Here\’s an argument against Barney Frank\’s efforts to legitimize American online poker that I certainly didn\’t see coming: Lifting the Online Poker Ban Could Cause a CO2 Emissions Boom Playing poker online is a time consuming venture playing tournaments can […]
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Leftover but good-for-viewing vid … PPA Executive Director John Pappas on CNBC … not just speaking on behalf of the latest Barney Frank legislation, but establishing the baseline for where discussion on these matters begins … it\’s good to see
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Kudos to Rep. Barney Frank for introducing the much-anticipated legislation this morning. The Internet Gambling Regulation Consumer Protection & Enforcement Act of 2009 has no H.R. number attached yet, but the process has begun. The name of the bill doesn\’t
I\’ll leave the analysis to those with more expertise in legislation and the law, but Barney Frank has issued two pieces of legislation in regards to online gambling. One bill is simply to delay the UIGEA by one year until
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Rep. Barney Frank is set to introduce his pro-online gaming legislation tomorrow, complete with 10am ET press conference. With any luck, this will get some mainstream news coverage, but we can be assured of at least some C-SPAN live feed.
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The April 9th edition of The Poker Beat included a discussion about the possibility of poker legislation that would repeal the UIGEA, allowing companies like PartyPoker back into the U.S. Dan (the Wolfman?) made some solid arguments, but when he
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We have so many convos about online poker — from the play to the business to the laws — and more specifically of late, how it\’s seen by the non-poker masses. I got a little anecdotal reminder of these \”normal
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Online gambling is discovering allies in the strangest places, as Utah just announced their support of Barney Frank and online gambling regulation. Meanwhile, the New Hampshire lottery runs into problems with the UIGEA. Plus, why are Irish banks searching peoples
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As Dan mentioned during his Poker Beat podcast debut last week, former New York Senator Alfonse D\’Amato is on the case of the UIGEA in Washington, D.C. He published a piece in Roll Call, the magazine of Capitol Hill, in
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This has been out for a few weeks now, but I\’m reading it for the first time … found via Pauly, who also let us know about John Caldwell\’s unexpected-at-this-moment-in-time-but-not-surprising departure as editor in chief of PokerNews. I know most
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