The Finnish poker players are among the world's best, such as Future
Patrik Antonius, Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies, Juha Helppi etc. But they might experience some difficulty playing online poker within their own country in the future. The Finnish politicians are preparing a new gaming legislation.
According to an interview with Jouni Laiho, the working committee
is ready to take more drastic ste[...] Read more » Finnish poker ban perhaps soon a reality
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 6714
And i think the netherlands are next in linefor the chop It seams the govenments dont like the fact they dont get a slice of the pie. They want to put a stop to the whole of the internet, they want us to be robots and all be good little boys and girls, soon they will push to far and will have a fight on thier hands, all govenment partys are corrupt, the greedy fat pigs make me sick. In what way does it help to push it underground, the world is run by clowns.
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Germany
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 2025
i told you french revolution !!
serious this is something that will concerns us all i think. it just began....or do i just look at the black side ? otherwise the gambling and sportbetting community is big and im quite sure those gambling companys are involved in politic (money! - just my opinion), so it wont be that easy for the gouverments i hope.
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 6714
Think your right ,I do belive most of europe will be ok, and think the US will be back again soon, and yes those who have lots of money get a big say in pollatics some of the big money players fund wars and supply wepons (sometimes to bothe sides, go figure) Lets hope socity is not too lazy to act....
Joined: Apr '08
Location: Finland
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 1613
If this law goes thru i find it very strange why they have so extremly few LIVE poker tables in Finland ... only in the captol Helsinki what i know about , this ban absolutely means no more poker for me
Damn, what's the f*** Finland is a big country of poker. As mentioned, some big poker superstars comes from Finland so I think they have no right to do that to our Finnish friends
Joined: Dec '07
Location: Denmark
Age: 41 (M)
Posts: 2644
We got a serious problem here. It's more or less illegal in Denmark too, seems like countries who allow online poker are dropping like flies. It will allways be possible to find a country where it's allowed but the games get harder and harder to beat when they filter off all the fish
Joined: May '08
Location: Canada
Age: 46 (M)
Posts: 1
Instead of spending millions implementing laws and findings ways to ban online poker they should make it legal and get a piece of the pie. Why not have a strict control over the gaming methods to eliminate cheating making it secure for everyone . They won't be able to stop anyway's , they should join in on the action . It would bring them alot of money that they could invest in school's and health care . If they havent thought about that , then they're all a bunch of idiot's !!!
))) no one doomdy 
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