Finally...

[Paul Watson]

I thought online gambling just got banned in the States?

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Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

[J4amieC]

fat_boy wrote:

become a contractor, then yo can make that monday afternoon, tuesday afternoon, wednesday ....

Too right! If you the OP thinks gambling is a good way to make money you need to wake up and smell the coffee!

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[Chris Buckett]

Dario Solera wrote:

Quite illegal and/or unfair

No illegal, there are products that screenscrape the poker table and read the log files to produce an analysis of the other players at the table (you can build up profiles over time of all regular players). Combine that with another screenscraping program and that makes suggestions based upon the types of players at the table, the cards in your hand and what's on the table. Add that to AutoIT, which can perform automatic mouse movements and input based upon what's happening on screen (via a script) and you've created a poker bot. Unfair, maybe. All these products are available. The art is in creating a profile to the program that makes the suggestions. I found all this after I created a c# screenscraping program to read a poker table (just a proof of concept program). Then I did a bit of research to find out what there already was on the market, and decided to call a halt to my prog. ChrisB

[Ryan Binns]

Bill Gates Antimatter Particle wrote:

Double income here I come

In your dreams. Gambling's a good way to bankruptcy, but not much else.

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

[Bill Gates Antimatter Particle]

Im not in the states. Online poker in the USA is not illegal despite the new legislation. It simply tries to prevent the placing of bets via american banking institutions, and criminalises the companies if they accept wagers from USA bank accounts, but not the player. The players will simply fund their account by some other means.

"Life begins at 140"

[NormDroid]

LOL!

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs

[Duncan Edwards Jones]

..It simply tries to prevent the placing of bets via american banking institutions Given that the SWIFT institution turned all their records over to the US authorities, I'd say the US based players would be advised to be very cautious in assuming that an offshore bank account will protect them. But as you're in the UK where gambling is legal that's not your problem. Question though - how do you know that the online game isn't rigged? It is, after all, a computer program...

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[Chris Buckett]

Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

how do you know that the online game isn't rigged? It is, after all, a computer program...

It's one player against another, not one player against the computer. The casino always takes a rake (a percentage of the bet) from each game anyway. The only way it would be rigged against me is if all the other people sat at the table were bots run by the casino, and the casino favoured the bots with cards that would make me bet more, and thus increase the rake (or win outright against me). ChrisB

[Rob Graham]

And you have some way to be certain they aren't doing just that against you often enough to insure you become impoverished?

[Chris Buckett]

No, but only in the same way I'm not certain that the whole world's not out to get me (eg the gov't, supermarkets, and various other shadowy organisations).:) Besides, that's like saying that ebay has fake users bid on products to increase the final sale value so that they get a larger percentage final sale fee. Or software companies deliberately including bugs in versions of their software so as to encourage us to get the next bug-fixed version (with different bugs)...... ChrisB

[Chris S Kaiser]

If it was an advert, then one of the online sites would have been mentioned instead of the general: Online Poker.

This statement is false.

[David Wulff]

Basically, online gambling (except horse betting because they paid enough money) with non-US companies was banned.

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