Poker Forum

Mr. Campbell's partisan and devisive comments do nothing to further the cause of poker. His comments are hardly insightful, offering instead, only blame, malice, and inuendo. With this kind of rhetoric, it's understandable conservatives would be turned off to matters affecting poker. I hope the poker lobby has more positive representatives than this man working for them.

"The South has risen again and it's now filled with Bible-belt, right-wing nuts itchin' for a fight and ogling over Queen Sarah (Palin) as their Saviour."

Strange that the only administrations that he has worked for were led by Southerners (Carter and Clinton). Oh, I guess since they were Democrats (notice I didn't say adulterous left-wing socialists) it makes them not "really" representative of the South. Being from the South and a poker player, I take offense to some of his stereo typical comments.

Those of you who keep trumpeting internet poker, keep beating a dead horse (internet poker). If/When the government ever gets involved with the internet, all that will happen is taxes, regulation, law enforcement, more government jobs. Just another way for government to rob people. The poker coummunity over rates their importance. Taxing internet sales will be more important than regulating internet poker. The only hope internet poker has in the US is, being written in a internet control bill (tax) to generate government jobs regulating the internet.

MtMike makes a very good point that I hadn't considered from an actual player perspective. If it was legalized, the ultimate cost would increase dramatically with all the increased regulations. The cost would ultimately be passed on to the end user, the players.

The only way to cover these additional costs would be fewer freerolls, higher rakes, or fewer bonuses. I could handle anything except the higher rakes since I am mainly a cash game player.

The flip side though if it is legalized and all of the sudden the number of players increases significantly, this could create expenses that are higher, but on a per player basis could remain relatively equal. In addition, it would spur more competition, which is always good for the final player.

I need to think on this some more, but maybe now I, as a player (not as the libertarian that I am), am against making it legal!