It's one thing to lose your money in a hand. It's another to have a foreign country's police confiscate it when you haven't broken any laws.
This is my biggest gripe with this situation. But big business has gotten so powerful here in the US they pretty much run the country now.
There's a good chance the larger banks outed the small banks because they got jealous of the profits they were making. And had the larger banks been doing this, there's a good chance this wouldn't hit the news.
But it was smaller, regional banks doing it. They're free game. The actual IMPORTANT banks in this country that have, in the last year, been doing very very well as people turn away from the larger banks. But now this whole 'scandal' comes out.
I don't know. A lot of this reeks.
Small banks doing well - US govt shuts down Poker websites which were a good part of the profits of many smaller banks and makes small banks look bad. Big banks profit.
It's a bit of a half-baked statement but you never know these days
Oh, and like I said before...it's a bit infuriating that our govt thinks they can take down websites forever when they aren't even based in the US and serve mostly foreign customers. Blocking access I'd understand, but not shutting down completely.
