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...between Gibraltar and Kentucky.
A few weeks ago, I already wrote about the dear judges in Kentucky, who try to seize domains like PokerStars.com. Funny of course, because Kentucky would need to think it owns or at least controls the Internet. But sad, if it would work.
Yesterday, the responsible court "ruled" that the dozens of big gambling / poker sites on their list have to expell Kentucky residents – or face forfeiture of their domains. Still, I don't believe they could – but is Kentucky with its population of just 4.2M worthy enough as a customer base? Will they be worth going a 1% risk for big companies like PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker?
It may seem wise for them to obey the court's decision, and we won't suffer too much, because Kentucky should be at best .5% of the world-wide poker market. But the signal could be bad! What if bigger states like Texas or California would follow their example? Let us not hope that the indian heritage for the name Kentucky, Ken-tah-ten, meaning "land of the future" will not mean a negative future for the poker world.
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To get past these thoughts and over the ocean, let's talk about tiny Gibraltar with its tiny 28,000-odd population. Other than Kentucky, Gibraltar is great for Poker, being home to companies like PartyGaming or Mansion – and us.
If there's not a once-in-ten-years-storm like on last weekend, Gibraltar is a very nice place to live. Especially if you're used northern Germany, the 20°C plus sun we got here now in mid-october is nearly tropical.
Here, we are planning for the next stages of your PokerStrategy.com experience: social networking features, new navigation, user-to-user-chat, new forum software – quickly followed by relaunches of all major parts of PokerStrategy.com (video section, coaching area, news hub etc.). And we will do even better once we move to our new office, where we will be able to fuel our development and improvements even better.
A last few words: I know, I'm not the most active blogger amongst all, but that is mainly because I don't want to write nonsense, but only stuff that I guess might interest you. So vice-versa, if you could think of an interesting topic, I'll be more than happy to read your suggestions in the comments!
