Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WAgers) released a study yesterday that showed the government would rake in $42 billion over the next 10 years if they regulated, rather than outlawed, interne... Continue reading "Congressman Jim McDermott Goes All-in With Poker Study"

Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WAgers) released a study yesterday that showed the government would rake in $42 billion over the next 10 years if they regulated, rather than outlawed, internet ... Continue reading "Congressman Jim McDermott Goes All-in With Poker Study"

Producing an episode for the World Series of Poker on ESPN is no easy task, even when you have several weeks to edit down the more than 15 hours of tape from one day and put it into a neatly wrapped package of two one-hour shows.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and more than 25,000 in Massachusetts, testifies today before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies calling for licensing and regulation of online poker.

A Joint Committee on Taxation report released today by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) found that regulating Internet gambling would generate roughly $42 billion over 10 years. The report is based on the requirement of a federal license for operators that would allow them to offer online gambling throughout the United States, while keeping the federal prohibition on any form of sports betting. "This ...

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LOS ANGELES -- John Legend is going to the World Series. Major League Baseball says the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter will perform the national anthem before Game Two at Yankee Stadium Thursday.

In defiance of the odds on a scale of, say, holding a royal flush, four of the nine players who will be sitting at the final table at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas are Jewish.

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