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12-26-2005, 04:28 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
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[ QUOTE ] Online poker is a victimless crime, like prostitution or strangling homeless people. [/ QUOTE ] But what about little Johnny? The 15 year old kid that stole Dad's credit card and ran up $1,000's in debt. Isn't he a victim? [/ QUOTE ] Only if his father beats him to death. Otherwise he's a criminal. 
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12-26-2005, 04:35 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Online poker is a victimless crime, like prostitution or strangling homeless people. [/ QUOTE ] But what about little Johnny? The 15 year old kid that stole Dad's credit card and ran up $1,000's in debt. Isn't he a victim? [/ QUOTE ] Only if his father beats him to death. Otherwise he's a criminal. [/ QUOTE ] Gold! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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12-26-2005, 04:45 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
It is in Nevada... which is why it makes perfect sense that I'm moving there.
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12-26-2005, 05:19 PM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
Utah is the only state that I know of that has a solid anti-Internet gambling law on the books.
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12-27-2005, 02:16 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
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Michigan does too... and for some reason I want to say that I read that it's illegal in Illinios also. [/ QUOTE ] I read its illegal in the US....
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12-27-2005, 04:54 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
It's probably not illegal in the US - we don't actually know as the government has not actually tried to prosecute anybody but most legal experts do not believe such an attempt would succeed.
However, several states (I know for a fact these include Nevada and Michigan) have pased their own laws making internet gambling illegal.
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12-27-2005, 08:52 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
one book had a federal circuit court case that showed that "poker" was not "sports betting" and therefore not illegal. It was in the Frye brothers online poker book.
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12-27-2005, 08:50 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
yes, in Illinois, darn "progressive" "can't mind your own business" "we care" "perfectionistic" politicians.
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12-27-2005, 09:54 AM
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Re: Hello! Isn\'t it illegal to play poker on the ...internet
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that the law is nothing more than a prediction of how courts will decide a given case.
I would go one step further and add that it is also a function of prosecutorial interest. In this sense, online poker is illegal in the same sense that adultery is illegal. Hello!
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