Legislation

brianmc

Should poker players and casinos gather together and push for legislation now rather than waiting to see what Michael McDowell comes up with?

bohsman

No.

brianmc

bohsman wrote:

No.

Why?

BigDragon

brianmc wrote:

Why?

See IPPA discussion in antesup board.

brianmc

BigDragon wrote:

See IPPA discussion in antesup board.

Thanks BigD.

You go on holidays for a handful of days...

Whatever happened to the days where I had one bookmark for this poker stuff?

Dub13

brianmc wrote:

Whatever happened to the days where I had one bookmark for this poker stuff?

Poker is the new Black.

hotspur

With respect to casino legislation there is no logic to poker players allying themsleves with the casino lobby.
Either the government does nothing (has 27o) and so the hand of poker players is in good shape casino playingwise.
Or the government regulates the industry due to the influence of the casino lobby compared to which poker players' influence would be irrelevant and superfluous (the govenment has A10 but doesn't want to take on the massive chip leader Dermot Desmond).
Or the government goes on tilt and closes down the casinos, a fact which the poker players could do nothing about if the casino lobby couldn't prevent it.

Now with the 1st two options the poker players are happy cause they get to keep playing poker in casinos although the outcome had nothing to do with them whatsoever. But in the 3rd scenario poker players sink with the casinos because they unwisely threw their support needlessly behind them (basically bluffing into a dead pot). However since the legality of tournament poker outside of casinos is an issue and tournies are being shut down then the poker players should be *distancing* themselves from the casino gambling environment and influence as a lobbying group, with the aim of promoting the good clean noncasino-gambling friendly card tournaments around the place which act as a buffer to playing poker for cash in nasty illegal casinos!

So to the extent that the casino regulation issue is yet undecided any poker players' group would be well advised to stay well out of the casino regulation debate if they have ambitions to promote acceptable legalised non-casino poker tournaments if the casinos get burnt to the ground.

RoundTower

There are no casinos in this country. I can't tell what you're talking about.

hotspur

Maybe he meant those wonderful gentlemens clubs where we all sit around swirling brandy, discussing Wittgenstein, and what's to be done about unrest in the colonies, and sure if anyone should care to wager a few guineas with a fellow member that Phileas can't circumnavigate the globe in a certain period of time sure what's the harm?

MadsL

Maybe he meant those wonderful gentlemens clubs where we all sit around swirling brandy, discussing Wittgenstein, and what's to be done about unrest in the colonies, and sure if anyone should care to wager a few guineas with a fellow member that Phileas can't circumnavigate the globe in a certain period of time sure what's the harm?

Post of the Month!!!

jem

MadsL wrote:

Post of the Month!!!

disagree, post of the year.