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[cindy2010]

I am pretty sure that the tournaments were illegal in the first place though weren’t they? This would be why the police closely monitor for this kind of activity, because it is not legal for them to happen in the first place. The public has no real right to be outraged over it, yeah of course they would be disappointed, but they have not got a single right to be over the top about it because they should not have even been doing it in the first place. If you ask me the public got off pretty lightly by only having the tournament closed down. I am pretty sure that if the police wanted to they could have also arrested and charged every one who had intended to take part in the tournament. After all, that is what happens when you break the law. So i think that they should actually be counting themselves lucky instead of cursing the authorities for shutting them down, otherwise they could have had to end up spending their money they had there to play poker on getting bailed out of prison instead.

[skylarking]

I could never live there, i could never even so much as visit there if they are like this when it comes to poker, i enjoy the game way to much to not be able to be in a tournament there that is for sure. But if it was illegal then why were these people even trying to do it in the first place. I do not think that the police acted to harshly in closing the tournament down, they did what they are supposed to do, their job. You can not just pick and choose what laws you want to abide by no matter how much you do not like some of them, the world would be a whole different place if people were able to select what laws they wanted to abide by and what laws they wanted to ignore. The population would be a whole heap smaller that is for sure because i am sure there would be a fair few people choosing to ignore the murder law. Would be weird wouldn’t it? If they had something like when you turned legal age you had to out a form stating which three laws you wanted to be able to ignore for the rest of your life. Ok that was random and i have diverted off topic. But the police did their jobs and the action that they took was not excessive, they got of lightly for what they did.

[simplelife]

Is poker illegal there all together or is it just tournaments or is it gambling in general? What about online poker? Yeah that law would be pretty random lol you come up with some strange things i must say. If it was something like they had acted and closed down an online tournament the was being held for the people of Mirande only then yeah i would say that they would have went to extremes by closing it down but it was a proper poker tournament and you have to accept that they would have had their reasons for it, they would not just ban poker tournaments and shut one down for no apparent reason what so ever, there would be good reasons behind it because they would be well and truly aware of the amount of people that would be there for the tournament and they would know how disappointed these poker enthusiasts would be with the tournament being shut down, it is for these reasons that they would not just do it over nothing. They did their jobs and that is all there is to it, if they were to leave it go and not do their jobs to keep the poker players happy then that would mean that they could choose when to do their jobs and when not to, the people would not like it if the police did not want to do their jobs when a home was broken into or anything like that but when it comes to this they want the police to look the other way, go figure.

[wisewords]

There does seem to be a bit of a double standard there as far as the opinions and wants of the public because they only want the police to do their jobs and act on crimes when it is convienient for the public to have them doing so. There is nothing wrong with poker though so why they do not allow it really does not make any sense to me. I do not feel that the game woiuld cause riots and chaos, if they police do their jobs properly then poker tournaments there would be very civilised and peaceful, and who is to say that the players would cause any troubles anyway in the first place. Poker players are now known for their violent streaks. It is not even a contact game or sport like football or boxing, and yet these contact activities are yet to be banned in Mirande. So the excuse that they do not allow it due to the violence and unrest that may follow the tournament or take place during the tournament is purely rubbish, it would be more likely to happen at a wrestling match or something physical like that so if that was their true worry then they would not be allowing these things either.

[leimo]

It never ceases to amaze me how people break the law and still manage to be silly enough to ask “What did i do wrong?” it is not as though the whole town had no clue that they were not allowed to hold a poker tournament, there are far too many people who were involved in it to have not a single one of them know that what they were planning and executing was in no way at all legal. I don’t see how they can be giving the authorities a hard time over this, if it was anyone else breaking the law they would want the authorities to take action and they would want justice to be served and yet they break the law and are punished by having their tournament shut down and they carry on as though it was a horrible miscarry of justice and that the authorities were being terrible people by closing it down and ruining something that so many people were looking forward to. They got off easy for breaking a very important law that they should not have been breaking in the first place, there is no excuse for what they did, no one forced them to have a poker tournament, they got away with it and they should shut their mouths and learn from it rather than complain after being given a walk for it when they should have been charged.

[dittle]

If the poker tournament was not such a large sized one then i could understand why the people are angry at it being closed down but this was certainly no small sized tournament, there were plenty of people there wanting to play and plenty more there to watch, it isn’t as though it was a small one that you could hide in your garage or anything. If they police had stormed into someones home and arrested and charged people for having a few of them sitting around the dining table playing a few hands with only ten or less players then i would say that the police had certainly over reacted but in this case they did not, they did the right thing and no matter how much you enjoy playing poker you do have to respect the laws of wherever you are when you come to wanting to play poker. Not every where will be so lenient in their punishments and in some places you can face very severe harsh penalities for breaking laws that are related to gambling. I would be disappointed too if i had gotten excited about a tournament only to discover that it would not be happening but at the same time i would accept it as something that was destined to happen in the first place if it was illegal.