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 was a driving force behind the UIGEA he represents a generation of law makers who are so out of touch with the industries they regulate that they do the country more harm than good.
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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.
