It may be time to dump any financial interest you have in online poker sites.
Yesterday, the nation of Albania announced it’s banning foreign-based online poker sites — sort of like Albania’s “Black Friday.”
Holy shit, how will online poker survive?
The tiny bankrupt nation, by far the poorest in Europe, has been a basket case for decades. With 2.6 million people, it has about the same population size as Nevada. However, unlike Las Vegas and Reno, no one in human history has ever visited that awful place as a tourist. It’s the Detroit of Europe.
The hellhole was a police state for years. Albania operated in virtual isolation, a hermit so sealed off from the rest of the world, they didn’t even have trade partners. Then again, why would anyone want to trade with Albania? Think about it. Has Albania actually ever produced anything? Is Albania famous for any reason whatsoever? When I mention “Albania,” what’s the first thing that pops into your mind, other than blank confusion? America’s national symbol is the bald eagle. Albania’s trademark should be a deer in the headlights.
The head ballbuster who ruled with an iron fist for 40 years, a prick named Enver Hoxha, used to attend the big international summits with other Communist leaders, where he frequently complained the former USSR and other hard-line Marxist states had gone “too soft.” Things got so bad for awhile inside Albania that people tried to escape into Yugoslavia, which must have seemed like Palm Springs, by comparison. It actually lost 15 percent of its population during the 1990s.
And now — just when it seemed Albania might be coming out of the 1500s and joining the rest of the global economy, they’re banning online poker sites.
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No doubt, this new online poker ban should do wonders to boost the Albanian economy. It’s the only nation in Europe with a shrinking GNP, its financial woes undoubtedly caused by a nation stocked with shitty Albanian poker players burning through their bankrolls like matches. When Albanians played online poker, even the Italians were winning.
To be fair, the announced ban isn’t absolute. Albania says it will allow online poker sites to exist, so long as they’re based within the country. What a rush at the floodgates this news will create. Imagine all the online companies ready to line up and swarm into central Tirana hoping to do business.
Imagine that. An entire nation imposing a ban on online poker. Stupid them. Good thing that could never happen here. No one would believe a modern country in the 21st century would go so far as to ban a game played on the internet. Talk about living in the dark ages.
Oh, wait…
Just a second…
Uhhh…Nevermind.