Is Online Poker Legal?
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- Bodog / NewBodog Is Just The Beginning
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I may do a more in-depth post at some point in the future but I think the thing many people are missing in all this Bodog/NewBodog mess is that this is an interesting legal tactic that will likely be used [...]
- When Bad Things Happen To Bad People
Ran across this little story the other day. Retired Baptist minister and Cabarrus County commissioner, Coy C. Privette, got caught with his hands in the honey pot when he got popped for several misdemeanors related to prostitution. Now, the whole politician/minister thing makes this funny enough alone but the article goes on to [...]
- Other Neteller Founder Pleads Guilty
Can’t say this comes as any great shock but John David Lefebvre joined his partner Stephen Lawrence in pleading guilty. As I previously posted Lawrence’s plea all but guaranteed that Lefebvre would need to plead guilty as well.
- It’s July 10th. Do you know where your anti-gaming regulations are?
Not much to post about the anti-gaming regs since . . . they don’t seem to be here yet.
On a side note: Now that the final numbers are in for the WSOP Main Event, it’s funny to see how different people see the same information. The Poker Biz views the 6,358 number as [...]
- Casino Gambling Web Hits Back
A couple of nice posts over at Casino Gambling Web that take on the Focus on the Family claims that I also took on in a previous post. Casino Gambling Web does some additional fact checking and makes some slightly different arguments than I did so it’s worth a read.
An Internet Gambling Education for [...]
- Neteller Founder Pleads Guilty
The digital ink had barely dried from my last post about the good news for online poker overseas when news tickers started lighting up with word that Neteller founder Stephen Lawrence had copped a plea. I would have felt much better if he had been found guilty by trial because at least you know [...]
- Good News Overseas
Couple of cool things going on overseas. First the EU pimp slapped France and Sweden for protecting their own state run gaming monopolies. The government of Sweden runs its own poker room and France has alwyas had a poor record which was only made worse when the banned the Unibet-sponsored cycling team. [...]
- Gambling Fears Overblown?
A few days ago I did a post which was a response to Focus on the Family’s talking points against legalizing online gaming. Many of their points harp on sensationalistic claims about how many problem gamblers are at risk. While I took the position that problem gambling was a medical condition which invalidated [...]
- Rick Fox != Russ Fox
In a recent post I made the unfortunate mistake of calling Russ Fox, Rick Fox. As we all know Russ Fox is a noted poker author and organizer of the Escargot poker series. Rick Fox used to play basketball or something.
You can see how I could get the two mixed up. [...]
- Why Supporters of the UIGEA Are Full Of It
I recently posted an letter that Focus on the Family sent out to members. Unfortunately it was so full of complete crap that in an attempt to replay to each and every issue I was not very thorough in my responses. Here are their talking points. We should make my responses the [...]
