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Hurricane
United States3939 Posts
Then we wake up one day and the FBI has seized all accounts with the three top corporations in the US and all of us have no idea what the fuck just happened. EDIT: gotunks summed it up pretty concisely. I just felt the need to elaborate. I'm confident most poker players would agree as well that we felt ps/ftp was as safe or safer than most banks. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On April 16 2011 14:20 ShadowDrgn wrote: Plus it can be a pain to constantly deposit/withdraw, especially in the US. You're limited to one withdrawal per day and you can't withdraw until 48 hours after your last deposit so you wouldn't really be able hop your funds around at all unless you only played one or two days of the week (at least for Pokerstars, I'd assume policies are uniform or at least vastly similar). | ||
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BabeSlayer
United States13 Posts
On April 16 2011 03:56 where wrote: oh what the fuck is this. The government is that desperate for money that they are trying to steal from online gambling sites? What about those mortgage backed securities, CDOs and those other institutionalized gambling forms? Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, AIG too difficult of targets? Do we really need an online gaming lobby? "How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs Is Wachovia "too profitable to fail"? Or is it because the drug cartels have organized weaponry and might fight back, unlike online poker players? ....Wachovia did fail..... | ||
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Stroggoz
New Zealand79 Posts
On April 16 2011 14:14 PJA wrote: He's not saying play high stakes without the proper bankroll. He's saying have the majority of your bankroll in a bank, and have, say, 5 buyins on FTP. Note: don't shoot the messenger kthx. Just clarifying on what I thought ought to be his obvious implication, rather than your assumption that he meant don't play with a legit bankroll. if you want to make any kind of money in poker you need to play with 40+ buy ins at midstakes, and even more at high stakes. | ||
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raph
United States204 Posts
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BG1
Canada1550 Posts
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Earll
Norway847 Posts
On April 16 2011 14:59 Stroggoz wrote: if you want to make any kind of money in poker you need to play with 40+ buy ins at midstakes, and even more at high stakes. I think you should re-read what the guy above you said, you can have 40+ buyins at midstakes, and have 5 buyins at the site, and 35 in the bank, and have your money be "safe" that being said. Anyone who says you should not have your money on pokerstars\fulltilt because of corruption\scamming\ the risk of them some how hijacking your money obviously have absolutely no clue at all what they are talking about and should be treated in a simmilar manner to someone who are deliberately trolling (e.g ignored.) There are lots of reasons not to constantly be withdrawing/depositing. There can often be small fees\backdraws to withdrawing/depositing(hitting your rakeback etc or messing with bonuses also.) So if you have to withdraw everytime you go above 5 buyins that could easily be a problem. Secondly Most people play 5+ tables. Alot play 10+ tables, some people even play 24 tables. Good luck doing that with 5 buyins. Last but not least, for a lot of players tilt can be a huge problem, and I can easily imagine it being more tilting to lose all of your online roll in a day and having to re deposit, than losing 10% of it and just seeing a minor flucutation, even though you know the money is in the bank the psychological aspect is still present. The only reason to not have all your roll on an online poker site is because you could have the money invested elsewhere\have it making interest in a bank or whatever. But that wont amount to much unless you are playing at the realrealhigh stakes anyway (where I know most players do not have all of their bankroll online) Pretty sure the money of the american players will get back to them somehow. If it were to not get back to them though, it would be 10000000000000% the fault of the FBI/US government, not pstars\ftp. | ||
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TheLink
Australia2725 Posts
It's also cool to see all these reassurances from PokerStars. Dunno whether they're genuine or just good public relations but its a damn good way of showing online gambling as legitimate and professional and not shady underground KGB associations ala Rounders. | ||
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GummyZerg
United States277 Posts
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Earll
Norway847 Posts
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mburke05
United States130 Posts
you at TL should take this very seriously, poker sites/players are a large source of money, and if you expect things like TSL to keep happening, think again in the wake of this. | ||
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Consolidate
United States829 Posts
I can't say I feel much sympathy for the people who might lose their money. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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mburke05
United States130 Posts
On April 16 2011 15:42 Consolidate wrote: This is very entertaining. I can't say I feel much sympathy for the people who might lose their money. You sound intelligent | ||
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Consolidate
United States829 Posts
You sound facetious. Poker for money, as with all gambling, contributes nothing to society(not that that matters really) and is a waste of young people's competative talents. The law was there for all to see -pokerstars thought the law was unenforceable, apparently they were wrong. You took a risk not many financially responsible people would. | ||
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johanes
Czech Republic2227 Posts
On April 16 2011 15:49 Consolidate wrote: You sound facetious. Poker for money, as with all gambling, contributes nothing to society(not that that matters really) and is a waste of young people's competative talents. The law was there for all to see -pokerstars thought the law was unenforceable, apparently they were wrong. You took a risk not many financially responsible people would. According to you flawed logic, starcraft is "a waste of young people's competative talents" because it "contributes nothing to society" (or as much as poker i believe) . What are you doing on this site again? | ||
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benjammin
United States2728 Posts
On April 16 2011 15:49 Consolidate wrote: You sound facetious. Poker for money, as with all gambling, contributes nothing to society(not that that matters really) and is a waste of young people's competative talents. The law was there for all to see -pokerstars thought the law was unenforceable, apparently they were wrong. You took a risk not many financially responsible people would. as long as you pay taxes you contribute to society, it's kind of pointless to judge any one profession over another in terms of its contributions to society | ||
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alexcasto
United States5 Posts
On April 16 2011 15:49 Consolidate wrote: You sound facetious. Poker for money, as with all gambling, contributes nothing to society(not that that matters really) and is a waste of young people's competative talents. The law was there for all to see -pokerstars thought the law was unenforceable, apparently they were wrong. You took a risk not many financially responsible people would. You sound like an unsympathetic fagt. Gaming, web-surfing, hanging out with friends, and having fun in general contributes nothing to society. But I bet you still do all of it. fagt. The law wasn't there for all to see, it wasn't enforced immediately, and might still be unenforceable now in court, apparently you just assume it's enforceable. Thanks Mr. Harvard law. People always take risks. Financially responsible people take risks too. Just more socially acceptable ones (buying a home, shares). Except this wasn't trading on some no name site run underground by the KGB, fagt. So summary: This may have cost alot of good, normal people something beyond what you can fathom because, generally speaking, you're a fagt. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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CheeC[h]
United States137 Posts
On April 16 2011 15:49 Consolidate wrote: You sound facetious. Poker for money, as with all gambling, contributes nothing to society(not that that matters really) and is a waste of young people's competative talents. The law was there for all to see -pokerstars thought the law was unenforceable, apparently they were wrong. You took a risk not many financially responsible people would. jesus.. | ||
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iSTime
1579 Posts
On April 16 2011 15:56 benjammin wrote: as long as you pay taxes you contribute to society, it's kind of pointless to judge any one profession over another in terms of its contributions to society What? Even ignoring opinions about poker, it's evident to anyone with half a brain that some professions contribute more to society than others. | ||
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Sloptart
United States6 Posts
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