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Originally Posted by wowsooooted
Even if it comes back it won't be the same, we can only play vs aus players.. the traffic will be so low its hardly worth playing and no more russian donks
Nobody is talking about segregated markets. The politicians at the committee specifically spoke about the global market and we all explained to them why the segregated markets don't work and they agreed. You can read the transcripts of the senate hearing somewhere we were basically live-posting during it in this thread 20 odd pages back
We pushed the UK model hard during the senate hearings etc and that was all that was being spoken about by all senators from all of the political parties etc
THERE HAS BEEN NO TALK OF SEGREGATED MARKETS IF LEGISLATION PASSES IT WILL BE A GLOBAL MARKET YOU CAN PLAY RUSSIAN FISH ON STARS ETC IF WE SUCCEED
I can't make it any clearer than that, unless something changes we are not talking segregated markets. Yes, it is possible that could change but at this point we have had no indication from any parties that segregated markets would be considered and we even explicitly explained why they were less successful than the UK model with a global market during the Senate hearings and nobody offered an alternative viewpoint
One of my friends is at a Queensland LNP communications policy meeting this week and he is going to table a letter to Fifield (the minister who can make this happen) about the Queensland lnp's position advocating for legal online poker which has already passed their committee and they will be asking Fifield to consider legislating online poker ASAP. When that is done, I believe the time will have come for us to start writing to Fifield in support of that position. Our goal is to get this passed before the election and it is possible if we all put the work in when the time comes.
edit: I just spoke with Joey. He is still active in leading our cause within the LNP and as head of the AOPA and he said he will try and post an update tomorrow for everyone.
Last edited by SwoopAE; 09-12-2018 at 09:19 AM.