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Barack Obama on Online Gambling (Sorta)
Not good job creation strategy, President says

Finally, someone asked President Barack Obama semi-directly about gambling legalization. The college-student questioner didn\’t specify online gambling, and he lumped us in with drugs, prostitution, and other non-violent crime with revenue generating potential. But it does give a little insight […]

Barack Obama on Online Gambling (Sorta)

Not good job creation strategy, President says

Live-Blogging a Relatively Minor Congressional Confab

Blog / By Dan Michalski

I may or may not be talking about this morning\’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on today\’s episode of The Poker Beat … so that\’s why I\’m up listening/watching/clicking. It\’s kinda a big deal, I think … we got our

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Lineup for Online Gambling Hearing Thursday

Blog / By Kevin Mathers

(h/t to Oldbookguy over at 2+2): Thursday is the hearing in the Barney Frank-led House Financial Services Committee in regards to regulating online gambling. Witness List & Prepared Testimony: Dec 3 – 10:00 AM ET The Honorable Robert Martin, Tribal

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RE: Poker Robbery Thwarted at Texas Oldtimers Game

Blog / By Dan Michalski

The robbers were almost definitely amateur thieves, allegedly. Their names: Chaz White and Travis Thomas, ages 18 and 19. One of these fellas supposedly had played in the game recently while the other watched. They have been charged with aggravated

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First Peek at CityCenter Poker Room

Blog / By Dan Michalski

It\’s been conventional wisdom around LV for nearly two years that as goes the fate of CityCenter, so goes the fate of Las Vegas. The multibillion-dollar project and biggest construction endeavor since the Pyramids (and maybe the Great Wall of

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Poker Robbery Thwarted at Texas Oldtimers Game
Senior players chase down, catch young assailants

Blog / By Dan Michalski

Details still coming it … but so far it sounds like the feel-good poker robbery of the year: Last night two masked, pistol-wielding youngins reportedly ganked about $7,000 from a NL Hold\’em game of mostly retired old-school Texas rounders (ages

Poker Robbery Thwarted at Texas Oldtimers Game

Senior players chase down, catch young assailants

RIP NeverwinPoker, 2004-2009

Blog / By Dan Michalski

NeverwinPoker.com, the filthiest, most offensive poker site on the internet — filled with racist, sexist, drug-addled degeneracy and perverse nudity that provided a voice for a notably vile, socially maladjusted segment of the poker world — is no longer, or

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Poker in the Political Maelstrom

Blog / By Dan Michalski

Interesting story in the Miami Herald about Joe Cada, Kevin Schaffel (Florida\’s representative in the November Nine), skill vs. luck, and whether or not the game is good for you. My favorite line(s): \”We had 115 different countries have players

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Pokery “Lie to Me” Episode Monday Night

Blog / By Dan Michalski

From the New York Post: * Lie to Me (Monday, 9:01 pm., Fox): From the Of Course! What Took Them So Long? file comes this entertaining installment set at the World Series of Poker, with Tim Roth’s Lightman trying to

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Confirmed: UIGEA Delayed until June 1, 2010

Blog / By Kevin Mathers

From the Federal Reserve and US Treasury: Agencies Extend Compliance Date for Final Rule to Implement Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the release of a joint final

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