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Old 09-14-2005, 08:37 PM
Quicksilvre Quicksilvre is offline
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Default Re: Poker is illegal in the US

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So poker is illegal.

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That is the opinion of the US Government, not hard fact. The basis for their opinion is the Wire Act of 1965, which has at-best tedious ties to online poker. (After all, it was passed before the bloddy thing was even created.)

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Do you think one day we'll face any criminal charges?

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No. The Justice Department has made it quite clear that it was not going to prosecute individual players.
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