I missed the Texas gubernatorial debate last night … then I caught the last two thirds of it on C-SPAN. Unfortunately, the two biggest pro-poker candidates, Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, gave two of the more lackluster performances. It […]
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I\’m sure I\’ll be stumbling across more and more must-click items throughout the week … the latest is Amy Calistri\’s well-written take on what all came together to create the current online poker clusterfuck.
Wow, for the first time, the non-poker media is actually paying attention to non-poker issues. The result is some incredibly insightful stuff and the occasional pure bullshit: First off, DICK MORRIS has an interesting column — penned a few days
So Party\’s pulling out, and so is PokerStars … Pacific Poker is out but Paradise Poker is staying put (for now). Is it just me, or does all this remind you a lot of the (temporary) implosion of the Dallas
Poker at its Renaissance
The game became a worldwide obsession virtually overnight. Now what will become of the game?
By Dan Michalski — published in All In Magazine, premiere issue, June/July 2004
I\’m confident the sky isn\’t falling, but the stock is. PartyPoker\’s stock is down 55 percent in the first hour of trading today. UPDATE: It took a while, but the non-poker world is finally starting to notice poker\’s issues. Even
OK, no need to freak out, but the Port Security bill that also makes any semblance of online gaming illegal seems to be going into effect sooner than many political typicos (self included) imagined possible, and that has big-time internet
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Call your Senators … even now, even though it\’s late. Bill Frist is apparently trying to slip through the online gaming ban tonight, as we speak. I\’d also like to take this chance to remind you all that no matter
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Check it out … Big Bob Wilonsky also wrote about the Dallas poker scene in the Observer\’s Best of Dallas issue and laments its decline. He also seems a little excited to hear that new poker options here are emerging.
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This just in … the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act is apparently dead in the U.S. Senate. Not sure what that does to the law in Washington State, but had this legislative measure passed, it really coulda broken into a states
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