HR 2366: The Online Poker Act of 2011

Congressman Joe Barton from Texas has just introduced HR 2366 The Online Poker Act of 2011 to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. This bill has been in the works for a while, and the poker community is very excited that it has finally been released. There is a...

Continue to Take Action for Poker

Cliffs: If you want help take action, go here, here and here to send prewritten emails to key politicians. ———————- As you probably already heard, the U.S. Department of Justice has blocked access to the three major online...

Skill vs Luck in Poker

An interesting article on this topic was recently published by Steven D. Levitt, well known economist and author of the following book: Emphasis is mine: Abstract: In determining the legality of online poker – a multibillion dollar industry – courts have relied...

Online accounts are safe, but keep up the political action!

Yesterday, all players with real money accounts at PokerStars and Fulltilt made a collective sigh of relief after the DOJ announced it would be facilitating player cashouts. I am starting a letter writing campaign to my Minnesota Representatives and Senators asking...

Working on my Poker Face -_-

As many of you have already heard, online poker has effectively been shut down in America for the time being. The DOJ has seized the domain names of the major U.S.-facing poker sites and indicted many of the owners. This news came with basically no warning and has...