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by David Aydt on October 11, 2008
Can Kentucky regulate something that does not exist in Kentucky? There lies the rub of the huge lawsuit that pits the special interest of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear who has been increasingly...
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More confusing internet gambling legislation is on the way, according to an article at Pokernews.com that covers the newest attempt by the United States government to clarify just what is, and...
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Reaching into the mail bag I've got some offers to make me rich from Nigeria, UK, and Montana? Guess steer prices are tumbling like my chips during an aggressive Omaha game. But, something did...
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The House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology hearing for implementing some teeth into the Unlawful Internet Gambling...
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Big time Online Poker/Casino operators GigaMedia Limited is not concerned with our friends to the north enacting a Unlawful Internet Gamble Enforcement Act type law according to a recent article at...
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Score one for the good guys. There has been a lot of chat about the petition to ban online gambling in the state of Massachusetts with a back-handed bill that would have allowed three resort type...
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When people speak from places like Harvard, other people tend to listen. Hat tip to Bill Rini who posted this video he found at Compatible Poker (great place to look for US-friendly online poker...
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Here ye! Here ye! The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is considered a bad law. (insert sound of crickets here) In a great article by Haley Hintze covering the American Banking...
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by David Aydt on January 02, 2008
NEIN! Is the call from German states when asked if they want online gambling in their respective areas. As PokerNews.com columnist Haley Hintze reports: An extensive ban outlawing almost all forms of...
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by David Aydt on December 27, 2007
Perspectives Weekly is back from our friends at the APCW (Association of Players, Casinos, and Webmasters) to bring us all up to date on the recent WTO trade agreements between the United States and...
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by David Aydt on December 26, 2007
If one avenue doesn't succeed try, try again. In light of last week World Trade Organization's decision for the United State to give the European Union trade concessions (worth in the tens of...
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by David Aydt on December 21, 2007
Pokernews.com article from Amy Calistri: During the negotiations, a price tag for the EU trade compensation package was estimated at $100 billion. Gretchen Hamel, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade...
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by David Aydt on December 04, 2007
I don't lean politically left, right, center, up, or down here because quite frankly my views are all over the map and I doubt any one policy or political standpoint would be enough to tie my...
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by David Aydt on November 23, 2007
The fight against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) continues on Capitol Hill as the downsides to shutting out other countries access to the online gamblers in the United States...
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by David Aydt on November 15, 2007
Annie Duke was on hand recently during the judiciary hearing concerning online gambling and online poker to offer some insight into the skill based information that poker players use while making...
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by David Aydt on November 08, 2007
Maybe the old days of lawlessness and hush-hush big stakes home games aren't a thing of the past tales as the Texan road gamblers have brought out in their Memoirs like Doyle Brunson. Recently the...
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by David Aydt on October 31, 2007
As many online poker players know there is a group from the Poker Players Alliance currently in Washington D.C. lobbying for our game to become legalized and regulated. As you'll see from the...
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by David Aydt on October 23, 2007
An online gambling CEO NOT arrested in the United States but somewhere else? With a report coming in from Pokernews.com , Unibet's CEO Petter Nylander was detained in Holland while attempting to...
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by David Aydt on October 13, 2007
Former US Senator, current Poker Players Alliance Chairman Al D'Amato recently sent out a sort of "State of the Union" email to those who are part of the PPA and are wondering what this...
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by David Aydt on October 09, 2007
"Why does this seem like gambling to you?" "Why do you think the same nine guys make it do the World Series of Poker final table every year, what are they the luckiest guys in...
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by David Aydt on October 03, 2007
Most people have a person or thing they would associate with fear or dread. If you're a professional golfer then facing Tiger Woods in your twosome on Sunday after leading for days would take some...
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by David Aydt on September 12, 2007
"It is illegal in North Carolina, I understand that. In every state, whether it's legal or not, people are playing poker." The quote above in an AOL story, is from "Michael"...
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Of course we're going to be a little biased here at KeepYourPokerFace when it comes to internet gambling laws and the current two-ton elephant of the UIGEA tangling over the head of every internet...
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