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Yeah. I'm thrilled about a royal flush in a play money game. So much so that I just ejaculated all over myself.

Take up playing Razz immediately. A gaping hole in anyones poker psychology is the need to feel "rewarded" by making huge hands. Obviously, you do since you made this post.THis leads to automated, uncreative, nit play. Anyone would be more impressed by a post that said "Look at this huge pot I stole with garbage because I just knew that Player A was trying to steal, Player B was trying to counteract player A and my table image combined with my knowledge of Players A and B would allow me to gank the pot in spite of the flop" than they are by "Look. I made a Royal."The psychological need some pe

The order of magnitude that separates crimes isn't proportional- even between Felonies and Misdemeanors. You are framing it in such a way that they are (which just isn't the case). This is Criminology 101 stuff. Basically, all victimless crimes- be they felony or misdemeanor- hover somewhere around the very bottom of importance; crimes that are 'malum prohibitum' in nature- wrong only because they've been made illegal.Playing poker, building a new shed on your property without a permit, etc. Slightly above them in the order of magnitude would be "quality of life" crimes like drugs, prostitutio

Hahahahahahahahaha.... What (cop educated) bullshit. I just did the math for my town. ( (X) number of law enforcement officers per citizen, (Y) numbers of citizens, (Z) is what each Law Enforcement Officer is paid- (Z) represents (A%) of of our property tax formula)If we were to fully double figure (Z) by requiring highly educated Law Enforcement officers (Ala Germany, Great Britain, France, etc...), it would represent LESS THAN A 1% INCREASE of (A). Even in small towns where civil staffing expenditures represent a significant portion of the budget, we're still talking less than 5% increase i

Said it before, will say it again.Poker players are insanely lax with personal security, given the sort of figures they push around on a daily basis. I think they may have forgotten what those sums of money represent to "real people", some of whom own firearms and wouldn't hesitate to use them for the sake of relieving one of ones bread. The fact that most of the money may be stuffed in a box at the Bellag doesn't mean anything, since not everyone knows that. They just know that "Big Name Pro" just won a seven figure tourney or plays on High Stakes Poker with six figures in front of him and th

Holy crap. That works great.Thanks.

I may have made an error here. If I have, I stand up to it and apologize.Are we both talking about H.R. 4411 "Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act" ?(as an aside, Federal Judges can't be fired. They are lifetime appointments. US Attorneys are another matter)

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snooptodd- It really boils down to much of this being test case territory. If people are willing to risk being "the tested", then they can safely adhere to the interpretation you posted above.The language of the statute that address "anyone" and "the proceeds" very much makes this a law that has absolute potential to reach further than financial institutions.I am of the opinion that, based on the Wire Act and it's most recent modifications. they have footing to really screw poker sites if they choose. Paid employees of online poker sites could very easily (and conceivably) be targeted to "make

Nope. Have been subjected to the inquisitions of "bored cops" before, though. Actually, no. The "alternative" takes a bit more thought than that. Our choice isn't between an absurd number of laws and retarded cops to enforce them, or no cops at all.The "alternative" is undoing the streams and streams of these idiotic laws that have absolutely no purpose other than to restrict personal choice. The "alternative" involves not empowering the worst instincts of those who seek power (cops) by allowing them to pester and arrest different groups of people who aren't hurting anyone or any thing.Further

Nope. Still isn't. Good. Provide me with case numbers and I'll look them up. Uh, golly.... Maybe because funding for investigations and prosecutions of unlawful Internet gambling only started two months ago with the passage of the bill? It has nothing to do if they "think they can win". It has everything to do with their hands being effectively tied up until the passage of this bill. It takes more than 3 months to build a case.Like I said before, and I'll say it again.Over/Under on prosecutions in 2 years, I'll take the under and put my money where my mouth is.

Actually, that isn't accurate.There isn't anything about sports betting that is more "clearly illegal" compared to poker. Federal control over wagering is done via the Wire Act of 1961 (due to its nexus with interstate commence).The first title in the abstract of HR 4411 (109) is "Modernization of the Wire Act of 1961".HR4411 Title 1 Section 101 "defines "bets and wagers" to include bets for contests, sporting events, games predominantly subject to chance, and lotteries."Now, you and I know that poker is a game of skill and there is some limited precedence in the courts that hold as much, howe

I can't. It's a personal thing to be. BTDT (for non-poker stuff)As an aside, I can say with complete confidence that Atlanta has some of the hottest home poker action of any major city. $1K, $5K and $10K buys are a regular thing- cash games with the fishiest fish stacked low-five figures deep... The closest competitor is NYC and Austin, but Atlanta is right there with them.

No. They don't. Regulatory agencies (or local police acting in that capacity) are the ugliest form of law enforcement out there. They spend more time creating criminals or "catching" people breaking stupid infractions that no one cares about than they do actually getting bad guys.But to answer your original question- they absolutely don't have anything better to do.We've spent the past 30 years overfunding the **** out of federal and local law enforcement agencies to prove that we're "tough on crime". We populate our police departments with dreadfully under-qualified community college graduate

The first "paid spokesman" poker player to be in-processed by a US Marshal and dunked in the holding tank until the bond hearing will probably come around to a similar line of thinking awfully fast (God, I hope it's Hellmuth. Please let it be Hellmuth. I bet you will see tears in his mugshot)There is no question in my mind that a US Attorney/AUSA somewhere will eventually go after a poker site for violating that remarkably dumb law and they very well may snag a "high profile employee" to make their intentions known. IIRC, there aren't too many sites still taking deposits from US banks (FTP bei

I am totally convinced that a huge portion of the "poker community" upper-echelons are populated by social nitwits with emotionally retarded personalities that haven't expanded or grown past the early years of high school.There is no doubt that being a great poker player requires certain "disconnects" in the mind; trickery, lying, deceit and the ability to pathologically disregard the well-being of other people aren't built-in traits everyone has as a matter of default- but from a purely sociological perspective, it never ceases to amaze me how sophomoric and juvenile these idiotic "he said" p

Agree 1 billion percent. Best article ever written on that game. Addresses the textures of teh game that are so much more important than just the straight "math".Never ceases to amaze me how many people completely forsake "the platinum rule" at 7 or 8 man tables.

WTF? How does voteforrory.com "ruin" anything?I (and about a bajillion other people) happen to think it's an absolutely brilliant idea that does nothing other than reward the "working man" who toils in this life without reward.

I think that being a good father/son/husband/friend are all traits of being a "good person" more than a prerequisite for being a "good man". Queers can be "good people" too. I do believe, though, that being a man has certain standards. People who are unable to muster said standards usually cite other character components as a surrogate in order to keep from having to face their own failings.I think Heinlein summed it up best."A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bo