The Las Vegas Sun published an article with breath-stopping title and sensational image of Reid ponderously looking downwards while chatting into his cell phone. Twitfeed #reidbill erupted. But take a closer look at this article -> frankly it doesn\’t make […]
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There has been some confusion on at least one major topic contained within the currently-circulating Reid bill (via @Kevmath), and that is surrounding the licensing of \’bad actors\’ (see below on this), which is my shorthand for entities operating US-facing Internet
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Got a speaking role in the Harry Reid online poker bill debate, playing a professional know-it-all an expert commentator on casinos, politics, and poker. When yammering on to a \”mainstream\” journalist for some 45 minutes about a plausibly complex subject,
Stage Being Set: Harry Reid Plays Rush Poker Pokerati punditry in the news
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BJ and Dan go heads up on the implications of the proposed Reid Bill + Who is the Best Canadian Athlete in the World? The Poker Beat: December 6, 2010 Jonathan Duhamel the best athlete in Canada? The WPT\’s Season
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Was just writing a post highlighting a few places to bookmark for the week, including: Part-time Poker\’s \”Regulation\” page — seems to be a solid aggregator of relevant info The Twitter hashtag #ReidBill, which many close followers of gaming legislation
Poker Partyline Update from Pappas, the PPA, et Al D’Amato
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As December\’s American political dialogue takes shape — lame-duck tax policy, North Korea, Wikileaks, don\’t-ask-don\’t-tell — online poker (and \”poker only\”) is registering a few blips on the national radar. It still will take some time before the main-mainstream really
Welterweight Poker PunditryAndy Bloch on Face to Face with Jon Ralston
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It was a bit of a slow week as far as big money goes, but yours truly has searched far and wide for as much tournament action as you can stomach in this week\’s report. WPT Marrakech (Marrakech, Morocco) Coming
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Stu Hoegner, our resident international gaming attorney here at Pokerati – a.k.a. @GamingCounsel as he is well-followed on Twitter – has located a copy of a document that has been widely requested by our readers in the past 24 hours.
As word that Harry Reid was authoring his own poker/casino-friendly bill repealing UIGEA filtered through the press today, people in the poli-poker world have been itching for a look at the draft filtering around Capitol Hill. Fortunately, the global gaming
So as we thought might-could happen (April, June), Harry Reid (D-NV) is pushing repeal of the UIGEA a way to shore up America\’s net bottom-line. I get the feeling the re-empowered Senate Majority Leader was hoping this poker-only proposal could
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