Hats off to the boys and girls at FuzionPoker.com This site is funny, and in a good way with lots of unique content with a very funny twist to it. If you haven't checked it out before it's worth a look as you are sure to find some unique content you haven't read before. Thanks to my good friend Cheryl for pointing the site out to me as it had been a while since I had been there.
If my memory serves me correctly this site originally remember this site from way back when it was looking to establish an online poker league, but that's not such an easy task as we have learned ourselves. Even with seriously nice prizes ($1000 over a 10 week period) in bonus prizes, the Kick Ass Poker League struggles to get 20 players per tournament for our modest $10 and $20 buy in events. Regardless, hats off to the team that keeps Fuzion Poker up to date and one of the funnier poker blogs I've came across in a while.
While I'm in a friendly linking mood I'll go ahead and give a shout out to one of the most entertaining poker writers you probably haven't heard about. He posts the funny, the made up, the outrageous poker news over at Melted Felt - The Other Side of Poker News... it's like The Onion except focused on poker. We'll also toss quick link out to your 5 minute poker fix called StacksBack that has every damn online poker bonus you could want and this site is packed full of poker tips for Full Tilt.
Enjoy the sites!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Poker Community Waits for 60 Minutes Story
The Poker Community is waiting to see the new 60 Minutes story.
60 Minutes plans to broadcast a story focusing on on-line poker. How this investigative report is to play out remains vague with speculation from the on-line poker community stating that this report could be either good or bad for on-line poker.
Which way will it slant? There is anticipation that 60 Minutes will portray on-line poker as a dangerous predatory place. Others hope that the story will encourage the United States government to want to regulate it as a productive industry instead of outlawing it under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act of 2006.
One of the contributors to the story is Georgia’s own Nat Arem. Nat is co-creator of thePokerDB (dashboard) which is available at Buffmagazine.com as well as having administrative duties at a leading online poker forum. Nat was instrumental in investigating and cracking the UB/AP Poker Scandals.
In the wake of the UB/AP Poker Scandals and the Bodog indictments and bank account seizures, internet poker is screaming for regulation. Hundreds of millions of tax dollars is wasted by the United States government in the midst of a back drop of record national debt. Hopefully, the result of the story will help result in the on-line poker industry going mainstream in conjunction with the lobbying efforts of the PPA (Poker Players Alliance)
In addition to the on-line scandal stories, Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes was in Las Vegas in July using the WSOP as a background for a segment of the story. There is file footage of Steve Kroft interviewing Greg Raymer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Chris Moneymaker and others as well as Dan Rather being schooled by a ring game veteran. Check out 60 Minutes: It's All About the Players
60 Minutes plans to broadcast a story focusing on on-line poker. How this investigative report is to play out remains vague with speculation from the on-line poker community stating that this report could be either good or bad for on-line poker.
Which way will it slant? There is anticipation that 60 Minutes will portray on-line poker as a dangerous predatory place. Others hope that the story will encourage the United States government to want to regulate it as a productive industry instead of outlawing it under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act of 2006.
One of the contributors to the story is Georgia’s own Nat Arem. Nat is co-creator of thePokerDB (dashboard) which is available at Buffmagazine.com as well as having administrative duties at a leading online poker forum. Nat was instrumental in investigating and cracking the UB/AP Poker Scandals.
In the wake of the UB/AP Poker Scandals and the Bodog indictments and bank account seizures, internet poker is screaming for regulation. Hundreds of millions of tax dollars is wasted by the United States government in the midst of a back drop of record national debt. Hopefully, the result of the story will help result in the on-line poker industry going mainstream in conjunction with the lobbying efforts of the PPA (Poker Players Alliance)
In addition to the on-line scandal stories, Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes was in Las Vegas in July using the WSOP as a background for a segment of the story. There is file footage of Steve Kroft interviewing Greg Raymer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Chris Moneymaker and others as well as Dan Rather being schooled by a ring game veteran. Check out 60 Minutes: It's All About the Players
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