I’ve seen a few sights link to the LA Times op ed piece about why online poker should be legalized and regulated but I also ran across a similar point of view from Forbes. Increasingly it seems that the mainstream media is taking the industry’s side in this debate. In many cases, such as in the Forbes article, it points out the complete hypocrisy of the opponents to legalized online gaming.
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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.
