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Land of freedom... What a joke! Land of freedom for people that government thinks should be free! DISCRIMINATION!!! Poker players are discriminated here! People that smoke are discriminated in almost whole world. In new laws you cant smoke almost nowhere!... In USA you can gamble in only few states. Why? Because Las Vegas is owned by few people and they dont want concurrence! That is true! Its all about money! But in that same USA people can carry gun with no problem! We see more and more countries allow fags to get married and adopt children, you can see killing in whole world for politics and OIL... but no, from now on we cant see people playing game that is SPORT and that can be watched on Eurosport, ESPN and other sport channels!
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United States
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Here! Here! I am with you! .... Lately all of the big online site have formed partnerships with land based American casinos ... wonder what will happen to those relationships ... or was that part of the plan as they knew this was coming?????
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Posted by jovicakralj: Land of freedom... What a joke! Land of freedom for people that government thinks should be free! DISCRIMINATION!!! Poker players are discriminated here! People that smoke are discriminated in almost whole world. In new laws you cant smoke almost nowhere!... In USA you can gamble in only few states. Why? Because Las Vegas is owned by few people and they dont want concurrence! That is true! Its all about money! But in that same USA people can carry gun with no problem! We see more and more countries allow fags to get married and adopt children, you can see killing in whole world for politics and OIL... but no, from now on we cant see people playing game that is SPORT and that can be watched on Eurosport, ESPN and other sport channels!
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Posted by jovicakralj: Land of freedom... We see more and more countries allow fags to get married and adopt children,
lmao
yea about the post i always laugh when i see americans going on about land of the free, one of the richest countrys in the world where if your sick and have no money your screwed and alsorts of b******t laws but i have to say its some good propoganda that land of the free stuff alot of people believe it
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I'm with you jovica! So sick of this BS in the U.S. And free to do what? That's right whatever they say we can do. I want to play poker, smoke when I want and I work since I was 16 to pay taxes to this bunch of crooked hypocrits. Wish I could move out and get a job in the UK and I'm not kidding. So sick of the s**t! Good Luck to All of you!
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fair enough lol go light a spliff there greeny getting stressed but yea it must piss you off and other countrys tbh that put alot of hassle for poker players alot of places you have to pay crazy tax on your winnings, the UK is far from perfect but one thing its good for poker players
Edited by Flippedchips (16 April 2011 @ 01:09 GMT)
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Don't be fooedl by the grandiose claims our country hasnt been free since they introduced the federal reserve in 1914. And got even less free when they stopped backing our FIAT currency in like 1944. Our country is teetering on economic collapse and the only people that will survive are the ones who willfully take the governments hand outs.
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pokerstars just did a little news flash to tell everyone who is not american to not worry things will go on as normal but there web site has been changed to pokerstars.eu instead of .com but seems all americans are fecked dont see any at my tables either
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Posted by Flippedchips: pokerstars just did a little news flash to tell everyone who is not american to not worry things will go on as normal but there web site has been changed to pokerstars.eu instead of .com but seems all americans are fecked dont see any at my tables either
Yeah americans CANNOT join tables they get a msg like what happened to french etc "Sorry due to government regulations you cannot join a real money table" something like that. Basically, they were able to finish any MTT etc they were in, but couldn't not sit at or register in anything new..
FYI: $$GTD MTT probably very EV+ today until they adjust all the figures...
------------ Be interested to see what the smaller rooms that are still open to the USA market do..
Merge network ?? (Players Only anyone..)
My advice to anyone on BRM who has funds in Players Only - or any other merge network room, if you're from the USA - withdraw your funds at least until the dust settles. These rooms are gonna be shifting in to panic mode.
PS/FTP will fight the USA government because they can afford too, the smaller rooms will f**k over their USA players base in a heartbeat to avoid any prosecution.
Edited by jessthehuman (16 April 2011 @ 04:18 GMT)
