| Rule Number One: Forget the luau. 'Luau' is Hawaiian for 'buffet,' and everybody knows to avoid those except when you're in a hurry and don't have time to be waited on. But there's nothing quick about these gastronomic shows, unless the Hawaiians dis read more |
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| I knew from the start that it would be an uphill battle convincing my many, many bosses that Full Tilt Poker, a primarily ONLINE poker site, should create the Wailea Open Poker Tournament on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Hell, if Disco Stu violates the t read more |
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| This will appear many days after I write this. I am sitting in a shaded cabana next to the pool at the Four Seasons in Maui, on official business for Full Tilt Poker. Why? It all goes back to Iowa, which in turn goes back to John Hennigan. At the read more |
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| I returned from Maui at 5 AM Saturday. (Coming soon: The Poker Player's Guide to Maui!) Rolling out of bed just before 3 PM, I checked to see how the Bay 101 WPT event finished. I was thrilled to see that Ted Forrest won it. I immediately thought ab read more |
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| And now the pitch . That's why you need to seriously consider joining the PPA. Politics is a dirty business and the PPA got a champion bare-knuckled brawler in Al D'Amato. Part of Al's power comes from being Al D'Amato but part of it still comes from read more |
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| III. Game On I was playing a poker tournament at the Wynn a few weeks ago when I mentioned something about online poker. The old codger in seat two said, 'Is that still around? I thought Congress outlawed that.' In future installments of this series, read more |
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| II. And We Still Lost 409-2 In the end, it didn't make a damned bit of difference. This is how politics really works. A couple of lawmakers behind the anti-online gaming bills already chose this as their pet cause. The reasons are myriad: honest b read more |
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| This is the first part of an unscheduled, irregular multi-part series about the legal status of online poker. [Because 'Mr. D'Amato Goes to Washington' is over 4,000 words, I have broken up Part I into four parts, all of which are being posted the even read more |
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| The Spanish gambling market is said to become worth around 39 billion euros by the year 2010, while the retail betting market is expected to grow to around 4.5 billion euros, more than 750% of its current size. The main growth driver is said to be the i read more |
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| Gibraltar has a lot to offer in the wake of the US restrictions on gambling companies. While the US industry was virtually wiped out overnight, Gibraltar and the rest of Europe are set to profit. As the fallout in the wake of the US law which bars Amer read more |
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