Petition to ban Russian players that moved out of the country

gena31 said:

Open your eyes and see who and what atrocities are doing. Look for more sources of information and think.

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Sounds like you are projecting (aka saying this to yourself)

antonis32123 said:

Don't know if you are so naive or ..... . I don't know ......

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I'm betting of the latter.

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If a Russian player does not support Putin and even relocate to another country, I see no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to play.
We have Russians in my country that hate Putin and I have no problems with them. We have freedom of speech, they know it and use it.
"Fxxx Putin" is the new normal part of their vocabulary.

Thank you for your position!

MWill87 said:

Hey Everyone,

I'm new to this forum, but there are things recently that deeply concern me about online poker and I wanted to voice my opinion in one of the biggest community. I play NL25 to 100 and some smaller stakes SNGs mainly on Stars, playing a few hours a week. I have my days, but you would probably call me a fish that loses by a small margin, but that doesn't bother me as it's just a long time hobby for me.

What does bother me deeply however is that I always see presumably winning Russian players that moved to new countries like Armenia recently due to the location restrictions raised by most poker rooms. I can't help but feel terrible when these guys are at my table, afraid of losing money to them, supporting their war economy by doing so. I know that 50 bucks is a very small drop in the ocean, but it is not a drop I feel comfortable contributing. I am also aware that some of these players probably don't support the war, but I still keep imagining that my hard earned money ends up on Russian bank accounts hence inadvertently supporting another life getting ruined, another child orphaned, another girl violated, another community erased, another Bucha. Seeing all this horrible suffering of the Ukrainian people, I got to a point where I just don't even sit down to play in this player environment anymore.

I would very much support if the leading poker rooms that showed at least some compassion to Ukraine, like Stars and Party acted as one and stopped supporting putin's war effort by all means, disallowing Russian nationals to participate in the games, especially the ones that were clearly playing and living in Russia before the war. I didn't include GG, because the whole network clearly has the moral compass of a drunken pirate.

I can say for myself that i will not take part in any online poker until this issue is addressed. Let's put another dent on Russia's war machine!


Best of luck to everyone!

Martin

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