The Official Forum  

Go Back   The Official Forum > General / Off-Topic
Register FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Rating: Thread Rating: 6 votes, 3.67 average. Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 20, 2006, 07:02pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Western Mass.
Posts: 9,105
Send a message via AIM to ChuckElias
I heard this week that one of the new anti-terrorism bills that was just passed by Congress and is sure to get the President's signature includes provisions that prohibit certain electronic transactions between banks and online casinos. It doesn't make playing online poker a crime, but somehow it makes certain kinds of rewards very difficult to distribute. Phil Gordon was saying that it will almost certainly cause a drastic reduction in the number of entries into next year's WSOP. Online poker sites will no longer be able to give out a "free" seat. He said the days of $10 million prize pools are gone.
__________________
Any NCAA rules and interpretations in this post are relevant for men's games only!
Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old Fri Mar 02, 2007, 01:35pm
Lighten up, Francis.
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 4,686
From this week's Sports Illustrated:

Quote:
Admitted: By 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold, 38, that he broke several rules in the tournament last June. Gold, a TV producer who won $12 million, confessed to The New York Times that he helped a friend stay in the tournament by telling him what cards he had. Said Gold, who plans to play in the 2007 Series, "People are just going to have to trust me." A spokesman for the WSOP, Gary Thompson, says Gold won't be punished: "It is clearly a violation of the rules. . . [but] it's over and done."
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old Sun Mar 04, 2007, 05:07pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 5,687
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapper1
From this week's Sports Illustrated:
He just seems a little too shifty, even by gambling standards.

I don't mind rooting against him.
__________________
M&M's - The Official Candy of the Department of Redundancy Department.

(Used with permission.)
Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old Mon Mar 05, 2007, 12:15am
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: SW Kansas
Posts: 728
Hiatt? Ng?.......Pshaw......

It's Clonie Gowen for me, hands down.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:52pm.



Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1