maybe it would be more clear if he had an ayn rand avatar.

Hi Screaming:

I agree that Sessions is not good for Internet poker, but Holder was also bad, and unlike Sessions who hasn’t done anything, Holder did a lot of damage. Also, it seems like there are other issues which are much more important for Sessions to pay attention to than Internet poker.

Mason

Capitalism always seems to have the ability to make a comeback.

If you look at the Great depression of the 1930s, it was far worse in the United States than Europe. I wonder why that was the case.

Also, it's my opinion that the main reason the Obama economy started to do better was the low interest rates which Obama had little to do with.
Mason

You're making an assumption about me which you know nothing about. All I'm addressing is poker over the next few years (at most), nothing else.

Mason

you think Holder was wrong to enforce the laws regarding federal bank fraud? what specifically did he do that you dislike?

i dislike that jeff sessions said under oath he will revisit the doj decision allowing states to license online poker.

The answer is the growth rate of the economy under Obama never did much better than 2 percent. The economic recovery under Reagan, which featured a different set of policies was much higher.

Mason

Mason, you have 10k posts on this forum. People have read most of those posts. Who do you think you're fooling? You're just a democratic midterm majority away from another meltdown and banning more posters.

the uigea, which was republican concocted republican supported legislation, is the reason full tilt poker and pokerstars began committing bank fraud and mislabeling poker transactions as "golf balls" and other fake items. if it were not for the uigea, those sites wouldn't have resorted to committing flagrant bank fraud to the tune of billions of dollars out in the open. your ideal government would let that slide because _________.

the fbi investigation began in 07, so the fbi hands you a slam dunk case of obvious bank fraud for billions of dollars. you would have them sit on it because ______.

No, that's blatantly false. Let's go back to your article you're so proud of:

You don't just want us to think Trump is good for poker. You want us to reconsider what we think about him, disgusting racist piece of **** that he is, because of poker, as if poker could possibly forgive all of his massive flaws, as you appear to have done.

Not happening.

Absolutely amazing. Bill First and a Republican Congress effectively ban online poker, signed into law by Republican President GWB, and he's in here ranting about Eric Holder. Incredible. Garden variety deplorable.

Well let's see. Years ago, mainly because of the poker boom, where we had to hire a couple of employees, I gave them the choice to be either paid more or get health insurance. They all wanted to be paid more.

Also, during the boom years, our employees each got a 5 percent end of year bonus which we were under no obligation to give. In addition, since we were selling more books than we anticipated, we raised our royalty rates. And since you're really nosy, at the end of 2017, we gave one of our authors a one time royalty bonus since the sales of his books (in 2017) were much better than we anticipated and again we were under no obligation to do this.

You don't have to agree with what I write, and these forums are about vigorous debate, but don't make up facts about me when you have no knowledge of what you're talking about.

Mason

Sounds like the Obama Economy wasn't all that bad for your business?

I understand that a lot of people hate Trump. But I was talking about the economy under Trump relative to its affect on poker.

Also, your statement of "i don't blame you for advocating the government pay you millions of dollars with no expectations from you in return" is totally insane. Where did that come from?

MM

Kind of a ****ty choice imo

If an amateur won the one drop against a table of pros there would be another poker boom.

It could happen...right now poker is dying with everyone,especially online,being quite skilled.

I get no salary from 2+2. If the company was to lose money, I would lose money. But salaries and royalties would still get paid.

Mason

so you agree racism = trump and a lot of people hate racism. but you want to specifically talk about institutionalizing and normalizing racism with regard to poker. i see. i think it's bad. 20% of 10% and then of course you factor in 5%. it's bad any way you cut it.

you own a multimillion dollar company that got its taxes cut in half because of a tax law which was trump's only contribution to the obama economy. are you claiming, as the president does, that you're losing money on the new tax scheme?

But there are regulations on our printer where costs get passed back to us. As extreme example, we use something called PUR glue.

We recommended this glue to all our foreign language publishers but our German counterpart told us that due to regulations they could not use it.

On our side, a number of years ago due to regulations having to deal with managed forests, we had to switch to a more expensive paper for our books.

Mason

it's a shame you're not allowed to pass off the cheapest possible product that was probably banned for a reason

I find it amazing as to "facts" being stated about us which are totally inaccurate. The reason we didn't accept affiliate ads during the time period when they were very profitable was that our legal advice was to not to accept them.

Obviously you have no understanding of this. But affiliate ads were considered to be in a grey area from a legal standpoint, and since we were the largest website of its type, it was the opinion of our legal team that an aggressive district attorney would go after us much quicker than he would go after any other website.

By the way, I don't ever remember "ranting" on Obama, when did that happen?

Mason

The most tilting part of this thread is definitely when Mason switches it up and signs off with MM instead of Mason. Learn how to forum?

This is true. But it was Democrats who initiated Black Friday.

But so what. My commentary doesn't address either of these issues.

Mason

Can you address this?

I also remember having private conversations that you don't know about with the top people at PokerStars to make changes in the PPA so that all poker players could support it, and those changes were done.

As for the bad symbol, the PPA immediately agreed that it was bad and eliminated it.

MM

2+2 was in a dominant position to capitalize on the poker boom and completely blew it.

Mason, I'm not really sure how to say this nicely, but your narrative that Democrats have been bad for your business is wholly unsupportable. Your support for Donald Trump makes it close to impossible you aren't a bad person.