What's your opinion on this new gambling law? will you still gamble online?

Answer 1

First off 'cool guy' if you don't like gambling why are you in the gambling section answering questions? Simply saying that you don’t like gambling isn’t even an answer to the question, but merely you spouting your personal opinion. If you don’t have an answer, don’t waste everyone’s time.

As to the question, or rather the answer to the question, I think the new law is total BS. Bill Frist snuck this law in in a grossly unethical manner. Simply adding an irrelevant bill into an anti terror bill is undemocratic and disgusting. It is quite clear that Frist doesn't give a crap about what people want, he just thinks he can push whatever right wing crap he likes into anti terror bills and get away with it. It is this that the Bush administration will be remembered for. Eroding people's rights and doing whatever the hell it likes using terrorism as an excuse or vehicle to push through whatever laws they like. I only hope people remember this in the upcoming elections.

As I see it so far I don't think this law will have a huge impact in America. It is already almost impossible to use an American credit card or debit card to fund an online gambling account anyway. So companies like Neteller will continue to do great business allowing Americans to spend their money on whatever they want (imagine that, free to spend our own money, WOW!).

There will be some companies that are likely to bow out of the American market, most notably PartyGaming. But there will still be some major players that carry on, business as usual.

Quite honestly this whole situation disgusts me. In the last survey I read only 18% of Americans believed that a ban was appropriate. Yet it takes one ****** with an agenda to change things so radically. It's even more disgusting because Frist claims to be doing this to protect families from gambling, yet his bill actually permits online lotteries, fantasy betting, and horse race betting. Not to mention the fact that you can still day trade legally, which is basically just another form of gambling.

I hope that the Bush administration is removed from power as quickly as possible and that the next administration works hard to restore our rights.

To answer the second part of your question, I will still play poker online. The bill does nothing to outlaw players playing, it just makes it slightly harder to fund our accounts and pick up our winnings.

Answer 2

I know it is cliché, but as a soldier in the US Army, it is a shame, that as we fight and die for other people’s rights, our own rights are being taken from us. My fellow soldiers, who are dying overseas, ARE truly dieing in vain. I am surprised that this legislation has not been more publically announced. I will find a way to still gamble online. But it was just announced as well, that the Poker Sites themselves are also going to ban US IP address from accessing thier sites.. If that happens, then I do not know how to work around that...

Answer 3

It won't affect me in the slightest. I have always used FirePay, and this new law will not affect my ability to deposit or withdraw in the slightest.

PartyGaming is a bunch of babies, and I hope they never get their market share back. I'll never play there again.

Answer 4

gambling is not good I do not gamble online