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poker in Venezuela has little growth as the government sees it as a game of chance .. and how to play it online because we have no way to play it live .... and can only leave the country people have the resources ... you as a poker community in usa and the world .. how they could help people with limited economic resources to have more opportunity to play outside the country
 
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Unfortunately, the United States is also struggling with online poker in general. As of right now, there are only a couple of states that accept online poker. Moreover, since the events of black Friday, the US has been denied membership in a vast majority of the best poker sites such as: pokerstars, party poker, and Full tilt to name a few.

In regards to the US helping other countries... I'm afraid that we can't interfere with this type of issue given our current situation with poker is not optimal either. All we can do is wait until the government declares poker as a non-gambling activity.
 
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it not fun whan something you like is treated like this.
i live in israel and here on-line poker is also illegal:mad:
 
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it not fun whan something you like is treated like this.
i live in israel and here on-line poker is also illegal:mad:

Really I've seen a lot of players on stars from Israel maybe I'm mistaken.

To OP: look on the bright side atleast you have a chance at online , some countries there's no chance at all.
 
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Really I've seen a lot of players on stars from Israel maybe I'm mistaken.

To OP: look on the bright side atleast you have a chance at online , some countries there's no chance at all.

you are not mistaken, we are not allowed to deposit money to gambling online, credit card is blocked.
 
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some country politics on the "gambling" are awful, senseless and really really stupid
Goverments could make loads of money from it but they dont...I really couldnt understand why...how, ect! I mean, to do not legalize the gambling must be an hidden reason which makes their interest

Dunno how they are so blind to dont understand poker is a skill games either a card game...

Italy is the same, they firstly legalize the online poker closing it in the .it communuty so to "eat" profit with taxes missing the point that they leading it to definitely the death of the game.
Absurd and nonsense rake (80% to them of course) which means hard life to the regs that loose 5bb/100 of rake only, less fishes of course because of the closed market and loads of useless e (potential scammers) PRs and major skins,,,,
ESspana the same, france the same, US limited to some only, ect ect ect


And then, coolest advertisements running on TV are about lotteries ect... win for your life yesssss, win with the same odds a meteorite hitting the hearth .
lol
...dunno wat to think about


EDIT: for live poker is the same (italy). real money games only allowed in 3 casinos which are located in the north of Italy only (1,8k km far from the bottom south). All the cards room declared illegal since the play real money. Cash game avoided (ok, here I may agree in some way) and tournament poker same.
The NLHM is a game at the moment pretty notorious, people wanna play and cards rooms are continuosly shut down and players accused and sometimes charged and fined for it (even if catch playing 5$ games they risk a PENAL process). Unbelievable!!
Luckily I am a UK resident atm. Glad of that. I wiluldnt be neither on this forum instead
 
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some country politics on the "gambling" are awful, senseless and really really stupid
Goverments could make loads of money from it but they dont...I really couldnt understand why...how, ect! I mean, to do not legalize the gambling must be an hidden reason which makes their interest

there is.
the only type of gambling allowed here is through one company called 'pais' and they have a wide range of casino games and scratch cards and the lottery. so making gambling legal here will hurt 'pais' income.
a real monopoly:mad:
 
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If your on the east coast of Venezuela just go play in Aruba. I think there's a shuttle that runs to and from the island. Go to the holiday inn and play a 72 hour session from Fri-Sun. The games are really soft.
I understand that the Venezuelan government is unbelievably bureaucratic so I don't think you'll see change any time soon.
 
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I really feel for you guys that can't play a great game like poker in your own country. Some governments just want to control everything and everybody.

Here in the UK we can pretty much play any one we want which is great but then there is downsides like the weather etc lol. If Poker was banned in the UK I would move to Thailand or mexico instantly - maybe you should think about / try to go traveling for a few months and play in the country of your choice :)
 
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In my country poker nabbed too, but its only on words. In this moment im play without problems
 
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Because the government hasn't figured out the best way to get their cut.......
 
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Why it's forbidden in USA?

i dont know why, many usa players can play on carbon,bovada and some other sites. but i really dont understand why they cant play on pokerstars and full tilt poker. i would like to see a comment in which explains me why they cant play on these sites, but they can in others...
 
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