OFF TOPIC THREAD!!! Dueling off topic baseball threads!!!

[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.

[Scrapper1]

From this week's Sports Illustrated:

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."

[M&M Guy]

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.

[DonInKansas]

Hiatt? Ng?.......Pshaw......

It's Clonie Gowen for me, hands down.