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    Cap dat 4ss
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    Sportsbooks next

    Guys, you know it's coming. Vegas is going to want in the online game and next thing you know 5dimes and bookmaker will be seized. Matchbook already gone.

    Just sayin

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    Not seized just ban Americans

    Most of the books bank offshore unlike poker halls

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    gambling is too powerful. it is not going anywhere

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    No fkn way, a couple fkn poker sites get seized by the govt and everyone thinks the whole offshore industry is going to shut down, come on you guys can't be this dumb.

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    Ice, when the government is ready to start regulating and taxing the winnings, they will do the same thing to sportsbooks as you witnessed today with the poker sites. It will happen and of course there will be the naysayers, as Im sure there were prior to today. Matchbook leaving the US market is a dead giveaway. It is coming in time. Hope you don't lose too much when it happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cap dat 4ss View Post
    Ice, when the government is ready to start regulating and taxing the winnings, they will do the same thing to sportsbooks as you witnessed today with the poker sites. It will happen and of course there will be the naysayers, as Im sure there were prior to today. Matchbook leaving the US market is a dead giveaway. It is coming in time. Hope you don't lose too much when it happens.
    what exactly did they do to those listed pokersites, they took over their websites; they'll be back up and fully running in less than a week.

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    I will be depositing and withdrawing as usual and so will anyone else that cares to. The government does not have the power to completely shut down online sportsbooks that are not based in the US and it has been proven. As long as they don't have that power books that want to deal with US customers will deal with US customers. It is a simple theory that has been proven over and over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceminers26 View Post
    what exactly did they do to those listed pokersites, they took over their websites; they'll be back up and fully running in less than a week.
    ice, if thats all they had done it would be no big deal. They charged them with fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling. Issued arrest warrants with interpol. And issued restraining orders for 75 banks these sites use. So quite a bit more than just seizing some domain names.

    Sportsbooks are next. You may fail to realize this or admit it, thats fine. I just recommend not keeping these books as well funded in the event this does happen. None of us foresaw this happening today and none of us will predict when it happens to the books. Just be careful is all im saying

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    Quote Originally Posted by THEGREAT30 View Post
    I will be depositing and withdrawing as usual and so will anyone else that cares to. The government does not have the power to completely shut down online sportsbooks that are not based in the US and it has been proven. As long as they don't have that power books that want to deal with US customers will deal with US customers. It is a simple theory that has been proven over and over again.
    "Foreign firms that
    choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the
    laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted
    from their profits."

    We'll see

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    a uk bookmaker just bought 2 las vegas bookmaking companies.


    http://www.lvrj.com/business/british...119843254.html

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    Man these euro books and poker halls sitting pretty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Man these euro books and poker halls sitting pretty.
    yup. i can say off the record that 2 major resorts in vegas are looking into the same kind of deals with major offshore books.

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