You mean someone's gotta protect the money that the sheep willingly gave to the wolves, trusting them to keep their half of the bargain.
It's a general metaphor for naive people who get taken advantage by fraudulent people/companies, often through their own will. It can easily be applied to any situation, wether it's investing in a criminal business, getting scammed by a shady salesman, or buying a fake/harmful product.
I for one trust pokerstars more than the US government. I'd rather have pokerstars setting the rules than the federal government.
Right... I also wouldn't mind having to depend on an unregulated, unaudited, offshore company to protect my rights and freedoms. I haven't made a deposit into any poker site in a few months since the scandal. If I deposit any money anytime soon, it'll be just pocket change, 10$ or maybe 20$ a month. I wouldn't feel safe depositing any type of real
bankroll anymore.
I always knew it was possible the poker sites can easily take our money, but I didn't expect a big company like Absolute Poker to be so Absolutely stupid and careless, or too fast in their greed that they would make it so obvious they were cheating people out of their money in high profile tournaments/cash games, and then hand us the proof to convince us they were.
Other than absolute (where they paid all the people who lost anything because of it plus the fine) where has there been a dishonest poker company?
You really trust their word and think they paid back everyone the losses? All the millions that have been milked over the years from the helpless players, some of which probably quit the site long ago? I highly doubt they went through the trouble of selling off their houses/cars, just to "make things right", or else they would have never been stealing in the first place. It saddens me to see some people think Absolute Poker is an innocent, legit poker company that got hacked by some employees. It saddens me even more that people are still playing on the site.
Absolute Poker has tried repeatedly to deny
ANY possibility of cheating/superaccount using from the beginning, until someone got a hold of the breakthrough evidence and everyone could finally see the concrete proof, basically shoving the evidence in Absolute's face and making them admit they were guilty / there was cheating was going on. Every poker site might not be like Absolute Poker, just like every business in America isn't an Enron, but anytime you have no regulations, no audits from some governmental type authority, there is
always a possibility someone is stealing wether they have been caught yet or not. Why not cheat and steal from the "sheep"? If you can get away with it, and not fear any punishment from any higher authority, why not just take the easy money? As long as you don't do it too fast, arouse any suspicions, or make it Absolute'ly obvious and give people the evidence, you would be just fine and dandy.
The nearest I live to a brick and mortar casino is 1 1/2 hours, which is not a fun drive for me. I just hope we can get some regulated/audited poker sites.