So much craziness going on, and we\’ve hardly covered any poker. James Akenhead hit a sick three-outer — the crowd erupted — to triple up, and Antoine Saout called an all-in bluff from Darvin Moon with two pair to stay […]
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via the PPA … Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) have submitted their petition asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to ignore requests seeking to delay enforcement of the UIGEA.
RE: Banks Prepping for Kibosh (2) Old Congressional poker foes resurface
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Freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) fears online gambling, but hopes his TV show does as well as 2 Months 2 Million. I\’m not sure how much we\’re supposed to be sayin\’ about this … it seems like a major change
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People may not realize this … because we have gotten along just fine even with the UIGEA for more than three years now … but December 1st is something of a D-Day for online poker. If no bill or procedural
Mark it on your calendars (or just check back here) around October 22. The case of the Governor Beshear and the Commonwealth of Kentucky trying to claim the ability to seize 141 online gaming domains, or \”gambling devices\” as they
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I\’m not sure if it\’s an endorsement of our efforts or a call to action to our opponents … but be sure to check out this lengthy article in the October issue of The American Conservative: Coming Up Aces Legalization
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Barack Obama is in Montana today — where he\’ll be cavorting with Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)*, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and therefore has to come up with ways to fund any major health care reform. A
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The defendant, Kevin Raley, has already been found not-guilty … but the state\’s appeal succeeded in getting the testimony of Robert Hannum, Professor of Statistics at the University of Denver, thrown out on the grounds that Colorado law had already
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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 …
