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Online Poker: What to Look for in 2012
After three years of seemingly making political progress toward legitimizing the activity, everything came crashing down on Black Friday, and 2011 went in the books as the year online poker went dark across the United States.
Looking back, it could have been worse. Don't get me wrong, the fallout was brutal. The DOJ indictments forced the major online poker sites out of the country and left many U.S. players without large chunks of money and their main source of income.
When the indictments struck, many people worried that the controversy could also stop cold any possibility of licensing...
Basically this is what you think all these guys are thinking... I don't think a lot of people can predict what the people you stated are going to do next.
01-05-2012 12:14
sloshnaround@sloshnaround --- Politics is a game without complete information (sound like another game a lot of us like to play?). I think the article does a great job of taking into account what has happened in the past to try and project some ideas about the future. There are some common themes that help us predict a politicians next moves. 1.) We know that politicians like to get re-elected. 2.) We know most politicians will look out for the people who helped them get elected, which generally means pleasing constituents. 3.) When a politician decides to end their political career, they can probably do whatever the hell they want, regardless of what constituents think . Add all of this up, as Pokernews did in this article, and you can begin to shape a possible direction for online poker.
01-05-2012 15:16
sloshnaround wrote
Basically this is what you think all these guys are thinking... I don't think a lot of people can predict what the people you stated are going to do next.
Agreed but now I am losing hope that one day poker will be restored as it was before black friday.
01-26-2012 00:18
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