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I really hope this is a fucking joke...Pinncale no longer accepting US bettors
I just tried to log into my account at Pinnacle, which is far and away the BEST online sportsbook in existence (there isn't even a close second), and I see this on their homepage...
Effective Immediately...
After careful consideration, Pinnacle Sports have chosen to voluntarily exit the U.S. market. Accordingly, wagers will no longer be accepted from clients within the U.S. as of Thursday, January 11, 2007.
Those clients who are affected will be required to withdraw their balances using the Cashier of their account. We assure all our clients your balances are available and Pinnacle will continue providing our international clients our same great value.
I'm not one to bash the USA...I'm proud of where I'm from and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I know, I know, that is just my opinion, and I acknowledge that as such. I'm sure if I was born and raised in another country I would feel the same about it. But how much longer are we going to allow our government, who is supposed to be working for us, to dictate where and when we can spend our discretionary income? I spent 10 years running adult bookstores and getting arrested on a weekly basis for whatever bullshit charge of the week the city could throw at me, all because they wanted to tell people where it was appropriate for them to patronize and spend their hard earned money. I always blew it off as the cost of doing business in the Midwest. Now I can't even gamble with the only place online I have ever felt safe gambling with? What the fuck is next? Are they actually going to ban jacking off because one of these idiots still believe we will actually go blind?
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