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Message: [QUOTE="neptun1914, post: 4457631, member: 314327"] In most countries except USA poker is still considered as pure gambling equal to slots and roulette by 95% of population and if you tell somebody that you play poker they look at you just like they look at criminals. Considering this imagine that you are politician and you are willing to create such government controlled poker site. Tell me how you will explain to those 95% of your nation that you are going to use the money from their taxes to create sites and casinos where their husbands and children can squander their money. I think that you can easily see the problem here. For the government it is much easier and problem free to collect taxes from the private companies organizing poker games and ban those of them who do not pay than to get their hands dirty with something so controversial as poker. Unfortunately this is the truth for now. [/QUOTE]