Finally, a pro-Internet poker article on Townhall.com
 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Colum...9a-edcb1da79d97

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Annie Duke, who testified at a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on Internet gambling, is not a typical poker player. A professional for 13 years, she is the biggest female money winner in the history of tournament poker.

Gregory J. Hogan Jr. is not a typical poker player, either. As his father, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Barberton, Ohio, explained at a House Financial Services Committee hearing last summer, "Gregory Jr. is currently in prison for a robbery he committed to feed his online gambling addiction."

While Annie Duke recognizes that most Americans who play poker do it for fun, not for a living, Pastor Hogan tends to over-generalize from his son's equally extreme experience with the game, which involved losing hundreds of dollars a day while playing 12 hours at a time. Hogan demands an addict's veto over Internet gambling: Because his son robbed a bank, he thinks, no one should be allowed to play poker online....

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Please post your opinion at the bottom of the article, if you'd like.

Re: Finally, a pro-Internet poker article on Townhall.com
 

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Colum...9a-edcb1da79d97

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Annie Duke, who testified at a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on Internet gambling, is not a typical poker player. A professional for 13 years, she is the biggest female money winner in the history of tournament poker.

Gregory J. Hogan Jr. is not a typical poker player, either. As his father, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Barberton, Ohio, explained at a House Financial Services Committee hearing last summer, "Gregory Jr. is currently in prison for a robbery he committed to feed his online gambling addiction."

While Annie Duke recognizes that most Americans who play poker do it for fun, not for a living, Pastor Hogan tends to over-generalize from his son's equally extreme experience with the game, which involved losing hundreds of dollars a day while playing 12 hours at a time. Hogan demands an addict's veto over Internet gambling: Because his son robbed a bank, he thinks, no one should be allowed to play poker online....

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Please post your opinion at the bottom of the article, if you'd like.

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Has anyone yet attempted to reach out to Tucker Carlson?

Annie is a nice counter "exceptional" to the norm, as is her testimony that your average player risk about $10 a week. It would be nice it "we" could get more "entertainment" players outfront in this "fight."

As it is "we" still seem to suffer from all out front people directrly making a living from poker, thus seen as protecting their livelyhood.

Other than Tuff, I don't know exactly how you get many people to proudly admit they consistently loose money at poker and are happy about that fact?!?!? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]



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Re: Finally, a pro-Internet poker article on Townhall.com
 

another one, this one on the WTO: www.townhall.com/news/us/2007/11/19/us_fights_wto_over_internet_gambling?page=full&amp ;comments=true

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With time running out, the tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda holds the cards in a dispute over Internet gambling that could ultimately cost the United States billions of dollars.

If arbitration efforts fail, Antigua and other aggrieved parties, including the European Union, could begin exacting sanctions as early as next month over the U.S. decision to withdraw from a World Trade Organization accord recognizing the legality of Internet gambling.

Antigua is seeking sanctions worth $3.4 billion, and has suggested it might claim that sum by becoming a harbor for pirated intellectual property such as movies and musical recordings. Total sanctions claimed by the EU, India and other countries approach $100 billion, although the United States, in negotiations, contends that appropriate levels of compensation would be far less.....

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