Under pressure from the federal government, Google and Yahoo both announced that they would no longer accept advertising from online casinos. The new government strategy for putting a halt to online gambling is to threaten those who advertise the services of the casinos. As nearly all casinos are set up in countries outside of US …
I just got done reading Pauly’s post over at the Tao of Poker and I have some mixed thoughts on it. To give the background (in case you didn’t read the link), Pauly has made it into the final rounds of a satellite tourney for a seat at the WPT tourney at the Bellagio. Total …
I’m a big fan of both HDouble’s The Cards Speak posts as well as Chris Halverson’s blog. Good to see Hank was able to show Chris a good time while Chris was out visiting Los Angeles. A few of Hank’s comments made me want to comment: I left up $90 after only 15 minutes. Since …
I recently wrote about trying to bypass bans on gambling imposed by foreign governments. Well, I’ve been totally foiled. I thought I might be able to get around the government IP bans by doing some SSH port forwarding but I can’t even SSH into the box from the ISP that I’ve been attempting this from. …
A fellow poker fiend and former co-worker of mine, Mark, sent me this link about the World Trade Organization ruling that the US’ online-gambling ban violates international trade laws. Of course, the US plans to appeal the ruling because they have to protect the state lotteries and the political contributions from the Indian casinos but …