(WASHINGTON DC) Both the House and Senate reconvened yesterday on a crisp bright fallish day in the Beltway. After a summertime recess spent allowing members to return to their home districts, it\’s time for Reps and Senators to get back […]
Congress Back in SeshHR 2267 in gear but waiting for 2268, election and lame ducks
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While the PPA\’s petition has already received more than 7000 signatures, including most of poker\’s top professionals, the PPA is not letting up on the Commerce Casino for its vocal opposition to HR 2267. Responding to the Commerce\’s response (to
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Drama was out in full force this past week, with allegations of hypocrisy, cheating, and extortion exploding through the poker world, which was still feeling aftershocks from an Annie Duke/Daniel Negreanu feud that had reached new levels of nastiness after
We\’ve been saying for awhile how critical Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is for any regulated online gambling legislation to stand a chance at making its way into law. And despite non-denial denials from his office regarding plans for a
We just learned the NFL is backing off its long-held opposition to online gambling — removing a major obstacle from HR 2267\’s path to becoming law. It was the King-Meeks amendment that assured the league the bill would exclude sports
Hedging Bets on Capitol Hill How we got rid of the NFL
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The NFL has officially retracted their opposition to HR 2267, removing a strong opponent to online gambling from the current political game. According to PokerNews, an NFL representative cites the King-Meeks amendment to HR 2267 as reason for the reversal:
Big Online Gambling Opponent Out NFL no longer opposes internet gambling efforts in DC
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Also from Gambling Compliance … This may be kinda old news now, but something else GC made available for all us poker plebes is their July interview with Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), sponsor of HR 2268, the legislation that lays
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For those not familiar, Gambling Compliance is one of a small handful of uberwonk journals for executive-types in the online gambling world. With offices in London and Washington DC, GC puts out high-level industry analysis that at least a handful
Internet super-behemoth Google seems to be wasting little time positioning themselves to profit from licensed internet gambling in the United States by investing in \”social gaming\”. Both the New York Times and Techcrunch are reporting that Google has agreed to
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Amazing. Didn\’t think it could be done. Yet the entities at Wicked Chops keep getting better and better at this whole video talk format, and if you look/listen closely you might start to believe that they\’re actually not unintelligent, uninformed,
High-Brow* Poker Wonk Fest RE: This Week in Poker This Week
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