John_3_16
Legend
Silver Level
Ohio here. Money drives these decisions and passing a comprehensive gambling bill that includes both poker and sports wagering will look far more lucrative than poker alone.
Hope Ohio does not drag their feet like they did with casinos. Dead last in that category. You have to be one of the first.
GL and God bless.
Trillian
Legend
Bronze Level
This is good news for Americans. Does that mean, you will have access to international sites soon, too? What does that mean for us foreigners? Don't take it as offense, please, but I heard so often that in the wake of Black Friday the competition got tougher, because so many "customers" (aka fish aka recreationals) from US where cut off. Does that mean Americans are more fishy?
Infinity Objective
Legend
Silver Level
It likely means there existing casinos, pari-mutual operations (race tracks), possibly state run lottery will be the very first to be allowed to move forward and bet. Websites abroad that do business in-state maybe never, maybe last.
Fish are fish, your German Twait Shad are better than US Largemouth Bass, we both have winners and losers. The rest of you sarcastic bullsh!t goes in the garbage monster.
I'll see ya around knowing how you really feel about the US, and my degenerate loser peeps.
C
ChuckNola
Rock Star
Silver Level
This is great news for U.S online poker players. Unlike sports betting online poker used to be legal nationwide. Now with sports betting being legal they have no argument to keep us from playing online. No disrespect to ACR but I can't wait until I can get a piece of the pokerstars action again.
Shady Slim
Legend
Silver Level
I wonder what online poker will look like when that day arrives. There is the possibility that money could flow out of the US, so I would imagine the Federal Government will have to assure that doesn't happen.
Cam54
Rock Star
Silver Level
This is a very positive development ... although I'm not going to hold my breath, and feel that for most states in the union this may be a step forward at some point in time ... I too would like to reconnect with Pokerstars... I don't know though the way things are in this country right now, and especially in this state .... I mean here, we have some of the most backward laws on the books, and everything here is a sin which in Missouri is worse than a crime ...
Which illustrates another issue ... there is no federal mandate for most anything so what is in one state isn't in the next and so forth and so on. All things fall back onto the states rights unless the fed DOESN'T want you doing something, then they are all over it.
Here they will cut off their nose to spite their face.... they do not seem to want any of the financial benefits that other states are seeing they would rather hide their head in the sand as things collapse around themselves ...
I don't think their fears have anything to do with any of it, although that is what they claim, ( think of the children !!!! ... the destruction of the family unit .... and Gods will ) ...more likely the bribes have to be put in place and how the government will steal your money before you are allowed to kind of think for yourself...After all we have brick and mortar casinos, which will surely ruin your soul same as playing poker online lol.... Still I will wait with hope, and see what happens ...
Which illustrates another issue ... there is no federal mandate for most anything so what is in one state isn't in the next and so forth and so on. All things fall back onto the states rights unless the fed DOESN'T want you doing something, then they are all over it.
Here they will cut off their nose to spite their face.... they do not seem to want any of the financial benefits that other states are seeing they would rather hide their head in the sand as things collapse around themselves ...
I don't think their fears have anything to do with any of it, although that is what they claim, ( think of the children !!!! ... the destruction of the family unit .... and Gods will ) ...more likely the bribes have to be put in place and how the government will steal your money before you are allowed to kind of think for yourself...After all we have brick and mortar casinos, which will surely ruin your soul same as playing poker online lol.... Still I will wait with hope, and see what happens ...
playinggameswithu
Legend
Silver Level
I only play poker and don't consider myself a "gambler". Finally we get some more freedom to do as we wish with our lives. The black market is going to take a huge hit after the individual states set up their betting businesses.
Shady Slim
Legend
Silver Level
I know I have said this to you before, but worth saying again. In Washington State it is legal to smoke marijuana recreationally. Poker is a felony to play, even with play chips. How backward is that?
You mentioned each State has their own rules, the Feds don't have any. The problem we have right now is that there are not enough numbers within one State to the next. What is needed is to stage a huge one-day event of protest. We could either march on our individual State Capitols, or better yet, march across a bridge and stand in another State and tell them we are moving! Another option is to bribe a politician with 2.35% of our rake if that will get the job done.
Kingpoetmusic
Rock Star
Silver Level
This is good to see maybe a next step for poker as well. I like betting baseball so this is a big win.
I'd like to see US players to be able to play on certain sites like Pokerstars. There is good traffic on that site, I'd love to be able to get on Stars again.
Hopefully this is the first step in legalizing poker.
I'd like to see US players to be able to play on certain sites like Pokerstars. There is good traffic on that site, I'd love to be able to get on Stars again.
Hopefully this is the first step in legalizing poker.
Shady Slim
Legend
Silver Level
Cam54
Rock Star
Silver Level
I know I have said this to you before, but worth saying again. In Washington State it is legal to smoke marijuana recreationally. Poker is a felony to play, even with play chips. How backward is that?
You mentioned each State has their own rules, the Feds don't have any. The problem we have right now is that there are not enough numbers within one State to the next. What is needed is to stage a huge one-day event of protest. We could either march on our individual State Capitols, or better yet, march across a bridge and stand in another State and tell them we are moving! Another option is to bribe a politician with 2.35% of our rake if that will get the job done.
I do remember you saying that ... and I agree 150 % That's incredibly backward .. But my statement wasn't just meant to encompass the legality of online poker...it was more a generalized picture of how I see most of what goes on here.... There are some really scary things here that are either still legal or not illegal...
As backward as the example you described is, and I have never lived in Washington State, but I feel they and a lot of other places ( most of the USA are more advanced in many other ways ) and I feel the climate here will prevent anything good from happening. I think at least, most of the other places that do silly backward things like that have hope for change. Change and progress just isn't the nature of this state.
I do also like your idea of protest in one form or another and would join for the sake of others, and believe in other states it would make a difference. I really don't feel anything makes a difference here like that, and somebody may get shot ... some churchgoers here still burn bars to the ground here lol, and that is not a joke.
Shady Slim
Legend
Silver Level
Burning bars!
I used to go to Missouri at least once a week. There was a store that offered 15% off the groceries total every Thursday, and I would drive my mom up to do her shopping. One day we drove in a newly purchased car, no license plate. It is legal to drive without a plate in Arkansas, but Missouri has there own rules -- man you would have thought we were on the FBIs top ten wanted list when we got pulled over.
