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Originally Posted by MichaelScarn
Too all those of you saying about the shady history of the WSOP, that was then, this is now. Banning these people wouldn't have anything to do with a bizarre "Religious" campaign. It would have to do with common sense.
Do you really think poker can ever be taken seriously as a sport by politicians and the like, while blatant fraudsters, crooks and confidence tricksters are in the poker spotlight? The answer is no. We need to shun people like Duke from this beautiful game of ours, or else we will always be considered degens by the public majority, and lose more and more of our rights to play online poker, and possibly even live poker in the near future. Our game is fragile enough without criminals bogging it down.
Exactly.
To others:
Men the master should be banned. He is a known cheater and has done so tons of times at live tourneys. Gtfo.
Dwan/galfond/etc had no knowledge of what was going on at FTP. They did not compromise the integrity of the game.
You guys are trying to compare elephants to peaches and are missing the point.
Although if it is found out that they had intimate knowledge of what was going on, they should be banned.
Maybe Dutch should be banned as well, he has scammed poker players over in the past while connected to a company and lied on its behalf. Could be argued that he has compromised the integrity of the game as well.
This is why we need a well thought out way to ban players who have used poker as a platform to screw players over and thus compromised the integrity of the game (I.e; people with intimate knowledge at ub/FTP, cheaters, etc...).
I'm not saying that all bans should be for life or whatever. It should be a case by case basis and deliberated over diligently before a decision is made.