As December\’s American political dialogue takes shape — lame-duck tax policy, North Korea, Wikileaks, don\’t-ask-don\’t-tell — online poker (and \”poker only\”) is registering a few blips on the national radar. It still will take some time before the main-mainstream really […]
Welterweight Poker PunditryAndy Bloch on Face to Face with Jon Ralston
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As word that Harry Reid was authoring his own poker/casino-friendly bill repealing UIGEA filtered through the press today, people in the poli-poker world have been itching for a look at the draft filtering around Capitol Hill. Fortunately, the global gaming
Reid, backed by casino companies that \”were among the Democrat\’s biggest donors during his fierce re-election fight\”, is currently passing a draft-version of his own brand new internet gambling bill around Capitol Hill this week. The Wall Street Journal published
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Sign of things to come? A notice greeting visitors to seized file-sharing search engine torrent-finder.com. Federal graphic artists have been hard at work designing this new splash page for websites the DOJ intends to shut down. Lame-duck Congress resumed today,
Day 1 of the Heartland Poker Tour \”Championship Open\” $1500 +$150 Main Event tagged-and-bagged @ around midnight at the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant, MI with 60 players remaining of the original field of 413 (*huge* for HPT.) This
Early holiday shopping? Have some unused cash on your Paypal account? Can\’t make day 2 in a WSOP $1K, let alone run deep in the Main? eBay has you covered. Listing the item under the \”Jewelry & Watches >> Fashion
No charges have been filed, despite yellow tape identifying this site of a deadly poker game as a crime scene. This time it was player-on-player violence … leaving one man dead and another injured after a gunfight broke out early
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A relatively routine raid of a low-stakes poker game in Greenville, South Carolina turned bloody yesterday night — as police tried to gain entry to a poker house. The game host, now known to be Aaron Awtry, 72, shot through
Check it out … with so many individual states hungry for cash, California being the hungriest, that state will definitely be taking a look at the issue until they somehow figure out a way to collect the most duckets from
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The PPA speaks out on the South Carolina Supreme Court\’s game-of-skill hearing, where they helped provide legal counsel for the five players contesting their misdemeanor illegal gambling convictions. This case has nothing to do with casinos or video poker. This
