for us which is a good starting place. Will chat with joey and we can figure out how best to support the senators efforts and move forward. We're going to probably lose stars unless we misinterpreted the effects of the legislation in the meanwhile though.

Sorry for side tracking but for those who have played on ACR, what are good values game on there. I've just checked it out today but there doesn't seem to be any sort of speed game.

GG joey & co. Thanks for all the efforts...

Could someone make a list of sites aussies will still be able to play on? Titan or ipoker for example have not allowed new Australian sign ups for a year or so, but allowed current aussie players to keep playing, i wonder if that will change.

First opportunity to make some noise
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...YR629wYGM&_rdr

Interview on 2GB 873 at 7:40pm Sydney time

Can i listen online at all? NVM

http://www.2gb.com/listen-live/

Really well spoken Joey, good job mate.

yup well done!

just quickly, was the host meant to have such a negative angle on poker in order to allow you to prove why it's a skill game? also thank you for mentioning we're not pro-blackjack

good work joey you"ve done such a great job, if you guys kept the radio stream going for a little longer, there was a guy talking about stocks on their, and he mentioned gambling and the stock market in the same breath and basically the luck skill discussion because, then the guy that was pro the stock market basically explained sample size and bankroll management, but with stockmarket terms, so bankroll management = a portfolio and sample size was a bigger example, i just wish the host made the correlation between the two. to be fair i dont know anything about the stock market so if i could gather that from there short 2 minute conversation, it would be good if the host could eventually join the dots and help out the online poker community

Should I be looking to get all my money out ASAP ?

commend senator leyonhjelm for making an effort but don't know why he tried to lump online poker with online blackjack

Yes very well spoken in the interview Joey.

Condolences to all of you who put in the effort to have your voices heard; sorry you didn't get the result we all wanted for you.

Any updates timeline-wise yet? Anyone received any emails from Stars etc?

They're considering the amendments (Xenophon's banning of credits) in House of Reps tomorrow, nothing from Stars/Party but I haven't played on Stars in months and Party in years. Days rather than weeks would be my guess

fml. Thanks for doing your best guys

I don't know much about this but are VPN's a realistic option? And does anyone know if there's a thread where players discuss the best VPN services for poker players?