04-15-2011, 02:43 PM
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#21
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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I feel very good about pulling everything from PS but $2...
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04-15-2011, 02:43 PM
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#22
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary
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The FBI is the chip leader and raises you after you raise in position with pocket kings. What do you do?
a. Call
b. Re-raise
c. grab your ankles and take it (Fold)
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04-15-2011, 02:43 PM
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#23
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary
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I just logged in using the Pokerstars app and it works fine. I tried to cash out my $37 and it says I need to cash out a minimum of $50. lol
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04-15-2011, 02:44 PM
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#24
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2006
Location: @HOOT250
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US taxpayer money well spent.
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Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
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04-15-2011, 02:46 PM
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#25
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary
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So this is how they are going to get some extra revenue to help balance the budget!
Having much too much fun making jokes.
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04-15-2011, 02:46 PM
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#26
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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WTF is a Hault?
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The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Boblobla For This Useful Post:
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04-15-2011, 02:50 PM
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#27
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Boblobla
WTF is a Hault?
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Can't spell and don't know how to change a thread title 
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04-15-2011, 02:51 PM
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#28
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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The indictment filed by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, charges Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars, and Bitar, the founder of Full Tilt Poker, as well as nine other individuals, accusing them of operating illegal gambling businesses. Federal prosecutors also filed a civil lawsuit seeking $3 billion in civil money laundering penalties, alleging the online poker companies disguised money they received from U.S. poker players as payments to online merchants selling jewelry and golf balls.
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http://blogs.forbes.com/nathanvardi/...nies-indicted/
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04-15-2011, 02:53 PM
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#29
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tangs4President40
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Edit the first post, go to advanced.
I doubt this will kill the industry. It will mostly be a question of which smaller gambling site has the capability of taking on the people looking for a new poker site.
But it makes me wonder what will happen to all of the poker tv shows sponsored by these guys.
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04-15-2011, 02:54 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Moscow, ID
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Canadians, I don't think, are directly affected.
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04-15-2011, 02:54 PM
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#31
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#1 Goaltender
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I've been looking around the net trying to see what this means for us and it seems like we may still be able to play but americans wont. People are already saying this might reduce the WSOP online feed by 50%
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04-15-2011, 02:54 PM
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#32
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Norm!
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Its not like the government was shutting these sites down on some kind of morality clause.
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04-15-2011, 02:57 PM
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#33
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Gambling; if the government isn't screwing you, it's illegal.
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04-15-2011, 02:58 PM
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#34
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First Line Centre
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Chances are the FBI just seized the .com domain names, kinda like how they did with some torrent/online streaming sites. The sites are probably still running if you can find a domain name that isn't US based.
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04-15-2011, 02:58 PM
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#35
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#1 Goaltender
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The rough thing for us if we can still play is the cash flow into the site from the US will be missed as there were a lot of american fish there
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04-15-2011, 02:59 PM
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#36
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Franchise Player
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Shutting down a domain is effectively like removing the street address sign for the company. Sure a lot of people won't make it to the site, but for now, its certainly still there.
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04-15-2011, 03:02 PM
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#37
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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This is such slimy business. A lot of the pressure to clamp down on online gambling is being driven by American Indians and Harrah's et al. I would venture a guess that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was a driving force behind the legislation...
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04-15-2011, 03:04 PM
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#38
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Calgary
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well i just cashed everything out of pokerstars just in case. wonder how many millions (billions?) of dollars are being cashed out today, this will really hurt them, shut down forever or not. Just need one of the 2nd rate poker sites to step up and they can clean up.
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04-15-2011, 03:07 PM
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#39
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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People in the States can get in, and apparently it's a matter of DNS updates at ISP's, or so I've heard.
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04-15-2011, 03:09 PM
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#40
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First Line Centre
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I smell a business venture for CPers. Who wants to start an online poker site? Dibs President!
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