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Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Hi! I'm John Strass and i like your site! Thank you!

Step back and ask yourself what is really going on with this bill. Learn about who put it together and why. If people lose their money playing online poker they dont buy things, things that are supposed to get a sales tax applied. Anyhow they tax us to death and 1/2 of what they promise we never see. Its as much of a gamble to believe in this State as it is to toss chips in any poker game.

What a bunch of hypocrites in Olympia! Gambling is OK in every form that they can tax but forget it if they can't! Under such circumstances, then they have to PROTECT US! What rubbish! My husband and I both play poker and as long as the games are fair and honest, we have a better chances of winning online than we do at a casino. This is because the rake off at the casino's is much higher . . . in fact too high for even the best players to overcome at low limits. Online poker is a very inexpensive form of entertainment. They offer limits as low as 5 and 10 cents and the rake off is much less than in a casino! Since my husband and I are both disabled we have a limited income and limited mobility. Online poker is really the only way we can enjoy this activity on a daily basis at low limits, because of our fixed income. We find that online, we are able to win, even at low limits where it would be impossible in the casinos. our limited mobility also makes it difficult to get to the casinos! This law is discriminatory against disabled and elderly citizens. It needs to be repealed!

Is ridiculous! You can play in a brick and mortar poker tournament, but you are a felon if you play one online? What kind of morons think this is a good law? To answer the fraud question - no. There are tons of big online companies that make money, and are incredibly sensitive to their public perception - they would never risk their profit stream by trying to skim you. Of course there are tiny companies that try to be fishy now and then, but if you spend 2 minutes researching where you play before you start, you are fine. A lot of these companies are actually publicly listed companies in places like Britain - very respectable and transparent markets where you know what is going on.

our freedom in America is getting smaller by the year, the whole point of taking away online casinos to US citizens, is for one reason and one reason only. MONEYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! they have their hands in the casinos across america and want to keep getting their profits from them, since your online casinos are not in America, they feel that they can do what ever they feel to keep their hands in every one's money. THIS IS THE WORST LAW THEY HAVE PASSESD IMPOSING ON ALL AMERICAN FREEDOMS TO HAVE FUN. UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even banks won't let you decide where you're going to spend your money with your debit card (i.e. an ATM at a casino). The government and the banks need to get out of our spending habits and our bedrooms. It's none of their business. I'd be more than happy to pay the tax on my gambling earnings from online casinos. That is, if I was allowed to play.......

show up at the kent courthouse on thursday,,may 15th..10:30 am..law on trial and im gonna be there wearing red and carrying a sign with a lot of other people..everyone who dont like the state nanny,,,be there...pro poker players will be there to talk..look up PPA (poker players alliance) on net and see what you can do..This is a real good example of a law bought and paid for by casinos with no real good logic for its existance..it costs me 10 in gas and at least 40 to play at a casino...I can play for a couple of bucks and no gas online..wheres the logic..

its called self control and dicipline idiot.. dont blame online casinos for ur lost blame ur wife for spending money like that teach her how to control herself maybe a beating would do it!

Glad I'm not married to you bozo..if you solve all your marital disputes by beating your wife. I make twice the money my husband makes that makes me entitled to spend it any way even some of it foolishly.

There are so many good reasons why this law helps society. If people are going to gamble they will gamble, even in Utah (where casinos and gambling is illegal) people drive a few hours sometimes every weekend to gamble in Wendover Nevada. I have never heard of anyone complaining of the casino being so far away because the majority of people that go don't come back with more money than when they started. The reason why this law is so commendable is because it helps reduce the temptation of gambling more often than usual. There are plenty of benefits to having access to the internet, having a personal casino is not one of them.

This bill is the most ridiculous thing ever. Most people play poker or gamble online and sometimes its not even real money its just for play and now they wont even lets us gamble with fake money. They let people gamble real money on horse races and in actual casinos but we cant play online. We should have a freedom to play wherever and whenever we want and for our own entertainment not even for real money. This new bill is just insane and dumb...they have nothing else to make illegal anymore that they decided to choose this..how pathetic.

The bill on gambling only passed because it was stuck insides the port bill,and if the port bill does not pass some of our top people might go to jail for some of the things they were doing. its like not do what i do its do what i say. Bring the bill back and put it up for vote by its self.

I just wrote to my representative Judy Clibborn and she informed me that the representatives were told this law would align them with federal law. She was shocked to learn that this goes way beyond federal law. You need to contact your state legislature people! CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND LET THEM KNOW THIS LAW IS RIGHT OUT OF IRANIAN TYRANNY!

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If somebody lacks self-control, and will gamble too much; making them drive for four hours won't curtail it much. By waiting they'll just build up the anticipation and spend too much when they get there. Besides, if you had ever visited an online casino you'd know that they have, especially Poker, micro-stakes. With these players only wager a few cents or a dollar at a time. In real casinos you might pay a minimum of $10 to $20 just to get into a hand! So, in conclusion, I think you have shown very little understanding of this subject by commending this law. If you had just banged on a Bible and said "Gambling goes against God's word, and therefore is wrong!" I would have agreed more with that opinion more than the one you gave.

SOMEONE SHOOT MARGARITA PRENTICE! SHE IS IN THE POCKETS OF ALL THE BIG CASINOS IN OUR STATE. TURN OUT TO THE POLLS AND GET HER OUT OF OFFICE!

educate your representatives on this matter. let them know we are mad and want this reversed.

you are an idiot! Keep your religion to yourself...maybe some of us enjoy "the temptation" of gambling and don't want to have to subscribe to the puritan and mormon churches to lawfully live in a country that is supposed to be "free"

Right, and "religious" people NEVER do anything obsessive or impulsive like start wars or blow up abortion clinics. Get a life dude!

You may believe this helps society but how does anyone have the right to tell me how I can spend my money? You cant restrict things because you think it may become a problem for that person. Just like you cannot tell someone that they cannot drink unless they have broken a law. The thought may be nice that it will benefit society but there is no evidence that backs that up. Please do not try and control my life.

Our unobjective, for the people not special interest politicians haven't figured out a viable way to tax and police online gaming - probably due to special interest money the Casinos are throwing their way...