Comments on: Ready to Rumble? Frank to Introduce Bill Tomorrow

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:09:09 +0000

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/financialsvcs_dem/21frank_008_xml.pdf

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/financialsvcs_dem/gambling2.pdf (this bill is to delay the UIGEA until Dec. 1, 2010).

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:30:53 +0000

Not sure how liable this source is…but http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2009/May/06/Frank-to-unveil-Internet-gambling-bill-today.aspx says the press conference is a 4PM ET today.

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:27:29 +0000

Well, the bill got Forbe’s attention: http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/06/gambling-barney-frank-markets-equities-online.html

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:18:04 +0000

Perhaps it will be after the quorum call.

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:13:48 +0000

I’m sure it’ll be available online shortly, C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 will always cover the House and Senate over any press conference, although I’m sure they’re recording for later airing.

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:13:15 +0000

Maybe if C-SPAN 2 turned down the classical music we’d be able to hear what is going on. After flipping through the channels (and continuing to do so for another hour) the commentators for C-SPAN make CNN commentators sound like WWF announcers.

By: California Jen

California Jen — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:07:23 +0000

It looks like it’s not going to be covered anywhere on TV.

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:37:23 +0000

I got my clicker and DVR ready to go. I even skipped my daily morning tourney to focus my attention on this (also to focus on a chirizo breakfast).

By: California Jen

California Jen — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:23:17 +0000

The best I can tell from the C-Span website is that C-Span2 covers the Senate, but I think it’s going to take some flipping channels to find out for sure.

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:35:53 +0000

Does anyone know if the conference is suppose to be on CSPAN, CSPAN2 or CSPAN3?

By: DanM

DanM — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:29:13 +0000

Don’t forget Howard was just in DC less than a couple weeks ago:

http://pokerati.com/2009/05/01/dc-charity-poker/

I’m sure he had at least a meeting or two related to this bill. But considering that FTP is still literally raking it in … they certainly see this as a long term game … and in the long run are not going to support anything that may fuel a whole new poker boom if it were to knock Full Tilt out of the industry in the process.

By: Losty

Losty — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:35:40 +0000

Interesting that this gets done right when Clonie’s lawsuit against FTP et al Gets dismissed with prejudice against most defendants. (Apparantly she can refile against Howard, Tiltware LLC and Mr. Bitar)

Wonder how the FTP California suit will be played out in this.

This could be air, or BIG..

By: DanM

DanM — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:50:47 +0000

I’m going to wait until I see the bill and any media strategy behind it before making a call. At best a coinflip pre-flop … possibly dominated.

We’ll have to see how it’s being pushed to the non-poker masses. Because it’s one thing to get the likes of us and CardPlayer ~~pushing~~ following its progress, but it’s something altogether different (and necessary) getting the non-poker press to make it an issue. And having our own people write op-eds for these publications, albeit important, doesn’t really count.

By: Card Chucker

Card Chucker — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:22:18 +0000

Thank god. I have been wondering what/how/if I’m suppose to claim my withdraw checks from the 3rd party companies. I don’t mind getting taxed on online winnings if it allows me to speed up the transaction process. Let’s hope that we win this one and then the Texas bill. I am still trying to grasp the idealism that poker is more of a gamble game than the lottery…I think online roulette is as skillfully probable as scratch offs or lotto balls.

By: California Jen

California Jen — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:37:16 +0000

Shrink, I hate to see you dismiss this before it even gets introduced. There might be more support behind this thing than we know. (See Kevin’s comment above.)

I’m going to make the exact opposite prediction: The bill has a real chance of getting passed in 2009.

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:27:41 +0000

FWIW, it's got the support and lobbying of Harrah's and Youbet.com

By: Poker Shrink

Poker Shrink — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:08:55 +0000

Prediction: The bill goes nowhere, gets no traction and eventually just goes away. Then we get another bill that just kills the UIGEA and next year they introduce several bills, the weakest of which passes.