Here\’s a question from a reader that I thought might be useful to answer for everyone, including me! Chuck in Fort Worth writes: Hi Dan, Jake and I will be in Vegas the week of June 13. A buddy of […]
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Sanford Millar OP-ED There are two actions pending against online poker companies in the Southern District of New York — an indictment of individual defendants, and a civil forfeiture complaint against the companies. The civil forfeiture complaint seeks forfeiture of
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Here\’s a quick rundown of what\’s going on in one of the hungriest industries out there, and, game of skill or not, the parent biz of our beloved little poker world: ALABAMA — A small little gambling fight is going
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A big poker-related legislative battle is going on right now in Pennsylvania. In fact, state representatives debated the matter well into the night on Sunday — an unusual move for the Pennsylvania House. At issue is the inclusion of table
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photo: Jennifer Browning Meet Sharron, the new tourney director at The Lodge. There are lots of amateur poker leagues out there, and with all due respect, we don\’t pay as much attention to them as we used to unless there\’s
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Funny, here in the USA we\’re screaming, \”tax us! tax us, dammnit! for all in the name of freedom!\” Elsewhere around the world they\’re saying, yeah, we should tax … which has some companies considering new homes. Costa Rica plans
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Apparently our good friends across the pond are a bit more optimistic about the notion of the US opening its online gambling market in 2010 than we are … and in preparation, the buzz around England is that Betfair —
A couple of great pieces for weekend reading… Amy Calistri always has eyes on the stock market and the corporate goings-on of poker-related businesses, and her latest take on the sale of the WPT assets is right on the money.
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With banking matters all over the place these days, the IRS reportedly investigating Russ Hamilton, and Barney Frank putting together a bill that would simply strike down the UIGEA as if it never happened, I gotta think, well … I
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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