Bit late though, just sayin' <:smugon:512048583806025739>

Yeah Italians are crazy bad with discipline.

I'm a poker player and some of my best customers are Italians.

I know, I'm actually about to cut it here and get some sleep, at least it's weekend...
Customers?

I call them customers because, you know, I'm offering them the service of reducing the weight of their wallets <:Veemote:501103628883591188>

@ETBrooD really bad players?

Technically almost everyone I play against is a customer to me, so I consider everyone a customer

But what do you mean by "best customer"?

Well, those who virtually hold their wallets open so I can just grab inside and take whatever they have to offer :>

Means bad players 🤣

tsk tsk we don't say those bad words here <:sargonfingerguns:568463117856669696>

The situation is actually quite interesting because live poker is currently a big no-no

"Economically challenged"? "PokerFace challenged"?

Too many wealthy poker players come from China

And AFAIK, gambling is forbidden under the Chinese law (so does prostiute and porn BTW).

In Macao you can play poker

Actually the biggest games run there

yes

Macau is like a City state

its an administrative region

It's basically Hong Kong but from the Portuguese and not the UK.

Oh you're right, they make their own laws despite technically being part of China. Like HK.

yeah,diff laws

Exactly, these things are forbidden on the Mainland, they have no qualms about shaming offeders on national TV if they catch them.

kind of like a containment zone for gambling, keeps it out of mainland china

It's a sign of a prosperous country when gambling is legal

how so

Because people who gamble have excess cash to spend on things they don't need

lot of gamblers are ppl who cant afford it

It's illegal here (besides the lottery and sports gambling, especially Football/Soccer) precisely because of addiction.

There are always problem gamblers, it's the same with drinking

i dont mind gambling per se but when parents are spending money on gambling then letting their children starve, thats an issue

Oh, and the crime associated with gambling.

I mean technically online poker was illegal in the US for a while, too. That was right after the poker black friday (fulltilt poker)

The DOJ froze billions of dollars in user accounts.

I had like 8k frozen for a few years.

The easiest way to gamble is by getting on a ship which sails out of the territorial waters.

Never tried that tbh lol

I'd just go to Vegas, seems better

Well, I'll cut it here, need to sleep.
Night

*or morning, it's 5AM here