The poster boy for anti-online poker is unashamedly buying up the US Republican candidates to make sure that his casino business is not damaged by states voting to make online poker legal. It is blatant and way over the top, however, the politicians who line up for the cash feel no shame about what they […]
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The Rights Of The Poker Player
As the latest setback to the comprehensive legislation of online poker in the U.S of A continues its tortuous path, I have recourse to think about the man who basically created the concept of ‘The United States of America” Thomas Paine. I wonder what he would think now about ‘….the pursuit of happiness…” when a […]
Full Tilt Affiliate’s Get Stuffed!
As you may know, life is very difficult at the moment. The economy is nearly anaemic, jobs are hard to come by, business is struggling and some are failing and going bankrupt. So when you here of a take over of a very successful company and the bills are not going to be honoured then you […]
Online Poker And The POTUS 2012 Election
It looks like that any meaningful legislation, legalising online poker in the US is going to have to wait until the elections on November 6th are over. The bi-partisan committee led by the softly spoken, but, deadly Harry Reid is having trouble getting the Republicans to support a joint effort to move ahead with legal […]
Reasons Against Online Poker
Sometimes a problem is not a problem when looked at a different point of view. Let me explain. If I saw a lightning bolt hit a tree did the tree make the choice to get in the way of a natural phenomena or did the tree have the right to exist in its environment without […]
In The Poker World This Weekend
While the world of poker at pokerknave.com had been somewhat suspended due to the Cheltenham Festival and The Six Nations Rugby tournament, it is time to take stock of the various attempts by various bodies to get online poker legalised in the US. Basically the governing bodies do not seem to be interested and we […]