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I'd look askance at anyone who actually suggests anything, since they'd be helping you evade a law... Just saying.

[Edit] I realize that sounds mean, and I don't intend for it to be, but I do want to point out that you're asking for something in a public forum that could potentially get you into some hot water.

@ecriscit: Really? I'd bet that it was the twin horrors of certain reservation casinos not liking the competition, and the preference of the powers that be preferring that people just play the lottery instead. Besides, online poker is bad for you[tm].

@dweitzman: I'm sure your question was merely hypothetical.

@shrdlu: Not that I feel particularly strongly about online poker, but there are some states with laws that I find so ridiculous, that I would be tempted to go to those states just to break those laws... I suppose it depends on how you feel when the law and your moral sense is conflicted.

In some way, breaking the law and getting caught is one way to get the law itself seriously reviewed.

I'll not mention the more colorful laws to which I object to, but I lived in California when the ban on sale and consumption of horse meat was passed. Now, I have no particular interest in eating horses and don't encourage it -- but I find it questionable that horses have some differentiated status from cows, buffalo, pigs, or any number of other mammals people consume for food. If a bill was passed against the consumption of any meat, that's a different story; but, this slicing and dicing of subgroups (pun intended) smells a bit fishy to me. Mmm... sushi.

@hobbit: exactly - one in the same. Note that I said politicians in one sentence and casinos in the other. Although there is not a direct link between laws benefitting casinos and political donations, I would suggest that there is a correlation between the two.

In the most recent piece of legislation, and not frank's bill waiting to hit after the elections, a major casino in california changed it's stance on protecting online gambling. To shorten it up quite a bit, if they make it illegal outside of your state to play, then the commerce casino would likely get a very large portion of the california online gambling revnue. They would also have a lot less competition. Botton line, politician makes law, casino deposits campaign contribution.

Corrupt as it gets.

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