The subject of gambling online has been a contentious one at best. Gambling has been around for hundreds of years. You may not agree with it, in fact many people are fanatical about the problems with gambling. The US shutdown online wagering with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. Of course this was a fine example of double standards. You can still enter the office Superbowl square. You can lose your inheritance by buying stocks that crash, you can buy houses that 6 month later are not worth the paper you signed, but you cannot play Poker online for a dime!
It was with some eagerness that the Bush government pushed through legislation prohibiting online gambling. Of course, one would assume that if it is banned online, it would be banned offline, or more simply put, in real life. Clearly that has not happened, Las Vegas and Atlantic City continue unabated. Not to mention the ‘First Nation’ (thats the politically correct term, I think), without gambling and booze they would have little or no revenue.
The ‘online’ punters did not stop either, it became slightly more complex, you could not use your Visa, Amex, or Mastercard. Even PayPal looked like a poor choice. Unfortunately the players were forced to seek less secure methods of moving cash around.
I am not a poker player, or any other gambling endeavor, but this press release caught my eye. All I can say is, if you can’t afford the loss, don’t place the bet.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIF the BANKS really REALLY don’t want this law—it will BE REPEALED.
Please don’t forget who runs this country–the MONEY folks!
I play poker online and still do to this day this law only stopped banks from processing payments to and from gambling sites but it is so hard to control this that the banks are not doing anything to stop it so i still use my debit card and when i win i get a check and take it to the bank and cash it so this bill did absolutely nothing.
I thought the law was stupid at the time and still think so. I’m not a poker player or online gambler though I have been known to play the office pools from time to time.
I think the real reason is that once the morality police figured out there wasn’t a way to easily account for the monies involved and tax them, they thought taking away easy access was the way to go. Like most things, the folks who want to continue on will find ways around the problems.
Money rules everything and I suspect that in the near future this nonsense along with a ton of other stuff will be repealed no matter which party controls things.
Kevin R. Tipple
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Hi guys,
you guys can try that cashgil website out, they pay pretty good and not much questions asked when cashing out commissions. They only problem is that you need a paypal account with it, some countries might not have paypal.
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