Joined: Mar '11
Location: Germany
Age: 55 (M)
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Posted by chopos180: would love if that is the case because i hate polish people
Unbelievable, your very first post here in the forum is this one ? Blaming all polish people ? What about other countries ? Maybe you would like to play on your own at the tables, lol ? I very much hope that this was your one and only post here. Don´t want to read more of this b******t.
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Actually there is good reason why lots of Brits dislike the polish. First they came here working for cheap, putting lots of people out of work. Second they don't pay tax Third (even tho they dodge tax) they some how are fast tracked in to been given a nice house/flat to go live in and benefits on top, BTW those working pay for all this.(plus much much more, such as free collage tuition, free CSCS cards etc, in fact Iv been on one site were the polish were given answers to a site induction and the rest had to figure it out) Forth they ship money from UK back to Poland. Fifth the segregate themselves And last, if we the tax payer dare to mention the fact that illegal working is going on that government and local authoritys know about, in a time were jobs are scares, people are losing their houses, jobs, sick people being told get a job or get no funding etc etc..if we dare to speak up then we are undoubtedly racist. But the truth is that we dont hate the polish, we hate the fact that "outsiders" get priority over our own and we have to foot the bill...it makes no difference to what country they used to reside, however polish are quite noticeable on building sites so ATM are getting the flack.
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
I think the idea of using a VPN might do the trick eventually, i mean i have a friend that is student in Paris, and he is playing on Pokerstars without having the pokerstars.fr software installed and without any permission from the authorities from france.....
I know in france and italy you need to be registered in order to play poker on real money, and you only need to pay taxes on the money you withdraw from your poker account, which seems right considering the bankroll you have on your poker account is a way with which you make more money, not the ultimate profit.
Well, of course it's a lot better if you don't need to pay anything but as a last resort this could work out too. But it's really odd to his how politicians from different countries have such a bad idea over poker, it's clearly that they don't really know what poker is really about
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Poland
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 182
Posted by B1gfoot: Actually there is good reason why lots of Brits dislike the polish. First they came here......
Sir @B1gfoot - the first time I regret to say I'm really disappointed of your attitude and your above statement. You may of course hate/dislike Poles (...though You are the BRITISH) but your personal feelings should have nothing to do with the point of this thread. Do you really have nothing to contribute, concerning to the subject...? Regrettable, you tried to paint a black picture of Poles, but in fact you depicted yourself... Sir @B1gfoot ...
BTW to clarify: They passed the act in Poland not suddenly i.e. yesterday... - but actually there is nothing to affect. Most of polish poker players didn't even notice that or don't care about it at all. From view point of law - the situation is similar like in many other countries... however, now I'm glad I'm not an U.S. citizen at the moment...
They passed the act (banned online gambling, including poker) but it seems like the kids just want to milk the bull lol...
@B1gfoot - is this our - perhaps it's better to say "their", because it's not 40 mil of people from Poland that are working in UK - so is this their fault, that your goverment doesn't give a crap about it? With that being said what you described happens in EVERY country. But is that a reason to hate? Are you even sure, that those cases are related? I mean if they are then you are right, but are they?
Also you are talking about illegal jobs & taxes - with all due respect and no offence - that's the only stupid thing I've heard from you for the time I've been here. Would've Brits pay taxes when they would have illegal job? And yes, there ARE Brits with illegal jobs, everywhere in the world someone has illegal job. So why aren't you complain about Brits working illegal? Is that different in any way? No, it isn't - they have illegal job and they don't pay taxes (or they have 2nd legal job and they pay, but still they have illegal income). Hate Brits! That would be logical thinking the way you did.
@topic - yes, it's just like downloading movies & other stuff from the internet. It's illegal, but everyone does it and only few are caught, but they have like millions of the illegal CDs
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 12
I'm a British person and I find B1gfoot's comments ridiculous. Yeah we have a lot of Polish immigration. But generally they are honest, hard working people. The real problem with immigration is from outside Europe. From culturally backwards countries like Pakistan and African countries. People who bring their high crime rates with them. And that's where most of our immigration comes from.
I think immigration from civilised European countries is a good thing. And there are a lot of Brits working in EU countries too. My family included.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Lithuania
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 2805
bad news more and more countries do that seems like in future online poker will be banned all over the world hope it never happens and all poker online sites comes and say we want to stay and do the rules who will be also good rules for all goverments and we not needed to stop playing poker online good luck
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
God hate having to quote myself, but as some people only scanned what was written I thought id hi-light this part...
Posted by B1gfoot: But the truth is that we dont hate the polish, we hate the fact that "outsiders" get priority over our own and we have to foot the bill...it makes no difference to what country they used to reside, however polish are quite noticeable on building sites so ATM are getting the flack.
As you can see it is aimed at ALL and yes even Brits who work without paying tax, worse those who claim benefits and work etc etc..I hi-lighted the reasons to whe some dislike foreigners here, and yes I dont blaim them I blaim our government as said in what you guys managed not to read...you all got to hyped over the opening reasons and failed to actually read. @daraspol As you claim I hate the poles, please tell me were I said that? Also you say Im british...Am I? ... "you tried to paint a black picture of Poles" No I did not, I explained why the poles are currently getting the flack. @LooseKiddie 100% correct I blaim our government, Who could blaim someone trying to better their life, IMO Brits doing the illigal thing is worse than "outsiders doing it" as some are forced whilst the Brits have the choice. @PaulieWalnuts you are suggesting that I called Poles Liers/Dishonest and lazy and me a Bigot, LMFAO
Im sure no-one will read it the way it is ment to be heard..ahh well I will be up all night now.
Joined: Dec '07
Location: Finland
Age: 70 (M)
Posts: 329
I think this is just so wrong. Saying online poker is illegal is so pathetic. Propably in poland they are making a pokersite called "POLISH GAMBLING" and so you can only play in there and not in foreighn sites. Pathetic from polish goverment.
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Argentina
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 189
Here in Argentina, a lot of people say something similar, that the government was trying to avoid poker online.... but I guess it's just the media trying to make a notice where is not... But I'm a little afraid about if this is true... I hope it's not...
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
Yeah, same story here was in my country too but unfortunately everything goes really slow so nothing happend so far and we are safe to play
The latest news was that they are now trying to reglement the online poker and offer licenses to all poker platforms, like france did with all poker platforms that wanted licenses....
This would be pretty good actually, i mean i think it would be an extra safety net to all the players that pay online, and basically poker sites need to keep the money of the players in a separate national account that can not block
Joined: Mar '08
Location: Australia
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 1158
i think this is only the start of things to come,america has started it all,and there is going tobe a flow on effect around the world,i think the problem is that most poker sites are run in counties that are a little dodgy and they dont like it.there will be more to come.in australia we have lost 19 billion online already this year.that is alot of money.think the issue is CAN YOU TRUST A COMPUTER.at end of the day the answer is no.
------------ have looked into this and they do have the right to ban it as is the case.so oif you a polish player with money in your account,wellaany significant amount,take most of it out and gamble with what yoiu can throw away.a shame.
as I'm new here I do not won't to get in to argmens to quickly 
