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[QUOTE="Charade You Are, post: 1833145, member: 39511"]
Seen a few TV news stories on this.  Sound bites from John Pappas of the PPA on Fox News are countered with "experts say online gambling more addicting" yet not saying who these experts are, or some gambling addict coming out against online gambling saying online gambling will create 9 million "new" addicts.

I doubt whether they are all "new" addicts, although I can see existing addicts gambling more if it is more easily available online.

All the more reason to regulate and license it imo.  Instead of knee-jerk reactions, I would rather see reasonable steps taken to protect addicts from themselves rather than using that as a reason to not legalize and prevent responsible adults from making their own choices.

A few ideas could be to license professional players, use credit ratings to determine deposit limits (someone with a real gambling problem probably has a horrible credit rating), not allow use of credit cards to deposit, and institute stop loss limits.

Also lumping poker in with other forms of casino gambling is not in poker's best interest.  While I would never play any casino games, online or land-based--I want my poker back!!!
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