FBI seizes online poker sites

[SPX]

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New policy.

[MMA_scientist]

With regards to your first point "everyone does it anyway, we might as well all benefit"

I'm not sure if that's a valid argument because A. not everyone does it. I actually think less than 25 percent of people gamble. B. That sounds similar to the argument that potheads make when they try and argue that weed should be legalized.

well I didn't mean "everyone" literally... more like "hey bro, everyone's doing it"

As for potheads... yeah, it is the same argument, and it is working for them. Pot is legal in several places, and lightly enforced in many others. I am not a pot advocate by any means, but I can see why it should be legalized (aside from my Libertarian view that most drugs should be legal) basically because of the incessant drumbeat of the pot advocates.

Anyway, it is just a persuasion speech, the arguments don't have to be airtight.

[poopoo333]

No problem. Do me a solid and let me know what you think when you read it.

I liked it. It seemed to cover everything and was easy to read. You should submit that to bloody elbow and be their gambling writer at each event

[SPX]

I liked it. It seemed to cover everything and was easy to read. You should submit that to bloody elbow and be their gambling writer at each event

Cool, thanks.

It's now the property of Beckett Media, but I would love to have a (paying) gig doing the write ups for a big website.

[poopoo333]

You should contact bloodyelbow. They have that fucking moron Jonathan Snowden, they'd probably give sideloaded a gig.

[SPX]

Maybe I will do that. Thanks for the heads up.

[poopoo333]

You know who has a cool fucking job? Ariel Helwani.

[SPX]

You know who has a cool fucking job? Ariel Helwani.

He does. I guess he's like the pinnacle of the MMA journalist and what we all aspire to.

[Svino]

He does. I guess he's like the pinnacle of the MMA journalist and what we all aspire to.

You can aim higher than that.

[SPX]

You can aim higher than that.

Why do you say that?

[Svino]

Why do you say that?

Well, I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but he kind of seems like an "empty microphone". I don't think I've ever seen him do anything other than toss out light generic sports-interview questions. He's about the furthest thing from what one might call a "hard-hitting" journalist.

There's a reason he was the go-to guy for Dana White's Strikeforce-merger interview. Dana knew he could be relied on to stick to the script and not rock the boat.

[SPX]

Well, I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but he kind of seems like an "empty microphone". I don't think I've ever seen him do anything other than toss out light generic sports-interview questions. He's about the furthest thing from what one might call a "hard-hitting" journalist.

There's a reason he was the go-to guy for Dana White's Strikeforce-merger interview. Dana knew he could be relied on to stick to the script and not rock the boat.

That's an interesting observation.

One thing I've learned in the brief time that I've been in this industry is that you have to walk a fine line between questions that address controversial issues and keeping your sources in a mindset to where they'll actually talk to you. A lot of people will get pissed off if you ask hard questions, like you violated their trust or something. And even if you get an answer from them right then and there, getting an interview in the future might be impossible.

I've talked to a few people that I would consider fairly high profile, like Gray Maynard and Miesha Tate, and I can tell you that they really kind of trip up if you ask them some hard questions. That's not to say that you shouldn't, but there's an art, an art I'm still figuring out.

So sometimes you really have to be kind of tactful.

[Luke]

Well, I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but he kind of seems like an "empty microphone". I don't think I've ever seen him do anything other than toss out light generic sports-interview questions. He's about the furthest thing from what one might call a "hard-hitting" journalist.

There's a reason he was the go-to guy for Dana White's Strikeforce-merger interview. Dana knew he could be relied on to stick to the script and not rock the boat.

100% agree Ariel Helwani isnt a good journalist imo he spends all his time sucking up to Dana so he can get the best stories.

When has anyone ever seen him press questions or ask anything remotely hard in an interview ?

[Luke]

Everyones getting there money back

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan may have declared war against the world’s biggest online poker companies, but the two sides are working together to return funds belonging to U.S. players.
Under an agreement announced today, the government will allow PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to use their web sites to facilitate the withdrawal of U.S. players’ funds held in accounts with the companies. The five-page domain-name use agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker will also let the poker companies continue to use their domain names to offer for-money online poker games to players outside the U.S. In return the world’s two biggest online poker companies have agreed not to facilitate for-money poker games for U.S. players and to let an independent monitor verify their compliance with the deal

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/pokerdomainnameuseagreementspr.pdf

[SPX]

Interesting.

The government actually did something decent for once.

And with that, I'm officially not worried about keeping my money deposited.