When the UIGEA originally passed the House of Representatives – then known as HR4411 – most press carried the little soundbite from John Kindt, a business professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “You just click the mouse and lose your house.” That was the snippet from his more ignorant statement, “There are no needle marks. There’s no alcohol on the breath. You just click the mouse and lose your house.” He also had some other doozies such as calling the Internet the “crack cocaine” of gambling.
Well, being a soundbite type of guy myself I decided to register passthebilllosethehill.com. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it yet and the new domain name likely won’t even propagate for another 24 to 48 hours but I wanted to hear suggestions from the wise and learned people who frequent this humble poker blog.
So what do you think? The first few ideas to cross my mind were some sort of awareness site to help educate people about online poker. Any other ideas?
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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.
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“If you take away our freedom to be responsible for ourselves and our money, you will pay for it with your jobs.”
DuggleBogey,
Yeah, but that url would have been a tad annoying to type in :-)
http://www.Ifyoutakeawayourfreedomtoberesponsiblefor
ourselvesandourmoneyyouwillpayforitwithyourjobs.com
Enemies of poker site? Donate it to PPA?