poker is legal

[BUILDMO]

i play daily in the USA....poker must be legal since i keep winning

is there anyone denied this opportunity?

[dennis]

Poker playing is illegal in many countries since money is involved. Money makes the public addicted. Many people will thing that I am against the games but frankly speaking I am not against the game I am against gambling. If poker is played free then I have no issue at all. Only poker owner make fruits and no one else. They deceive the innocent public. They claim that poker has the power to change anyone’s future. But what we should all know that future cannot be changed with poker playing but it can be change with hard work, loyalty and candor.

[I Eat Gamblers]

Dennis i have to disagree with you!! I believe people should be able to gamble with real money, people chose to play the game. If they play in higher stakes because they watched the WSOP/WPT on tv and think its easy, well they are going to lose money. I allow myself to deposit $50 a wk, i set this money aside for that purpose, i deposit even if i still have money. People are responsible for thier own actions, not the poker sites!!!!!!

[crkdog]

I Agree with Dennis People make the choice to put money online.... The sites do make it eaisier with the added bonus money but again it is by choice that you add cash into the mix....

[I Eat Gamblers]

crkdog.....was that meant to agree with me cuz thats what i just said. People make thier own choices!!!

[bigmac208]

lol im not saying its legal cuz its poker and everything happens in poker and life is life so ya, and i also win so ya!

[BUILDMO]

games are played daily, but usually it is with people's lives
the game i play came by winning a freeroll and making no deposits
i continue to play to someday be better and win more money.
As long as the money keeps growing, the game continues
long shot or not, you can't win if you don't play

[ciderbloke]

Originally Posted by dennis Poker playing is illegal in many countries since money is involved. Money makes the public addicted. Many people will thing that I am against the games but frankly speaking I am not against the game I am against gambling. If poker is played free then I have no issue at all. Only poker owner make fruits and no one else. They deceive the innocent public. They claim that poker has the power to change anyone’s future. But what we should all know that future cannot be changed with poker playing but it can be change with hard work, loyalty and candor.

Uhm.....I'm new around here but for someone that doesn't believe in playing poker for money, isn't setting up an account with a rakeback company rather a strange thing to do? Or have you come here just to save our souls?

[Markie141]

i actually feel i am denied the chance to play at a couple sites i used to like because i am in the US so it's legal but it also isn't really completely legal now is it lol

[litfpitr]

First of all for Dennis..Gambling is just a way for the people who put in the hard work, study and practice to make some money and have a good time doing it...Anything taken to extremes is not a good practice......The government didn't make poker illegal in the U.S. but they did pass laws that made it illegal for credit card companies, banks and other financial institutions to process deposits to gambling sites...

[AnArkhos]

This is an intresting issue since my home country, Finland is currently in a situation where some official parties are talking against online poker, but insted promote a gaming monopoly of a single (mosty slotmachine and videopoker offering) company that is partly owned by the government. It is a danger in my opinion, if a game like poker would be made illegal but the true problem, at least in finnish gambling folks is that the other option is these slotmachines, and THEY are the ones where the company wins a fair amount on every player and only a slight percentage takes winnings home.

Poker on the other hand is about ppl playing other ppl. The house takes a rake and in tournaments, a tournament fee. All the rest is for the 'poker community'.

There are a lot of things that make poker a skill game at least as much as a luck game. Since all of us get the same cards eventually, its more about what do you do with the hand given to you. And that is what makes a player good and winning player if anything.

So blaming poker is not the right way to go, since there is only a slight slice from the pot for the house and players get the rest.

If, then again, a gaming addict that plays all his/her money and is getting into trouble for that can be concidered as problematic cases. In these cases they are about players who should either learn poker better, since they are clearly doing something wrong, or quit altogether.

So all in all: Gambling with slots and video poker is foolish and online poker is a better way to gamble, since u can (and will if u can learn balance ur play to become a winning player.) get a decent income even on low levels.

[PapaGary48]

LOL, well here I go again, I see that Dennis has a veiw point and "most" everyone else has a "different" way of looking at it... I believe that our (USA) government has made it harder for any of us (USA) to play online poker... now saying that, I think we (the people of the USA) should let our government know how we feel and have them change what they are doing or for us to change (them) who is not doing what we are asking.... and as for Dennis and others I'm sure, you are right, there are people who give away a lot of money to the real poker players (I have on once in a while myself), but if you take a step back and look around, so do drug users, drunks (I was one once), and a large group of other people I'm sure, to the things they put before anything else, if you play this game as a recreational game, as some have pointed out, and don't "spend" your life savings on this game, I think "anyone" could play poker or what ever game you want and not be in a fixs for your moneys... and yes, the sites are making a "profit" here, but I'm assuming most of us work at something, with the idea of bring "home" the bacon, lol, making money... by the way, I have never put any money into any web site for poker and yet I have money in most of the web site I'm in or use (thanks for the freerolls), I'm not saying I'm a good player just was sitting in the right seat at the right time... but it's kind of how God runs the world, he has his "angels" doing what he wants them to, and than there's us, and we have free will and can chose our own path, its just that we have to life with our way of thinking, and I'm not try to tell you not to voice your opinion here, it is valuable and worth hearing just as (I hope) mine is, and thank you rakeback for doing all you are doing for "most" of us.... PapaGary

[Vito_Nuccio]

Dictionary.com definition for

Freedom: the right to enjoy all the privileges or special rights of citizenship, membership, etc., in a community or the like

An online poker room is a community of persons who rightfully gather, put money into the pot and play poker with the winners getting the purse. The privileges of playing and winning are by choice. No one forces someone to put up their cash for risk. We have and should have a choice as to play online poker or not.

If you do not want to play, fine, just do not stand in my way because I want to play. We as people can decide what is best for ourselves. Freedom

[Huskers314]

Amen, brother.

[Arielstorm]

I know the feeling, I used to love to play on Titan. Living in the US does have its drawbacks, hopefully soon everything will be lined out and our regular pokerrooms will be available to us again.

[BUILDMO]

I love this game! Poker is Fun!

other loves include golf, bowling, and poker with friends

this all involves a little gambling,
and win, lose or draw - it's all good mon

[martinrobinson]

online poker is legal in many countries but now a days many countries are applying ban in poker as for present example Germany.

But is true that no one wants to see poker illegal.

[Fake McCoy]

The U.S. Constitution provides certain unalienable rights that no court can take away. If you had a right before under the Constitution and no longer have it then this is tyrannical. As soon as the sheeple wake up and realize this, the sooner we will get all of our rights back. Can you imagine what would happen if they took away our right to free speech or to own firearms? Nobody would tolerate it. However when they infringe on our right to enjoy a game that even the founding fathers played we just "hope" they give it back to us. Have you written your representatives today?

[GBOBB44]

i afraid that when the goverment gets involved people are still not going to like it

[BUILDMO]

nothing stopped our home game tonight, so poker is legal!