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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1733821, member: 23910"] I'm starting to think you're not listening to me. Erm... it [B]is[/B] a zero sum game. There are no intermediaries, if you're winning money it's because someone else is losing it. And while certainly I rate [I]my [/I]chances of winning better than the lottery or table games that's not the case for all people. Some people suck so bad at poker that in the long run they'll never win. After the site takes its cut in rake and tournament fees it stands to reason that there are more winners than there are losers in poker. Those losers really would be better off playing table games or the lottery or something - just please don't tell them that, because I want them to stay on my tables. This may be true, but you still don't get it. Opponents of legalised online poker will have thousands upon thousands of degenerates and addicts lined up ready to tell their stories about how they lost their house, their job, their family or all of the above as a result of online gambling. Here is just one example: [MEDIA=youtube]Ovf103Ax6yU[/MEDIA] They'll also have thousands upon thousands of people willing to vote the issue at the next election. You cannot make this about emotion because you [B]cannot possibly win on those grounds[/B]. You can't argue that you should be allowed to play internet poker because you enjoy it and it's a fun game, because the opposition can turn around and say "how many people had to lose their houses for you to have your fun?!?" The same goes for your rights arguments - your right to gamble vs the right of a problem gambler's child to eat and have a roof over their head, which do you think wins? It's also absolutely true that it's unfair other forms of gambling online are legal and poker isn't - the hypocrisy of it is even more startling where I'm from, FWIW. But do you know [B]why[/B] those other forms of gambling are legal and poker isn't? It's because someone got in front of the people that mattered and did the numbers for them: this much in revenue for the government, this many jobs created and regulation so you can control it. I promise you they didn't make their case on the basis that horses really like to go for a run and it's every American's right to lose money on greyhound racing. [/QUOTE]

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