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Adelson can be forgiven by reason of his age for the ignorance of his declaration. I am 54 and have forced myself to understand, use, and appreciate social networking, online gaming, and other virtual tools of modern life. I have many good friends who remain clueless (& weirdly proud of it ...) so Adelson who is significantly older can be forgiven for clutching to his buggywhip and signing invoices with "Prosperity will return with the horse" (this is a metaphor) despite being a successful and capable business leader. The reality is that online gaming and online poker is already here, with the U.S. an early leader, now falling behind worldwide due to the U.S. DOJ's imposed Online Poker Prohibition and the embarrassing result of almost a thousand U.S. citizens forced to leave the U.S. to their legal employment.

What about the handicap, the people with a permanent illness, people who dont feel confortable around a lot of people? these people like to play poker too, they just can't make it to the nearest casino which might be in another state.

"AGCC Launches Independent Review of Full Tilt Poker Debacle" ... what a joke. When you investigate yourself, it is not independent. The Alderney Gaming Control Commission operated as a rubber-stamp license factory more interested in raking in "licensing fees" than actually fulfilling its mandate: actually exercising control over the viability of the playing sites.

Luckily, REAL regulation from serious organizations such as the governments of France, Britain, & hopefully the US (in 2014 if US citizens are lucky ...) will put the boot to gaming license factories offshore that do nothing but sound good to players when in fact they did little in the online scandals so far.

As for the convenient "closed door sessions" where fees were discussed and compromises not in the best interest of the players reached ... idiotic. To the AGCC ... transparency is a closed door & actually doing work for fees received is a foreign concept.