On Wednesday, Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson (pictured) spoke at the G2E gaming industry conference held his home casino, the Venetian in Las Vegas. Adelson, as you may know, said he’ll spend “whatever it takes” to outlaw online gambling in the United States and has become public enemy #1 in our industry.

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Poker Players Alliancefeatured a running commentary on Twitter during Adelson’s keynote speech, which you can watch by clicking here. The organization started off by noting, “Adelson takes a direct swing at @PokerStars, says they are criminals trying to get a US license.” PokerStars, which Amaya Gaming recently purchased along with Full Tilt Poker, appears close to launching in New Jersey and will perhaps do so as early as this month.

Adelson appeared to stick to his usual script, including, according to the PPA, saying that you “cannot know your customer on the internet.” The PPA retorted, “Hmmm, tell that to the US banking system.”

A motif from the PPA involved Adelson seemingly ignoring the fact that he owns brick-and-mortar casinos, three of them in the US: the Venetian and Palazzo in Las Vegas and Sands Bethlehem in Pennsylvania. At the same time, Adelson has been building his war chest courtesy of gamblers in Macau, yet at the same time is trying to undermine the expansion of online gaming. The PPA pointed out Adelson’s hypocrisy in back-to-back Tweets:

Other members of the poker community took to Twitter to voice their reaction to Adelson’s speech. Regarding the ability to determine a person’s age online, which Adelson does not believe is an easy endeavor, Online Poker Report’s Chris Grove noted that policing a person’s age can also be quite difficult live:

Also in attendance to watch Adelson was industry mainstay Nolan Dalla, who reported a less-than-memorable experience:

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