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Word on the street is that the long awaited rules that will provide the “how” part of the UIGEA will be out as soon as tomorrow and within a week at the latest. There will be an expected 60 – 90 day commenting period and then re-examination period which could take up to 180 days. During that time not much will change but it should be interesting to see what the proposed rules are.
I’ll post more as info becomes available.
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Warning: No Poker Content. Run for your lives!!!
A friend sent this to me and I thought it would be good to share as a glimpse into what India can be like at times.
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I’ve long said that the argument that compulsive gamblers will increase due to the availability of online gaming was highly questionable and now it appears the British government has produced the results to bolster my belief. According to a report published last week, 99.4 Britons were able to enjoy gambling responsibly. Only 0.6% were found to be problem gamblers. Now, this is despite the fact that online gaming is legal (and regulated), legal bookies can be easily found, and the National Lottery is pimped pretty regularly.
What the anti-gaming crowd ignores is that despite these positive findings online gaming could do even more to keep problem gamblers off the tables. Think of all the work that goes into thwarting cheating, bots, and fraud. If the same levels of effort were put into stopping problem gamblers you could even further reduce the number of problem gamblers able to gamble online. The same goes for underage gambling. Using both carrot and stick measures to reward and punish online card rooms for certain types of behavior you could all but eliminate all of the main problems that the anti-gaming folks trumpet so loudly.
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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.
Most recently I've decided to spend some time working on the blog, some personal projects, consulting work for poker rooms and affiliates, and continuing to work on my poker game.
I currently reside in Bangkok, Thailand where in my free time I enjoy photography, going down to the islands for some scuba diving, and learning the Thai language.
If you have any projects that need a fresh set of ideas and some outside of the box thinking that you feel we could collaborate on please feel free to contact me.
