To poker pros: what will you do if internet poker dries up ?

[Ralle]

Wow, in that case it's amazing that online poker has become so big in the US. Let's hope they legalize it (duh...) for an even bigger player base.

[Shoe]

Poker might be in trouble if the following statement ever becomes true:

It doesn't matter if you program the 9th best bot in the world, if the other 8 best bots play at the same table(s) as you.

[OrangeHeat]

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wagering over the internet is illegal by federal law in the US.

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No. The wire act does not explicitly ban wagering over the internet. Over the phone - yes.

Orange

[moondogg]

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wagering over the internet is illegal by federal law in the US.

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No. The wire act does not explicitly ban wagering over the internet. Over the phone - yes.

Orange

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Cubswin (of course) referred to some caselaw here last week that said that the wire act applied specically to sports betting instead of wagers in general, and that pretty much all electronic communication is covered, not just phone line (e.g. at the time the law was designed to cover telegraph as well as phone).

Also, I remember hearing somewhere that it did not apply to international wagers because the wording required that both the source and the destination of the wager had to be a US state (so that the legality of the wager in both places could be determined according to state law). Not sure if that argument would actually hold water though.

[ActionBob]

Can I assume this is the same meowhead I must have spend hundreds of hours with way back when in the early days of Paradise Poker?

-ActionBob

[URMeowed]

How many frickin' poker playing cats do you think there are? =^._.^=

Meow.