The Death of Poker Media?
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Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?From one of my readers:
I’m a Disabled Veteran from the War in Afghanistan. It’s hard enough not getting benefits and quality health care from Veteran Affairs. It’s hard enough finding a suitable job for my disabilities. Poker is one of the things I CAN do physically and mentally. Online Poker gave me an opportunity to play a game that I’m good at in the privacy of my own home, away from Casinos that aggravate my Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with rude customers and loud noises. Now I can’t play online anymore… at least not for REAL.
In my opinion, most politicians don’t care about anyone but themselves. They don’t care about service members (especially ones killed, permanently injured or diseased from war), and they don’t care about you. They don’t care about your children. They don’t care about your welfare. They don’t care if you eat, get sick or die. They don’t care about a safer country. All they care about is your vote, and how much money they can make. They couldn’t make money through Online Poker, so they shut it down, regardless of the millions of Americans who love the game.
Maybe I’ll just go buy a bunch of lottery tickets and scratchers in hopes I can WIN some money to pay for my medical expenses. At least with poker, I could apply skill. After all, poker is a game of skill, not LOTTERY LUCK. It requires THINKING. Here’s an idea, let’s ban all Americans’ rights to play games that allow THINKING, SKILL and CHOICE. At least with lottery, everyone’s still a sheep, and the government can make their money.
On a side note: Did anyone tell President Bush he was banning TEXAS Hold’em?
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
