Marketing at its worst??

I work in the online poker industry. I like it, and I feel that we offer an honest, safe and entertaining product to our customers. I get a bit upset when two faced American (or European) Politicians take cheap stabs at our industry, in order to try to regain gambling tax revenues to their respective states.

The latest news in this direction in the honorable Governor of Kentucky, who, get this, has requested 141 domain names to be transferred to the state of Kentucky immediately. Among these domain names are bodoglife.com, doylesroom.com, fulltiltpoker.com and the company I work for.

The reason -

The loss of tax dollars to the state has probably weighed heavily on the state’s decision. Even the state admits unlicensed online “gambling significantly undermines and threatens horseracing, Kentucky’s signature industry and a key tourism industry, by creating unregulated and untaxed competition.”

“Unlicensed, unregulated, illegal Internet gambling poses a tremendous threat to the citizens of the Commonwealth because of its ease, availability and anonymity,” Governor Steve Beshear said. “The owners and operators of these illegal sites prey on Kentucky citizens, including our youth, and deprive the Commonwealth of millions of dollars in revenue. It’s an underworld wrought with scams and schemes.”

A tremendous threat? WOW... That word "threat...."

I think you need a whole lot of imagination to understand the concept, that if you gamble, in whatever form, with the government, and it is taxed, this is not threatening, but if you gamble online and it is not taxed, this is a "threat" to you as a person.

Are governments around the world really trying to market their monopolies on gambling by putting down online operators as much as they would with a terrorist organization?
Mr. Governor of Kentucky, I ask you this! If a man walks into one of your noble race tracks, and bets his last $500 in the world on some horse that falls over in the first bend, what exactly are doing to keep this man safe? What barriers do you have in place, to stop this man from loosing his last $? I am just going to answer that myself – None…

Two faced, lying and corrupt politicians… puke!

Finally, if you knew ANYTHING about the industry, you would know that you have as much chance of receiving one of those 141 domains as using those last few brain cells you poses. 0%
Out…