The World Bank is looking for a new leader to replace Paul Wolfowitz … and on the short list are Tony Blair (online-gambling friendly) and Bill Frist (not-so-friendly). Remember him? In case you don\’t — and in case The New […]
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We\’re hearing some interesting rumors from reliable sources about a fundraising poker tournament that didn\’t happen in San Antonio this weekend. The purpose was reportedly to raise money for the American Legion there — with top prize being a WSOP
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Yep, turns out there was indeed another poker game robbed in Dallas Wednesday night … yeesh, sounds very friggin\’ scary. It appears to have been low-stakes action, but that didn\’t stop three men from busting in to take whatever loot
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Poker bust last night at the Slick Billiards at 2344 Oates Dr. I don\’t know the details of this game — it was clearly more drunken low-stakes \”home game\” than sophisticated poker operation. Police arrested one person for Gambling Promotion
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From a British gambling-info website: Seven individuals and four companies are the latest to have been charged by the US Department of Justice for conspiring to violate the USA’s ban on internet gambling in a $150 million credit card scam.
Online Gambling Crackdown Continues, more serious charges
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I\’m sure this won\’t piss anyone off … but check out the letter Rep. Brian McCall (R-Plano) sent to a concerned poker citizen who requested his support on HB 3186 Wow. Way to encourage participation in the political process, sir.
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Just because our little poker bill in Texas didn\’t make it over its biggest hump doesn\’t mean the fun of fighting for legal poker is over. We got all sorts of federal fisticuffs on hand, and here we are talking
Ken in Arlington writes in with a reminder that the fight for good poker laws and righteous regulation is being fought on multiple fronts. While Lavigne and others are doing their political masterwork in Austin, Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and
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Over at The Agitator, they\’ve got a firsthand account from someone mis-arrested during the June Aces raid. If you recall, that was the poker room busted in cahoots with the A&E network … only to have the tapes from that
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Is there any doubt that these guys are clearly the two best writers in poker? Sorry McManus — you\’re still great and all, but that was like so 2004. The above stories (about life in the poker underground) are totally
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