Plea for legalization of online poker

Personal plea from a lifelong poker player who has special reasons for wanting online poker to be legal.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• ppa
• poker-players-alliance
• pokerplayersalliance
• Internet
• gambling
• legalization
• disability
• handicap
• legislation

[kickfostermac]

well stated great video

[chynco]

When will government ever learn that banning things they consider bad doesn't simply make it disappear, all it does is make more people into criminals.

[davidseawa]

Incredible, Chris. Very well done and I'm so proud to know you are one of the many brethren of this quite big, but yet specially bonded, poker community.

There's so much to say on this issue, and unfortunately most of it is negative, and with such a positive message here I just don't feel like going over all of it here but it saddens me deeply what special interest and corrupt entities have done in their attack on our beloved game.

[chronic0149]

I just realized that this video is from before black friday. great video and it really is more relevant today especially. hope it works out for all of us cyborg

[weert6666]

the only reason it's illegal is because of money, tyrants exercising their powers over normal people doing normal things like playing poker online. there is nothing wrong with playing poker online and it shouldn't be illegal.

[timfbmx]

They took errrr jobs!!!!

[NYStateOfMind986]

Awesome video man. I wish you lots of luck and much support..

[BerserkGuts7]

I've always done well when I've been playing my game well online, so I don't see a reason to worry, and I've successfully cashed out.

[wescomplice]

@BerserkGuts7 you are gettng scammed in the sense that you can't see your opponents, nor the dealer, nor is the software fully audited, anyone who blindly trusts offshore gaming sites is naive to say the least. i respect your opinion tho, you are entitled to whatever you want to think.

[BerserkGuts7]

@wescomplice plus you're missing the point of this, I'm so glad that you must think so highly of yourself as a poker player that you feel threatened by any random person on youtube that states they have skills. I'm just supporting the fact that there is skill involved in poker and it's the losing players that claim poker is rigged. You don't have the mind set to play poker if you think getting bad beats means you got cheated.

[BerserkGuts7]

I'm not aware Jason Mercier said something like that, so how about you stop making a fool of yourself. And I turned $20 into $1,217 playing just $0.50/$1.00 live games in the last couple months. I dunno, you tell me what's up. Since I usually buy in for $10-20 and walk away with $60-200