Rock Paper Scissors? The last time a rich French dude came to New York to bail out the Americans was Rochambeau in 1781 — fewer than eight WSOPs before George Washington established the DOJ office currently trying to put the […]
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For whatever reason, don\’t ask me to explain, I\’ve started looking back through some of the 300-or-so unpublished posts in Pokerati\’s drafts folder. LOL. I found the one pasted below, from early \’07 as I got caught up in the
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By letter to federal Attorney General Eric Holder dated July 14th of this year, US Senators Jon Kyl and Harry Reid have made known their views on Internet gaming. Or rather: they\’ve let the AG know what they want the
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Poker player and industry interests are preparing to hit Congress with selective aggression in DC later this month. The surge actually goes down on a Monday and Tuesday, but do days even matter any more when Americans can\’t compete against
PPA Calls Players to Washington for Sunday-Millions March Read More »
*THIS PODCAST ABRUPTLY CUTS OFF AT 2:20 MARK. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS. 80 MINUTES ARE MISSING* We cover the many big and small stories of the week: UB collapsing, cheating in the LockPoker/BLUFF Challenge, the new WSOP almost-live coverage, Bel…
Poker players (who tend to bitch the most?) love to hate on the Poker Players Alliance, the most vocal of DC advocacy groups for poker-related matters, and, obv disclosure, an advertiser of ours here at Pokerati. Discern for yourself my
The War on Poker? Video message from the PPA
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I\’m sure this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, obv … but was going through some old pics and came across this screen-grab from July 2006 (some two months before the UIGEA)… when I hadn\’t yet discovered the purpose
This Day in Historyish: July 2006 DOJ discovers poker blogs
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The attempt to regulate and license Internet gambling tries to move another step forward on Tuesday with the markup of HR 2267 in the House Financial Services Subcommittee. The markup is scheduled to start at 10am ET, with HR 2267
Markup of HR 2267 Tuesday Vote appears too close to call
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14 arrested — \”at least,\” authorities say — presumably to be charged with traffic-ticket offenses. Though you never know with Harris County … they\’d be up for Class A capital punishment there, I suspect, if that dang constitution didn\’t get
FBI, County Sheriff, Local Police Raid Houston Underground Game Read More »
This is an odd one … never before heard much out of Israel against online gambling, despite there being no brick and mortar casinos there (I\’m pretty sure) … in fact, Israel is something of a haven — if not
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