| Posted by: juiceeQ at April 27, 2007, 5:15 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Gee, stevareno, thanks for bumping a year old thread...<sarcasm>. Here is some more relevent, and up-to-date information for our poker playing friends in Washington State: Online Gambling Legalised in Washington!!!!
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| Posted by: dakota-xx at April 26, 2007, 11:02 pm | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by crancko
Om jeg fatter, hvor du har dit danske fra????
Yanks, Rebs - potatoes, tomatoes.... pffff
Seriously thought you had lost your mind when schmucko was allowed to take office. Turns out someone over there actually had...
Min mand arbejder for et dansk firma.
Jeg har nogle danske enner.
And you should hear this spoken with a ery southern accent lol.
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| Posted by: Mojomax747 at April 25, 2007, 5:32 pm | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
I wonder how much regret the native indian casino owners have now for not turning up or showing any interest last year when the state originally made it illegal. They were loving it back then without having to do a thing about it. This latest turn around by the state has come back to bite them in the ass. I reckon they will crawl out of the woodwork moaning about it now. To little to late, good for wash state for actually showing some balls and some sense even if it was almost a complete turn around from less then a year ago. I hope the flood gates open now and adults can be treated like adults once more.
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| Posted by: crancko at April 25, 2007, 4:43 pm | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Om jeg fatter, hvor du har dit danske fra????
Yanks, Rebs - potatoes, tomatoes.... pffff
Seriously thought you had lost your mind when schmucko was allowed to take office. Turns out someone over there actually had...
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| Posted by: dakota-xx at April 25, 2007, 1:44 pm | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by crancko
Well... Basically the yanks selected those bible-thumpers to their government themselves. I guess the poker players should have asked them about gambling before oting.
We didn't all ote for them. There are powerful lobbyists, groups, companies, etc here. We individuals ote and do the best we can but have a ery small oice and say so in the end.
And only a portion of those who live here are yanks. I for one am a rebel. Don't know why you guys over there can't get that straight lol.
Yanks - north
Rebels - south
vi ses!
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| Posted by: buckster436 at April 25, 2007, 1:08 pm | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by dakota-xx
Nick has a new thread with a link in it - if I have time I will look for it and post it here.
Okay here it is:
Online Gambling Legalised in Washington!!!!
Thanks Daks>>>>>>> buck
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| Posted by: dakota-xx at April 25, 2007, 11:18 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
If you will read Nick's link it seems to state that it is a felony unless conducted in the privacy of your home for personal pleasure.
That would mean what we do is okay - and is actually making a strong statement that it is legal.
Sounds like a good thing to me.
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| Posted by: BearCan at April 25, 2007, 11:13 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
the sites are offshore because it is illegal. if it was legal some sites would be onshore. I don't know how the different continental european countries handle taxing online gambling. I assume they have treaties. I see no reason why the USofA couldn't be a member to them. countries already have treaties for how to exchange tax info about businesses. seems to me adding gambling tax to the list isn't all that hard. gambling information is no different then say profit from a shipping or oil company.
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| Posted by: shinedown.45 at April 25, 2007, 6:33 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
most, if not all poker sites are not based in the US and therein lies the problem, the US government can't collect taxes from these sites, so therefore the US government will make it Illegal, they allow alcohol, tobacco and firearms, provided you have proper documentation which allows you to possess any to all of these but they also collect taxes on sales of these items, but how can the US government collect taxes from online poker sites?, they can't so they will make it illegal.
And this IMO is where the problem lies.
Another thing to add, how many ppl have died playing online poker compared to the thousands who have been killed or died as a result of alcohol, tobacco or firearms.
I'm not a US citizen but these iews should be brought to your governors or senators
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| Posted by: BearCan at April 25, 2007, 5:48 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
and there's the problem. this entire situation is exactly like prohibition. it seems we can't learn from history so it repeats itself. people are going to gamble just like they are going to drink and do drugs. you can't stop us. by making laws to drive it underground we lose the ability to regulate and tax. by regulating we can make laws to help limit stupid ass people from going over there heads. we should be making laws to ensure fairness, grievance recourse, and auditable books. by regulating we can tax, tax and tax again. with the govt looking for ways to tax you'd think they'd be all over online gambling to suck it dry.
we already have a working gambling system established in nevada. i see no reason why other states and the federal's can't use it as a bases to create the framework they would like.
people you need to VOTE, blog, write, email every and anybody. a regulated system as screwed up as it will become is far far better then prohibition. Learn from history.
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| Posted by: stevareno9 at April 25, 2007, 4:09 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
I guess if players were winning and money flowed into country then it could be allright to play as the government could tax it. But when billion go to some Island and people sit at home trying to become a pro and end up broke and beat their wife and kids and do crime to fund their addiction well the go steps in and shuts it down.
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| Posted by: twizzybop at June 21, 2006, 4:52 am | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Washington residents who play poker or make other types of wagers on the Internet will be committing a Class C felony,
This should be interesting especially those who play pogo, uproar and what nots in hopes of winning, points, money et-cetra.
Headline news: Mother of 2 Jailed for 5 years cause she was making wagers on pogo.
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| Posted by: doublenr at May 27, 2006, 9:43 pm | | Topic: Look at this article on online gambling!!! WTF? Forum: Card Chat |
Time for gamblers to fold
At least if you play online poker, which becomes a felony on June 7
By SAM SKOLNIK AND VANESSA HO
P-I REPORTERS
Beginning next month, Washington residents who play poker or make other types of wagers on the Internet will be committing a Class C felony, equivalent under the law to possessing child pornography, threatening the governor or torturing an animal.
Although the head of the state Gambling Commission says it is unlikely that individual online gamblers will be targeted for arrest, the new law carries stiff penalties: as much as five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The new law, which takes effect June 7, passed the Legislature this year without much public attention. But word has begun to spread among gamblers online and in old-fashioned "brick-and-mortar" card rooms, and the players aren't pleased.
"To say playing poker in card rooms is legal but that it's a felony to play online is insane," said Kerry Welsh, 47, of Bell... | | Read Entire Entry |
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