Was just writing a post highlighting a few places to bookmark for the week, including: Part-time Poker\’s \”Regulation\” page — seems to be a solid aggregator of relevant info The Twitter hashtag #ReidBill, which many close followers of gaming legislation […]
Poker Partyline Update from Pappas, the PPA, et Al D’Amato
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Stu Hoegner, our resident international gaming attorney here at Pokerati – a.k.a. @GamingCounsel as he is well-followed on Twitter – has located a copy of a document that has been widely requested by our readers in the past 24 hours.
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
So as we thought might-could happen (April, June), Harry Reid (D-NV) is pushing repeal of the UIGEA a way to shore up America\’s net bottom-line. I get the feeling the re-empowered Senate Majority Leader was hoping this poker-only proposal could
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This morning, Harry Reid received a letter in which the Senate Republicans have pledged to halt all action on lame duck legislative items until a deal is reached on tax cuts. In this Nov 29 letter to Reid, signed by
Senate GOP Vows Halt to All Lame Duck ActionUIGEA proponent Jon Kyl co-authors pledge
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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,
I\’m sure this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, obv … but was going through some old pics and came across this screen-grab from July 2006 (some two months before the UIGEA)… when I hadn\’t yet discovered the purpose
This Day in Historyish: July 2006 DOJ discovers poker blogs
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Maybe I\’m expecting too much from Annie … just watched her on MSNBC\’s noon-time news, and I think if I were her opponent in this mini-debate I coulda blown her outta the water — even without believing anything I was
Annie Duke Talks Internet Gambling on MSNBC Schooling the unschooled masses
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Here is the breakdown of yesterday\’s vote in the House Financial Services Committee. I\’m curious about those who chose NOT to vote, and libertarian-wise … Ron Paul\’s declaration of \”present\” — despite his stated support of HR 2267 a week
RE: HR 2267 Passes 41-22[-1] Semi-bipartisan support: Who Voted How
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The battle over Barney Frank\’s HR 2267 is heating up, and he seems to have found allies in sensible albeit unusual places. Specifically, supporting efforts to dismantle – or at least rebuke and revise – the UIGEA are the Heartland
Tea Party Conservatives Support Efforts to Quash UIGEA RE: Markup of HR 2267 Tuesday
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