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Post by Curtis Woodard on Mar 22, 2014 10:30:45 GMT -8
I'll post links to and descriptions of articles I have written for and published by Onlinepokerreport.com
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Mar 22, 2014 10:33:29 GMT -8
| Attention Online Poker Players: The World Is Run By Those Who Show Up
Internet poker players in the United States find themselves in their current predicament precisely because those who were opposed to internet gaming showed up, paid the price of admission, and got what they wanted from their government.
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Mar 22, 2014 10:35:17 GMT -8
| Attitudes Toward Online Poker Evolving in Washington State
While arguably the driving force behind the felony ban on Internet poker in Washington State (and the biggest obstacle to changing that law) there are indications that at least some of Washington State’s gaming tribes are looking at online poker in a different light.
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Mar 22, 2014 10:37:11 GMT -8
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Interstate Online Poker Compacts: Harder Than It Sounds As Internet poker moves along the state by state path, having enough players to sustain games is a top concern among both players and those entities offering games.
Interstate compacts are the oft-talked-about solution to the player liquidity woes of states with populations too low to sustain a strictly intrastate poker market.
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Mar 22, 2014 10:38:25 GMT -8
| It’s Pretty Obvious That The “FBI Letters” Make a Case For, Not Against, Online Gambling Regulation
An intense debate recently broke out on a Facebook post by Rich Muny, VP of Player Relations for the Poker Players Alliance, when political consultant Cheri Jacobus chimed in with opposition to efforts to regulate internet poker in the US.
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Post by Curtis Woodard on May 22, 2014 7:16:19 GMT -8
| The Washington State Gambling Commission’s Compelling Case for State-Regulated Online Gambling
In the left column, headed ‘Illegal Internet Gambling,’ they spell out the letter of the law, including citing the RCW Chapter and verse that makes it so. But it is the second column, headed “Gambling Online is Risky,” that I find so interesting.
It starts out with “Unlike other licensed and regulated gambling activities . . . “, which to me points to a lack of regulation as the reason for what is to follow.
Is this not an implicit statement that regulation would alleviate the following risks?
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Aug 7, 2014 9:01:24 GMT -8
| View: Networks Are the Way Forward for Regulated US Online Poker
Early in my involvement in advocating for state-level Internet poker legislation, what became clear to me was that the biggest hurdle to getting legislation enacted was not opposition from those against an expansion of gambling, but rather opposition from interests who fear being left out of a newly created market.
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Oct 2, 2014 9:47:25 GMT -8
| PokerStars, Washington State and The Bad Actor Clause Debate
So-called ‘bad actors’ clauses get a lot of coverage in poker media, and most view it as a thinly-veiled attempt to keep PokerStars out of US markets.
But is that really all there is to it? Is PokerStars merely a victim of anti-competitive legislation, or is there some validity to the claims that PokerStars was a ‘bad actor?’
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Post by Curtis Woodard on Oct 2, 2014 9:47:47 GMT -8
| Update: Legal Online Poker in Washington State
It was one thing when a no-name poker player (Bill Byers) was willing to sign on to James Thackston’s “I can prove collusion is possible in online poker” argument, but it’s another thing entirely for a Poker Hall of Famer and fairly well-respected player Dewey Tomko to sign his name on the dotted line of this abomination masquerading as legitimate research.
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