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Message: [QUOTE="PlayedYou73, post: 1749754, member: 40974"] Not quite sure what you mean by "the house of cards would fold", but if you are trying to imply that if all the pros simply stopped playing poker, and by extension, stopped paying taxes (assuming that the majority of them were doing that in the first place), that it would somehow 'damage' the American federal government, then you are vastly over estimating the value of poker taxation, and vastly under estimating the total tax revenue the government collects from all sources. The money that is 'declared' as revenue and taxed is certainly not a pittance, but it is also not an amount that the Treasury Department is going to go broke over. And to say that the DOJ is committing some kind of 'error' by prosecuting people for bank and wire fraud? I don't get that. Bank and wire fraud is pretty clear cut. It has nothing to do with whether poker is a game of 'chance' or 'skill' at all. [/QUOTE]