This story on Channel 8 has nothing to do with poker … but really it does.
It\’s about energy drinks (yum!), and newfound health concerns associated with them. Pokerati has long contended, as the hedline suggests above, that the boom-time business of possibly addictive, taurine-infused pharmaceuticals sold at convenience stores (to kids!) for upwards of $3 a can is just waiting for a little government intervention … because there\’s simply too much money being made for the politicos to not want their cut.
What we\’re not good with here at Pokerati is time. Whether that will take five months or 15 years to happen, we\’re not so sure. But I do find it especially interesting that the Channel 8 story above says that last year there were more than 4 billion cans of lightly carbonated liquid meth sold … which would make the energy drink biz a $12 billion industry. Does that number ring a bell? It should … because it was the estimated value of the online poker industry shortly before the passage of the UIGEA.
You see what I\’m getting at? Poker is about math. So is politics …
(And some people wonder why I don\’t sleep.)
