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I. Nelson Rose Gaming Guru - Page 13  The green felt revolution26 January 2007
In November 1979, the people of Czechoslovakia overthrew the Communist government in a bloodless coup, the "Velvet Revolution." In November 2006, the voters of the United States overthrew the Republican control of Congress. In part this was due to a "Green Felt Revolution." Poker players won the election ... (read more)
Lawyer's Poker15 January 2007
The idea behind Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers can Learn from Card Players (Oxford University Press: 2006) by Steven Lubert is simple: Take a bunch of poker stories and a roughly equal number of lawyer stories and mix them together to teach lessons about playing poker, practicing law and living a ... (read more)
Prohibition 2.012 January 2007
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, "Prohibition 2.0," has already caused as much panic, joy and confusion as the first Prohibition.
Prohibition 1.0, the ill-fated 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, went into effect in 1919 and was repealed in 1933. The "noble experiment," as it was called, was the 19th Century Puritans' efforts to end sin in the U.S. ... (read more)
Internet Poker Folds a Winning Hand16 December 2006
The fallout from the new Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 has been nothing short of amazing.
Every publicly traded gaming company is running for cover, and many of the private ones as well. Operators as big as PartyPoker and the payment processor FirePay stopped taking bets from the U.S. ... (read more)
The New Anti-Internet Gaming Law8 December 2006
Senator Bill Frist (R.-TN), doesn't want to be President - he wants to be Dictator.
Frist, the majority leader of the U.S. Senate used his position of power to ram through the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. He didn't even give the members of Congress a chance to read the bill. ... (read more)
Internet gaming law gets weird19 November 2006
The world of Internet gambling law has just gotten a little weirder.
The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee has approved bills by representatives Bob Goodlatte (R.-VA) and Jim Leach (R.-IA) to not only make operating any form of Internet gaming a crime, but also to try and stop the flow of ... (read more)
New York "anti's" blow it3 November 2006
The opponents of legal gambling, the "anti's," in New York were given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to outlaw all of the forms of betting they hate. They managed to get their case heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state. And they blew it -- big-time.
What's worse is that ... (read more)
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 Analyzed2 October 2006
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was rammed through Congress by the Republican leadership in the final minutes before the election period recess. According to Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), no one on the Senate-House Conference Committee had even seen the final language of the bill. ... (read more)
Slot Player Held To Be Professional Gambler, Can Deduct Losses24 September 2006
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a full-time handicapper of greyhound dog races could be in the "trade or business" of gambling for tax purposes. This May, the Minnesota Supreme Court went one step further holding, that a slot machine player could also be considered a professional gambler, even ... (read more)
Poker Tournaments In Bars -- The New Prohibition?17 September 2006
In January 1919, Prohibition became the law of the land, when the 36th state ratified the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
That state was Nevada.
The fact that it was Nevada that created the "noble experiment" in writing moral restrictions into law shows that this was truly a different ... (read more)
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