
Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I don't support overburdensome regulation of online poker sites.
There needs to be regulation which provides a fair game, punishes cheaters (both players and operators), and provides assurance to customers that the money being held is actually there.
Short of this, we will have more Full Tilts and UBs, and the perpetrators will repeatedly get away with it.
The fact that so many of the major poker sites turned out to be thieves/cheaters shows that the 1999-2011 model of self-regulation/free-market-regulation was not working.