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UFO1947
Alien Interrogator
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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Location: NS, Canada
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 Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:29 am Post subject: Full Tilt here to stay |
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Anyone get else get thier Email yet?
Dear UFO1947,
Full Tilt Poker is here to stay!
As an online poker player, you have probably heard about the new legislation passed by the U.S. Congress earlier this week that attempts to prevent you from being able to transfer money to online gaming sites.
While this new law has prompted some sites to announce plans to abandon the U.S. market in coming days, we assure you that Full Tilt Poker will continue to provide all of its players - both inside and outside of the United States - with a full complement of real money ring games and tournaments for their enjoyment.
After consultation with numerous legal experts in this field, we want to make you aware of the following:
* Legal
The new U.S. legislation does not in any way attempt to criminalize the act of you playing online poker. By playing online at Full Tilt Poker, you are not breaking any U.S. Federal laws.
* Full Access
The passage of the new Internet Gaming law will not have any impact on your day-to-day experience at Full Tilt Poker. We will provide all of our players, everywhere in the world, with full access to all of our games and tournaments.
* Easy Deposits and Withdrawals
We will continue to provide our players with all of the safe, secure and convenient methods for transferring money to and from the site. In fact, in recent discussions with our payment processors, we have been assured that this new law will have no immediate impact on their day-to-day business. And as always, any monies that you have on deposit with Full Tilt Poker remain completely safe and secure.
Furthermore, we firmly believe that online poker is not encompassed by this new legislation. In any event, we will continue to lobby for an express carve-out for online poker and for your right to play a truly American game from the privacy of your own home and computer.
We are excited about the future here at Full Tilt Poker and in the coming weeks and months, we plan to roll out many new features designed to enhance your online poker experience.
We appreciate your loyalty to our site and, in turn, want you to know that we will remain loyal to our valued players in the United States and throughout the world.
We look forward to seeing you at the table.
Sincerely,
Full Tilt Poker |
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KyIe Richardson
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Joined: 24 May 2006
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| arn't you from canada UFO? |
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acesfullokings9
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Joined: 30 Sep 2006
Posts: 1740
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:47 am Post subject: |
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| I'm Australian and I got the same email, but from a different site. |
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junkbutton
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Joined: 17 Feb 2006
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Location: Gutterrock, NY
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| acesfullokings9 wrote: |
| I'm Australian and I got the same email, but from a different site. |
What site? I like to know what all the sites are doing... I don't like to just play on one or two, and I wanna know who gets my Titan roll... |
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UFO1947
Alien Interrogator
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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Location: NS, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:31 am Post subject: |
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| KyIe Richardson wrote: |
| arn't you from canada UFO? |
yeah but i got it anyway. |
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fiadmin
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Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 407
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| junkbutton wrote: |
| I wanna know who gets my Titan roll... |
You can send it to me.  |
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acesfullokings9
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Joined: 30 Sep 2006
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Location: Australia
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[quote="junkbutton"
What site? I like to know what all the sites are doing... I don't like to just play on one or two, and I wanna know who gets my Titan roll...[/quote]
Junglepoker.com I think, I never even played there, just opened an account cuz someone said check it out, wish I hadn't bothered. |
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MissRead
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Joined: 10 Oct 2006
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| Full Tilt is gonna get as much rake as it can out of its US playerbase and those migrating from other sites for the next 250 odd days then it will have to cease US business............ |
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Kloaked Spirit
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Joined: 03 Nov 2005
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| Full Tilt is gonna get as much rake as it can out of its US playerbase and those migrating from other sites for the next 250 odd days then it will have to cease US business............ |
No it won't. What will happen after 250 days is a possibility of it being harder for US players to transfer funds to and from here due to banking regulations. This is not the same as saying FTP will be forced to get rid of US players. It will still allow the US players that wish to find new ways of transferring funds. |
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dumwaldo
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Joined: 23 May 2006
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drowsy
Royal Flush
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 971
Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: Full Tilt here to stay |
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In fact, in recent discussions with our payment processors, we have been assured that this new law will have no immediate impact on their day-to-day business
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The letter is nice and all, but I still wonder. This passage sounds alot like weasel-speak to me. It all depends on what your definition of immediate is.
It also doesn't say what the impact will be one minute past 'immediate'.
[edit:] After all, if they actually meant to say what people seem to think they were trying to, namely "There will be no problem getting your money from/to Full Tilt and your bank account", they could of just said that. They didn't. They instead used weasel-speak. |
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