Gary Wise’s new article on ESPN.com, Choosing Between Career and Home, about the recent decisions by Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars to forbid residents of Washington state from playing on their sites. Obviously this decision, made to comply with a long-standing Washington law making online poker a felony, … Read full post
The cheating scandal at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker made national news yesterday with an article in the Washington Post and a segment on CBS’ 60 Minutes. There was a lot of doom and gloom predictions about what this coverage would look like, but in the end I thought … Read full post
It’s been nearly two years since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act snuck its way through Congress as a rider on a port security bill. The UIGEA criminalized not the gambling itself but the facilitation of financial transactions for the purpose of gambling online. In other words, you could play, … Read full post
I’m not sure who this company is that they produced an ad of this length and production quality, but I thought it was awesome!
Ultimate Bet released a press release today admitting that employees of “the previous ownership of UltimateBet” were responsible for cheating high limit players out of an unspecified amount of money, largely believed to run into the millions, thanks to “unauthorized software code that allowed the perpetrators to obtain hole card … Read full post
Just found this sweet, kind of random video over on the GPSTS blog:
On Tuesday, I posted about a rally I attended at the Massachusetts State House to protest a provision of Governor Patrick’s casino legislation that made playing poker online a felony punishable by up to $25,000 and/or two years in jail. I’m happy to report that the committee holding a hearing … Read full post
I dragged my ass out of bed this morning and got over to the State House around 8:30 AM for a rally, organized by the Poker Players’ Alliance and by Harvard Law School professor Charlie Nesson and his Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.
Since they were going to have … Read full post
Nat Arem, who was instrumental in exposing and investigating the Absolute Poker cheating scandal, reports that he was contacted by a 60 Minutes producer and a Washington Post reporter interested in doing a story on the incident:
… Read full postA few weeks ago, I was contacted by 60 Minutes in
I just saw him a few days ago and he didn’t say a word about this to me. Pretty sweet though!
More good press for the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, with PokerNews running a piece on them today:
“The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society already has chapters established or planned at Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts, Indiana–South Bend, and George Washington, and is looking to establish … Read full post
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday morning entitled, “Establishing Consistent Enforcement Policies in the Context of Online Wagers“. Annie Duke’s testimony has gotten particularly good reviews. It definitely helps to portray poker as a wholesome pursuit when a witness can open her testimony with, “As a … Read full post
Full Tilt Poker blogger and editor (their book is pretty good, and addresses some subjects not covered by a lot of the poker literature) has an interesting piece on the applicability of international law to online gaming in the US. He mentions that superstar attorney Alan Dershowitz, representing BetOnSports, … Read full post
Harvard Law School’s Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society is hosting a conference this Saturday entitled “Innovative Thinking: The Educational Value of Poker” featuring Jim McManus, Mike Sexton, and Dr. Alan Schoonmaker.
The conference will be a convening of academics, teachers, students, and other interested parties to analyze and discuss the … Read full post
Adanthar wrote a great piece recently about the potential effect of the Absolute Poker scandal on the Poker Player Alliance’s efforts to legitimize online poker in the US. He cites the lack of a market response to the revelations of cheating as evidence that informal regulation by the community of … Read full post