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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2328819, member: 23910"]
Surely that's just a small number of poker site owners though, and TBH I really don't care about what happens to Ray Bitar :P

AFAIK people in the US who just [i]play[/i] poker aren't facing any legal action: if the government actually wanted to punish you for playing, they wouldn't have even tried to give people their Full Tilt balances back.

What you have an issue with is what your government will and won't let you do online.  I still maintain that getting poker classified as "not gambling" isn't going to prove much because those who oppose online poker and other forms of gambling 1: won't be convinced and 2: won't give up their other arguments, which the "gambling or not" argument does exactly zero to address.

You're up against an opponent who's infinitely better funded, much better connected and much better organised.  And they already have the status quo on their side.  And probably Jesus too, I hear he's quite popular over there.

Quibbling over whether or not poker is gambling is spitting in the ocean against these people.  They'll never let you win the argument, and even if they did they'd just beat you to death with a dozen other points: money laundering, tax evasion, the moral decay of society, threats to jobs in the B&M casino industry, a rise in problem gambling and the related social issues, why is nobody thinking about the children...
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