I was fascinated by an article I saw on Tuesday in Wired (Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code by Jonah Lehrer – \’Easy Money\’ in the print edition) addressing the lack of randomness in scratch lottery games, and especially in extended-play […]
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I have a friend in the poker industry. He\’s a fantastic player, very smart, and a successful entrepreneur. On top of it, he\’s a great guy. He has started up, managed, and hosted several top-rated poker television shows. He\’s no
Who Owns Your Poker? (Part I)Why It’s Important to Protect Your Intellectual Property
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I was all set this morning to write a blog entry on the continuing dispute in Kennedy & Omotoy v. Full Tilt Poker et al. (The original post by Dan Michalski was back in 2009.) This litigation is fascinating; it
Much of a good lawyer\’s work comes down to listening (more than talking), reading, and writing. This is no different for gaming attorneys. I spend a large part of my time reading and writing. Gaming generally describes the type of
The latest order in Kentucky v 141 Internet Domain Names has just come down from the Franklin Circuit Court. Remember that this case goes back to 2008 when the Commonwealth of Kentucky tried to seize certain domain names on an ex parte
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There has been some confusion on at least one major topic contained within the currently-circulating Reid bill (via @Kevmath), and that is surrounding the licensing of \’bad actors\’ (see below on this), which is my shorthand for entities operating US-facing Internet
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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.
Here are my thoughts on the most interesting stories in the gaming sector over the past week or so: New Jersey Moves Forward on Intra-State Gaming – Yesterday, Monday, November 22nd, the New Jersey State Senate passed S490, the succinctly-named \”An
The midterm elections and the November Nine are over, but interesting things keep happening in the gaming world. For starters, the lame-duck session of Congress is underway; time will tell if anything that affects Internet gaming will pass before the
I know that these past few days everyone\’s been talking about Jonathan Duhamel\’s triumph in the November Nine. Sadly, I wasn\’t in Las Vegas for it and it has been covered much better than I ever could elsewhere. In lieu
