This Day in Historyish: July 2006 DOJ discovers poker blogs
by Dan Michalski, Aug 18, 2010 | 12:18 pm
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 of labeling images more descriptively than just wsop28.jpg, and the Feds apparently hadn’t yet figured out how to hide an IP address when emailing a link to a small-time poker blogger’s suggestive tag.

At the time, Phil Hellmuth had just won his 10th bracelet, no one thought twice about playing on Ultimate Bet, everyone in poker still had money, and Jamie Gold (of all people) seemed to represent the very worst poker had to offer. Ahh, the good ole days … even Russ Hamilton was presumed innocent then.
Though I hardly recall why specifically, something about this visitor seemed peculiar enough for me to wanna preserve the moment. With the benefit of hindsight, I’m sure I was just kidding.
Mark Gahagan says:
August 18th, 2010 at 12:28pm
Maybe they wanted to show you that they are always watching…
phil says:
August 18th, 2010 at 6:56pm
lol. a monkey suited power whore from DC surfing the web looking to beat down a poker player. let the revolution begin.