Quote: (10-02-2016 02:48 PM)Lagavulin Wrote:
Quote: (10-02-2016 12:04 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote:
I've never really liked the idea of online poker - the human, face-to-face interaction of a live game is too important to the game's dynamic to be left out.
The same principles apply online, it's just different. I prefer playing live but online was great before everybody got clued up on how to play.
Quote: (10-02-2016 12:11 PM)DVY Wrote:
Poker is basically dying. Been dying for a long time. Most of the best have taken their chips and moved on to other things.
Those still in the game supplement w/other hustles.
Big one is sports-betting like fantasy (DFS) or betting sports exchanges, working as a runner for big groups, selling action on their local book accounts. Stuff like that....
The US government killed online poker as we remember it when they made it illegal to play online. In one fell swoop they removed the big money and the easy money from the game, that's why most people have moved on.
There is still a poker scene but it's not what it was, the foundation is no longer there. Should the US government ever rescind that retarded decision it would breathe new life into the scene.
It's crazy how it can be legal to purchase firearms in a country but illegal to play poker online there. For the guys that live in the US what's your thoughts on this?
Dude, it is NOT illegal to play poker online for money. It IS illegal to move money from your bank account to a gambling site. or from the site to your bank account.
For the poker sites, it is illegal to take a rake in a poker game, but it is not illegal to provide poker to public players.
And I agree that online gambling should be banned. I have seen dozens of people's lives ruined by gambling. Being able to do it online just makes it that much easier.
Once you have seen a wife beg and cry for her husband to leave the poker room and come home and feed the children, and the husband tells security to throw her out of the casino because he does not know her, you understand how much more destructive gambling is than any gun. Repeat that scene 5 or 6 times and you realize that gambling needs to be made less legal.