The big news this week was, of course, the amending of the Department of Justice’s online poker civil suit claiming that Full Tilt Poker was engaged in a \”Ponzi scheme\” that defrauded its players. Needless to say, this was a […]
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Barack Obama was taking questions from the masses today in 140 characters or less. It really is a rather unique evolution in political communication. It\’s not too different from standing on a soapbox back in the day … except here
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In a bout of Democrat-on-Democrat tongue-lashing, longtime online gambling champion Rep. Barney Frank pointed to the Obama Administration, which oversees the DOJ, for pointless prosecutions and an unsmart use of resources, but came short of defending any indicted online poker
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WASHINGTON, DC – Harry Reid went on record about the lame duck session schedule, telling The Hill, \”we need to stay here until we finish.\” Whether or not \”finishing\” includes passing the online poker bill remains to be seen. What
Clock! Reid Calls for Extended Lame Duck; GOP Pushes for Recess
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For a good portion of last week, it seemed likely that the #reidbill was going to be attached to the tax cut bill making it\’s way through Congress. On Friday morning, Politico reported that the tax cut bill had no
Possible iPoker Vehicle Approved by House, awaits Senate#reidbill: Omnibus or bust?
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In last Friday\’s twitfeed, my favorite tech-biz site Tech Crunch tweeted about their post \”Is Zynga Trying To Patent Virtual Currency?\” Apparently, the leviathan of multiplayer gaming networks — and big wildcard in the future of real-money online poker —
Sorry for missing this, but I guess I hit the Google snooze alarm. Ten days ago, federal authorities arrested Todd Lyons, 36, of Beverly, Massachusetts, for allegedly running an offshore sports betting operation called Sports Offshore. They pretty much threw
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I know poker players sometimes forget there\’s a whole non-poker world out there, but really there is … and one of the big stories in the big media these days is the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for US
Elena Kagan Plays Poker Supreme Court nominee noted in media as “accomplished player”
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I didn\’t intend to go here, but while looking up where J. Todd got his information about the $5.2 million spent on online gambling lobbying in Q1 2010, I dug a little deeper into the Bola Verde report (\”Business Intelligence
It\’s no secret I\’ve been nosing around in Full Tilt\’s business lately. They are the ones who, after all, practically built the poker world as we currently know it — and helped create an industry that so many of us
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