Hopefully this one passes as well
 

I'm a big horse racing guy, but I also enjoy poker, and the revenue our nation is leaving on the table by not legalizing and regulating poker is sick.

If it does I actually might start betting again,

I assume Pinnacle opens back up to the US customers?

when i attempted to open an acct on tvg, it said arkansas wasn't allowed.
i opened a twin spires acct for the video, it didn't say a word about the state where i live. so, does that mean i can wager thru twinspires? or is it up to me, not twin spires, to police myself?

anyone know if you can get in trouble for wagering if it's not allowed by the state, since evidently it's not a federal ban?

VERY good news for the poker sites

Completely depends on the state you are in and the service you use. When I lived in NY, I couldn't open a tvg account either but had twinspires, nyra and capital otb. Now that I live in Virginia I can use my nyra account, but only over the phone, not online.

I assume not. It appears to me that CDI, MAGNA, YouBet and BetFair, Indians and Vegas casinos will get first dibs.

You can in Texas.
But they usually go after big fish,
not that you are a minnow. But sometimes
the big fish contain lists that have little fish.
My cousin got a bit of a scare. But the list
that was published in the paper did not contain
his name. And the people that did have their name
on the list did not get prosecuted. Only the operator
that got the transactions to go through this state
got prosecuted.

I can only go from prior experience but pre-2006 I could be anywhere I wanted, in any country despite being from an anti-gambling state, should a US law be passed would it trump the state laws? Would it allow me to open up with offshore books that are not pari mutual?

The article is obviously very brief with any details at this point.

From the article...

They will have to bring briefcases full of cash to Barney's favorite meeting place in order to get a license.

Harrah's has been planning for this and started an online division awhile ago. I assume other big players like MGM/Mirage and Foxwoods are already working on something too. I don't think this would open up offshores again but instead we would get a number of new US based sites.

A roman bath house!??!


Who would have thought Barney Frank would be good for something!!??!!

Frank has been trending libertarian on social issues (not surprising, given his status)--he recently came out in favor of legalizing pot as well, and I believe he introduced a bill to that end as well.

However, I suspect the chronic Jesusheads in the GOP will find enough paternalistic do-gooder liberals to form a coalition to block this.

I love the bizarre alliances we get on some of these issues--like the anti-pornsters are mostly Bible thumpers, but you get some militant manhating feminazis along for the ride, too.

What a country, as Yakov Smirnoff used to say (maybe he still does).

there is no real way anything can be blocked right now, the only way is really if back room dealings kept it from getting out of committee.

ok, thanks!

Like that enraged German sounding chick that screams stuff at me everytime I would restart my computer?

Sigh. Is she back again?

You never learn.

I think I have her in quarantine right now.

One of these nights if I get real drunk I might let her out.

When slots were on the ballot for Tampa, you had the Baptists in bed with the Seminoles, and PETA fellating both of 'em.... Strange bedfellows indeed.

The poker economy is in dire need of an influx of dead $. . .