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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 07:08 AM Original message |
Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI |
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CanonRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. How about the banksters now, FBI? |
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koffeekup (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. Should be outlawed |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 08:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I agree completely. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 06:42 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Go Nanny State! Go! |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Yeah... I think the diaphanous definition Nanny State has devolved |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I don't play so I don't care enough to like or dislike |
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mythology (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 08:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Except dice rolling is entirely random. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. these online sites are not random |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 08:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. There is a big difference from what you describe. |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 09:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Bull. I've happened these games for years and there's nothing wrong with it. |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Then you know nothing about poker |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. The feds want to tax it. Way to go Obama. You suck. |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. What does this have to do with Obama? |
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Ex Lurker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Barney Frank promised to repeal that law once the Democrats took over Congress |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 07:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Except that they did nothing actually wrong. |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Assuming that by "they", you mean the businesses, I disagree. |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 08:12 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. What is this stuff they were pulling exactly? |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 11:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Here's the DOJ press release. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 06:52 AM Response to Reply #6 |
18. ODS Fail... |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:24 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. vehn ya think yer gettin shtiffed, and ya got the ODS,.. vaht? ...and then i said, san fransiskie? |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. Online card games and gambling in general should not be illegal. |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:08 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. They shouldn't be taxed. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. why not? |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 07:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
30. Because they are internationally based. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. I agree |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. Wow! Amazing how the gambling apologists are out in full force tonight! |
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AlabamaLibrul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Don't tell anyone.... |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 12:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Poker is often a game of skill, not gambling |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Cutpurse? How is that analogy remotely fitting? |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. Here is the message from Full Tilt when one logs in. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
19. Good. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
23. Gambling is a disgusting industry that take's advantage of people's ignorance of probability. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:43 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. These sites interfere with state lotteries, that's what's behind this IMHO |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Sigh... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
24. I love FBI designed websites (obvious saracasm) |
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