The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a pretty good story … and though bummer that they described the honcho here at Pokerati as little more than \”Dan Michalski, who runs a poker Web site\” … hey, such is life and media […]
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Nothing we don\’t already know … but again, good that the national non-poker media is at least aware. And if we learned anything from our efforts in Texas over the post several years, the media still loves poker-related legal stories.
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Many of you often give me a hard time because of my aversion to \”statistics\” and \”data\” … and though generally I don\’t care about appeasing the peons \”readers\”, I found some of this info below on the \”interesting\” and
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Greg Raymer did an online chat with the Washington Post today … relatively interesting stuff, and good to see that while the non-poker-geeky masses may not be charged up about online poker issues, they are starting to understand them …
You can see how the debate over online poker regulation is getting more sophisticated. (And it makes a fun subplot during these times of health care debate.) While our side has effectively taken the argument away from our opponents about
I couldn\’t resist posting the view of where I\’m blogging from. There\’s something quite serene about sitting on grass in pinstripe slacks, leaning against a tree, with the view seen here … I\’m in a park just outside the Senate
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Had a brief little run-in with Ivan Neville (of the Neville Brothers, and now Dumpstaphunk), who\’s a low-stakes poker regular at Harrah\’s New Orleans, any casino town he plays music in, and online. Not only did he sing the National
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Howard Stern wasn\’t the only one to join the PPA this week (aka \”National Poker Week\”). Caught up in the poker-politicky whirlwinds emanating from Washington DC, Russ Hamilton also became a member. Says Hamilton, according to sources plausibly fabricated out
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Congressional staffers hold the keys to Representative doorways, and one of the first steps this week was educating these gatekeepers on WTF we\’re talking about. Not the issues at hand per se — yay personal freedom and taxation! — but
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National Poker Week kicked off with Al D\’Amato on Howard Stern yesterday, and Howard Stern joining, on-air, the Poker Players Alliance. While I couldn\’t help but wonder if anyone listens to Howard Stern anymore — or is he kinda like
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