usetheion13
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Silver Level
I work closely with a casino rep and we were recently talking about the big 3 seized sites as well as the recent ones. I was a little confused on why the sites were being shut down and what the DOJ reasons were. I originally thought that the government couldnt regulate the transactions and they wanted taxes and whatnot. He gave me an explanation which I think I should share with everyone. From what I now understand, the big casino corporations (i.e. Harrahs, Bellagio, etc.) weren't getting a piece of the online market. These casinos wanted to get a piece of the market share of online poker, but FT and PS and all these other sites had all the market locked up. If these casinos tried to enter the market with competition like this, there would be no shot.So now the casinos are cutting deals with some of the people in government, and the websites will be shut down to allow these casinos to start out on an even level with all these other websites. Then, once the US casinos have their own software and are up and running, the DOJ will keep these international sites tied up in legalities so the us casino poker software can gain a good market share. When everyone is a couple months without online poker, once the "legal" sites are up (i.e. the big casino companies) everyone will flock to their websites as they are the only ones that are going to be legal online until they allow the international sites back in on the action. Its just a matter of the casinos in the US wanting a cut of the market, because their business is being driven down.