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ColeSLaw

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  1. What happened to me in the HORSE was tough. Imagine losing, and losing, and losing, and losing, for over 16 straight hours when you are totally focused and playing the best poker of your life.
    Tilt armor is what you earned. Can't win them all.There is something valuable in losing. Enjoy the pain.I don't know about his skill as a player, but I really like and see relevance in this Andrew Black quote:“Because of the element of chance, you can do everything right and still lose. You get hit by unbelievable body blows, which are dictated by statistical probabilities. I work with this by saying, 'This will happen.'”[On his famous loss at the WSOP] “It was so painful, you have no idea. Afterwards, while I was playing, I was trying to hold the pain without being overwhelmed; to remind myself that what had happened is now the past and I am in the present. Even now, I'll be sitting in meditation turning over the same six or seven hands. That's my practice.”
  2. Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!Huh? Why would this be a joke? You're an ***!
    The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Today?Didn't they learn from the Japanese that Pearl Harbor bombings don't work out well?There is a whole other aspect to this legislation and that is the international trade litigation between Antigua and the US....The WTO case was about U.S. gaming laws and the Wire Wager Act, which prohibits using phone lines for gambling.A federal court in 2000 ruled that Jay Cohen, president of World Sports Exchange, an online gambling operation based in Antigua, violated the act when his company used the Internet and telephones to transmit calls from bettors in New York to his company in Antigua.The conviction, upheld by the 2nd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, was a win for the Justice Department, which maintains that online gambling is illegal, an unregulated temptation for minors and a conduit for money launderers. The U.S., the country accounts for more than half of global consumer spending on Internet gambling.Antigua challenged the law before the WTO in United States — Measures Affecting the Cross-Border Supply of Gambling and Betting Services. According to Antigua and Barbuda, the measures at issue may be inconsistent with the US obligations under the GATS, and in particular Articles II, VI, VIII, XI, XVI and XVII thereof, and the US Schedule of Specific Commitments annexed to the GATS.The decision found: three US federal laws (the Wire Act, the Travel Act and the Illegal Gambling Business Act) and the provisions of four US state laws (those of Louisiana, Massachusetts, South Dakota and Utah) on their face, prohibit one, several or all means of delivery included in mode 1 of GATS (i.e. cross-border supply), contrary to the United States’ specific market access commitments for gambling and betting services for mode 1. Therefore, the United States failed to accord services and service suppliers of Antigua treatment no less favourable than that provided for under the terms, limitations and conditions agreed and specified in the US Schedule, contrary to Article XVI:1 and Article XVI:2 of the GATS (i.e. concerning market access);The United States was not able to invoke successfully the GATS exceptions provisions. In this regard, the United States was not able to demonstrate that the Wire Act, the Travel Act and the Illegal Gambling Business Act are “necessary” under Articles XIV(a) and XIV© of the GATS (i.e. “exceptions” provisions, including for public morals) and are consistent with the requirements of the chapeau of Article XIV of the GATS.However the case was appealed and the on 7 April 2005, the report of the Appellate Body was circulated. The Appellate Body reversed the Panel’s finding that the United States had not shown that the three federal statutes are “necessary to protect public morals or to maintain public order”, within the meaning of Article XIV(a); found that the United States’ measures are justified under Article XIV(a) of the GATS as measures “necessary to protect public morals or to maintain public order”; and upheld, albeit on a narrower ground, the Panel’s finding that the United States had failed to show that these measures satisfy the conditions of the chapeau of Article XIV.BASICALLY, SUCH US LEGISLATION MAY VIOLATE U.S. OBLIGATIONS UNDER GATT AND THE WTO. However, they don't get a hoot and trade sanctions would be a long way off even if a new claim was brought based on this legislation.
  3. Well, the easiest two methods are Tritz's Time Goggles software and Party Poker Blackjack, but we were just discussing the free bonus promotion Party is currently running. If you haven't played in a while, they tempt you back with 20, 30, or 40 dollars that has to be cleared with 200-400 hands I think.Have a seat, let me pour you a beverage and I'll tell you all about it.

  4. Do not have a lot of time right now, but wasting much for that very reason.Someone here mentioned party was handing out crack again so I log on and got my $30 rock and donked it up. Basically ran it up and down to nothing and back, peaked at 200 then lost a bunch and was down to 100, then got it back to $240 and had the inner degenerate gambler's monologue of whether to cash it (had cleared the hands by now).Thought I could TP/MM so decided to keep on playing, ran it down to $60 and felt like a complete ***. Just now on complete tilt, I've got it up to $300. I'm quitting and cashing...maybe *scratch* *scratch*... maybe I'll let it sit there for a bit, and there is always the money tree of party blackjack to consider.Let's hear some party free money stories.

  5. Wouldn't be a trademark, it would be a copyright and you already have that as it is copyrighted at creation.Registration is only useful in case of creation disputes.Licensing and profiting from the term are a different matter. I suggest a website selling shirts and mugs, very easy to do.

  6. they let any johnny cum lately talk shite.. if they made it an exclusive privillege of charter members, I'd be down with that.Man, you are the densest DN applogist I've ever seen, I am getting no benefits as a charter member, as opposed to any other member, though I was promised these benefits when I signed up. That is my point, the total of my point. Chater member ship is a joke, and as you've pointed outdensly and repeatedly , I'm getting the same benefits as any other member. IE there is no difference between me and any otehr member fcp.net, ie charter membership is a joke.
    DAMNIT NOW YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR!THE POLL CLEARLY SHOWS IT IS A JOPKE!
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