Please excuse all gramatical errors and run on sentences, vodka is the source of all idiocy
I am drunk on Red Bull and vodka. We just walked back to Vllad’s place from having a few drinks and playing travel Scrabble at the bar (our tab read “Scrabble”) down the street from his place. We got home and found out the anti gambling bill that Andy has been following on some internet threads, that everyone said could not have possibly passed, has passed. Some redicilous thing tacked on to the patriot act. I’m not totally clear on what the deal is, but it seems to make it illegal for banking institutions to transfter money from gambling sites….or something like that, to your US bank account. We’re not really sure yet. The way that we get our money now is that we use Net Teller to transfer money from the online sports books to our banks accounts. This law may make it illegal for Net Teller to deal with the likes of us. Net Teller is basically Pay Pal of a similar sort.
We were talking about moving to the UK for next baseball season mainly because gambling winnings are not taxed as income. We were just waxing philosophical, but now……who knows.
This seriously sucks since most offshore sports books deal heavily on US action as a main source of profit. If there is limited US action, this will effect the books and in the trickle down will effect us, which in my drunken selfish state is what I care about most.
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