Congressional Hearing for H.R. 5767

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Today, there will be a hearing in the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. On their agenda is the Barney Frank and Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 5767 Payments System Protection Act. If you’re so inclined, you can watch a webcast of the proceedings! Unfortunately, I’ll be running errands most of the day [...]

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New PPA Website and Video

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The Poker Players Alliance has a new website and man does it look great. Its a Wordpress-based page and its given me some ideas on how to update some of my other sites. (I expect this one will remain as it is for now.) If you’re already a member of the PPA, [...]

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Why Everyone Should Worry about UIGEA

January 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

FoxNews.com has an excellent article, Internet Gambling Ban: Why You Should Oppose It, explaining why its not just us poker players and gamblers (punters if you prefer) that should be worried about this legislation. The enforcement of this law will require an unprecedented amount of power to be given to industry and the government [...]

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