MASHANTUCKET, CT: Day 2 of the Mega Stack Challenge XVIII $1000+$100 Main Event begins started 11a EST/8a LV at the Foxwoods Casino here in Connecticut. I\’ve been (living) here at the casino\’s Great Cedar hotel since last Friday, after Amtraking […]
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AGA just released a statement in support of the \”Prohibition of Internet Gambling, Internet Poker Regulation and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2010\”, or, as I like to call it -> the PIG-IPRSUA. Catchy, right? Surprising? No. Except the time it
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In the exhausting hemming-and-hawing going in both the mainstream and iPoker media, there is only one topic on a bigger heater than when is this effing thing going be over if the #reidbill hand is still live. Is the \”Reid
Looks as if Las Vegas Sun has as many versions of their articles as #reidbill has drafts. I\’d link to the old article they published earlier, but I can\’t. Instead, the old link points to a new-and-?-improved article \”Reid’s office:
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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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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
Reid, backed by casino companies that \”were among the Democrat\’s biggest donors during his fierce re-election fight\”, is currently passing a draft-version of his own brand new internet gambling bill around Capitol Hill this week. The Wall Street Journal published
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Darvin may have just-said-no to an invite to the WSOP final table this year, but that doesn\’t mean his participation in poker tourneys is finito. From the heartlands to New England, Darvin Moon has spent the latter part of 2010
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This morning, Harry Reid received a letter in which the Senate Republicans have pledged to halt all action on lame duck legislative items until a deal is reached on tax cuts. In this Nov 29 letter to Reid, signed by
Senate GOP Vows Halt to All Lame Duck ActionUIGEA proponent Jon Kyl co-authors pledge
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Sign of things to come? A notice greeting visitors to seized file-sharing search engine torrent-finder.com. Federal graphic artists have been hard at work designing this new splash page for websites the DOJ intends to shut down. Lame-duck Congress resumed today,
