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- Calvin Ayre Travel Guide
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!According to Gambling911 it is probably a good idea if Calvin Ayre not visit any country with an extradition treaty with the US. The cite rumors that he is already under secret indictment and you can pretty much assume that [...]
- Smoke A Joint And Play Hold’em With Barney Frank
Rep. Barney Frank, the man who has been sponsoring legislation to overturn the UIGEA, has introduced a bill to remove federal penalties for having up to 100 grams of marijuana for personal use.
"The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government’s business," Frank said on Capitol Hill. "I don’t think [...]
- Bodog Gets Nicked For $24 Million By The DOJ
Looks like the DOJ has taken up Calvin Ayre on the challenge he offered on the cover of Forbes "Catch me if you can." The DOJ has recently seized $24 million from bank accounts affiliated with Bodog. I can only assume that Bodog had assets in US banks for the purpose of paying marketing expenses [...]
- Online Poker Industry Report July 30, 2008
Another stagnant week in online poker. The entire market was about break-even with last week. Rooms of note are Party who was up almost 22% on the back of several promotions all hitting at the same time. Everest retreated from last week’s big pop. More or less those that were down this week were up [...]
- When Bad Things Happen to Bad People
Looks like Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has been charged with seven counts of perjury to a grand jury. This is the jackhole that has become infamous for describing the Internet as a series of tubes.
Senator Steven’s description has also been used to explain why horse raising was excluded from the UIGEA.
Not that Senator Steven’s [...]
- Tokwiro Releases UB Cheating Scandal Statement
It looks as if Tokwiro, parent company of UB and Absolute, has issued a statement regarding their investigation into the cheating happening over at UB. I’ve included the statement below.
TOKWIRO CONCLUDES ITS INVESTIGATION INTO UNFAIR PLAY ON ULTIMATEBET SITE
Findings Turned Over to KGC
Refunds to Affected Players Continue
Company Will Pursue All Legal Remedies
MONTREAL, CANADA - [...]
- Online Poker Is Not A Crime
Hat tip to Nat for this one.
- Kanhawake Gaming Commission Reads Bill’s Poker Blog
Either that or I have good timing.
No sooner had I fired off my post expressing disappointment regarding KGC, UB, and Absolute’s failure to offer something of substance in regards to the cheating scandals KGC issued the following press release.KAHNAWA:KE GAMING COMMISSION APPOINTS INDEPENDENT MONITORING-INVESTIGATION TEAM
Effective immediately, the Kahnawa:ke Gaming Commission (KGC) has [...]
- Be Careful What You Wish For
I was playing devil’s advocate the other day and I was wondering what if we were close to getting legalized and regulated online gaming in the US. If I was anti-gaming and realized that I can’t fight the trend anymore, how might I throw in a curveball to muck things up?
Then it occurred to [...]
- Google’s NoFollow Tag is a Joke
Over this weekend I noticed that my Page Rank on Google shot up to PR8 from PR3 for about an hour. I thought perhaps Google had decided to retract their penalty for not no-following some of my links but I’m back at PR3 so perhaps they haven’t.
Nat Arem first picked up on [...]
