PokerStars Fires Back at AGA

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A public relations battle between PokerStars and the American Gaming Association has shifted into full gear.

PokerStars has responded to a a legal brief filed by the American Gaming Association that seeks to prevent the global online poker leader from obtaining a gaming license in the state of New Jersey...




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http://pokerfuse.com/news/law-and-regulation/aga-vows-fight-pokerstars-new-jersey-licensing-attempts-05-03/

AGA Vows to Fight PokerStars New Jersey Licensing Attempts
The American Gaming Association (AGA), the United States’ largest lobbying and policy organization representing American casino interests, has filed a brief with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and Division of Gaming Enforcement, seeking to block the purchase of Atlantic City’s Atlantic Club Casino by PokerStars parent entity Rational Group...
 
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I think that pokerstars should have went with Caesars. If it opens up Vegas for them that is a top of money.
 
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Wow! That's some serious hatin'.
 
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PokerStars forever !
AGA into the trash
 
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PS paid back to the US account's well FTP did not have the funds to pay their players back. AGA are just being cry baby's, that they did not get into online poker sooner.
 
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I've told everybody here awhile back not to count your chickens before they have hatched. This was one of my, three reasons. It's not in the big casinos best interests to allow this to happen. Their going to fight it with everything they got. My other two reasons was, all the wives of husbands, that lost their whole paychecks, and the religious organizations that are trying to stop gambling. So you're not just fighting the big casinos. You're also fighting about, I'd venture to guess between 15% to 30% voters.
 
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So they broke some laws that were unclear. The DOJ shut them down, they signed an agreement, then the DOJ said that poker actually was legal but up to the states. Now pokerstars is trying to get into NJ.

I don't see a problem at all. Maybe they used some shady companies as payment processors that were basically laundering money, but they can't be held responsible for what other companies do.

This is all about the casinos trying to keep stars out. They'll want to have 20% rake too, just wait.
 
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PokerStars Attorneys Attack Legitimacy of AGA Claims in New Jersey Counter-Brief

http://pokerfuse.com/news/law-and-regulation/pokerstars-attorneys-attack-legitimacy-aga-claims-new-jersey-brief-11-03/
The filing claims the AGA has no standing to disturb the pending purchase of Atlantic City’s Atlantic Club Casino by PokerStars.
Attorneys representing PokerStars parent Rational Group have filed a brief in New Jersey with the Division of Gaming Enforcement opposing a previous petition filed by the American Gaming Association (AGA).

Last week, the AGA sought to alert New Jersey gaming officials to reasons why Rational and PokerStars might be unfit to receive New Jersey approval to own and operate the recently purchased Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City.

Rational Group had previously issued a statement to the media prior to its legal filing. In their formal response, A. Jeff Ifrah and David B. Deitch, on behalf of Rational Group US Holdings Inc., ask the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to deny the petition filed last week by the AGA and avoid “empower[ing] the AGA’s thinly veiled anti-competitive campaign against the entry of a competitor into the market.”

Rational asserts that the AGA has no legal standing from which to file its position and mount its attack on PokerStars, and attempts to pound home the argument that the AGA’s earlier brief is nothing but a market-protecting, anti-competitive tactic. Wrote Ifrah and Deitch, “The AGA fails to identify any limiting principle that would distinguish its effort to participate from any gaming entity’s attempt to block the licensing of a competitor.”

Noting that the AGA’s “sole interest… is economic warfare,” Ifrah and Deitch contend that permitting the AGA brief to be included in the Rational/Stars approval process would “set a precedent inviting competitors to intervene in every licensing proceeding, thereby permanently multiplying the proceedings and delaying the disposition of those matters indefinitely into the future.”

The following passage essentially sums up the Ifrah/Deitch response:

For all of its lofty rhetoric, the only interest the AGA actually has in this proceeding derives from the fact that some of its members perceive themselves to be Rational’s competitors. At bottom, the AGA’s brief constitutes an attempt by these competitors to exclude Rational from the U.S. market. That interest cannot be sufficient to support participation. Allowing the AGA’s participation here would therefore set a precedent in favor of transforming every licensing hearing into a platform for incumbents to make accusations of wrongdoing – including false ones – against aspiring licensees.

The AGA’s move to file its petition of protest against Rational and PokerStars, and to file what Ifrah and Deitch describe as “voluminous filings many hundreds of pages in length and measuring approximately three inches in height” represented, according to the AGA itself, the first time the group had sought to intervene in any regulatory licensing process.

According to Ifrah and DeitchIt, it also represented the first time that any private entity had attempted to insert itself into the approval process of a looming competitor. “Our research discloses no case in which an entity has been allowed to participate in a pending licensure hearing before the Commission based upon the type of abstract 'concerns’ on which the AGA bases its petition.”

The brief goes on to describe the AGA filing as a “perversion of the 'participation’ process which is utterly without precedent.”

The battle over the possible reentry of PokerStars into the US poker market now seems centered on New Jersey, regardless of whether the AGA brief is accepted or denied. Simply by providing the “voluminous filings” to New Jersey authorities, the AGA has attempted to place as many evidentiary hurdles as possible into PokerStars’ path.
 
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anytime theres money to be made ...the vultures (and lawyers) will gather...

casinos cant compete with online gaming....

maybe one day gambling will be legal everywhere....and all the leeches will be out of a job..

- people won't have to resort to 50% rake lottery scratch offs or quik draw for excitement.....
 
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I really hope they come back soon! I might actually make a deposit if stars came back! Theres no Action like it on any of the available sites now:(
 
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After such response from PokerStars to AGA's petition, I don't see how AGA's petition could be taken into consideration when deciding on allowing/denying PokerStars (Rational US) to buy Atlantic City’s Atlantic Club Casino.
 
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AGA in the bag with existing casinos and indian casinos, what a surprise...
 
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anytime theres money to be made ...the vultures (and lawyers) will gather...

casinos cant compete with online gaming....

maybe one day gambling will be legal everywhere....and all the leeches will be out of a job..

- people won't have to resort to 50% rake lottery scratch offs or quik draw for excitement.....

i cannot wait!! .. its time for the leeches to take a walk...and for the day that gambling is legal everywhere.. i miss playin on pokerstars bigtime lol
 
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all this drama but still no real results makes me sad
 
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