Comments on: The Future of Gambling? Doyle Brunson Meets Cantor Fitzgerald http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/ Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas WSOP Poker Blog, now with PLO too! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174792 DanM Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:25:12 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174792 @Prieure lots of things got/get more dangerous with the internet and handheld technology. Indeed, there will be more problem gambling situations, but not necessarily from a percentage standpoint. IMHO, that's not reason enough to limit the good things about it. (Think how many marriages Facebook has probably helped destroy ... but that doesn't mean we should get rid of Facebook, right?) Besides, technology is inevitable. In fact, think about it ... later in our lifetimes we will undoubtedly be seeing people play video games for real money. It's already happening on a small scale. @Prieure lots of things got/get more dangerous with the internet and handheld technology. Indeed, there will be more problem gambling situations, but not necessarily from a percentage standpoint. IMHO, that’s not reason enough to limit the good things about it. (Think how many marriages Facebook has probably helped destroy … but that doesn’t mean we should get rid of Facebook, right?)

Besides, technology is inevitable. In fact, think about it … later in our lifetimes we will undoubtedly be seeing people play video games for real money. It’s already happening on a small scale.

]]> By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174791 DanM Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:20:08 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174791 Here's another interesting related video (with the CEO of Cantor Gaming talking about it on CNBC): http://www.executiveinterviews.net/players/mini/default.asp?order=U12939d Here’s another interesting related video (with the CEO of Cantor Gaming talking about it on CNBC):

http://www.executiveinterviews.net/players/mini/default.asp?order=U12939d

]]> By: Kevin Mathers http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174790 Kevin Mathers Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:13:27 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174790 Haven't people been able to gamble through their TV for years in the UK? Haven’t people been able to gamble through their TV for years in the UK?

]]> By: Prieure http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174789 Prieure Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:01:55 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174789 The more like a computer game that gambling gets the more dangerous it becomes. It makes it less real, in my opinion it's always better to feel the money and/or chips in your hands. Just because we have the iPhone applications over here I don't think it's a good thing. The more like a computer game that gambling gets the more dangerous it becomes. It makes it less real, in my opinion it’s always better to feel the money and/or chips in your hands. Just because we have the iPhone applications over here I don’t think it’s a good thing.

]]> By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174788 DanM Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:48:21 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174788 BTW, just read the article you linked to, and yeah ... that seems about right -- took them four years between the passing of a law+developing of technology to bring the vision behind it all to some sort of fruition. BTW, just read the article you linked to, and yeah … that seems about right — took them four years between the passing of a law+developing of technology to bring the vision behind it all to some sort of fruition.

]]> By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174787 DanM Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:46:33 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174787 Yeah, as far as I know, these three casinos are the only ones with it ... not sure about places like Atlantic City. And yeah, the technology has been there for a while, as has the legal framework ... but as we are learning in all things (online) pokery, it takes a while to bring them all together and truly put it all in the public's hands. Yeah, as far as I know, these three casinos are the only ones with it … not sure about places like Atlantic City.

And yeah, the technology has been there for a while, as has the legal framework … but as we are learning in all things (online) pokery, it takes a while to bring them all together and truly put it all in the public’s hands.

]]> By: Kevin Mathers http://pokerati.com/2009/12/13/the-future-of-gambling-doyle-brunson-meets-cantor-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-174786 Kevin Mathers Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:43:49 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=12904#comment-174786 Isn't wireless betting only allowed in Nevada? Some quick Googling brings up this was allowed since March 2006: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11991715/ There's been plenty of commercials with a poker theme not promoting a cardroom, but this would appear to be a first with a poker player, playing poker, not representing a poker site. Isn’t wireless betting only allowed in Nevada? Some quick Googling brings up this was allowed since March 2006: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11991715/

There’s been plenty of commercials with a poker theme not promoting a cardroom, but this would appear to be a first with a poker player, playing poker, not representing a poker site.

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