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10-06-2006, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by RacingDog

...Hey look, I'm sure you guys and gals in the US have seen the level of support expressed here from those of us who live elsewhere. Well it's about time we said that directly rather than leave it as just an implication. You will always have our full support, and if there is anything we can do to help, just ask and it will be done (if it's legal of course).

I'm pretty sure the rest of the non-US community here won't mind me having the presumption to say that.

Thanks for the support racingdog...and everyone else. I'm not happy that sites are stopping US support, but I don't begrudge them the need to do what they freel is best for their operation. It doesn't make any sense to me, though, to shut out any players until it's necessary. But, in reality, when would it be necessary for the poker sites to shut out players? Seems to me that the responsibility is thrown towards US financial institutions. With that being the case, why do the sites worry about policing US accounts? They should keep us and keep making their money off of us.

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10-06-2006, 04:11 AM

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Just a quick word. If you hadn't noticed, the sites that are shutting down for US players are mostly publicly traded companies. The reason why they would have to do so, my guess, would be that those who own shares.. or who are partial owners of the company could get in trouble if they are located in the US... As you may have noticed.. many of the publicly traded company's shares have dropped tremendously.. i think one of them was like 58%.. because ppl were frantically selling off their shares.. with this action.. they can put their shareholders to ease.. that's my guess anyways.. correct me if i am wrong..

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07-14-2007, 07:53 PM

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i know that full contact poker sold their site to poker stars I think it was because of this law.But i am not sure it might of just been time to sell. um speaking of this new law what can we do to det it changed?

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