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Five Thoughts: Fourth Week of the 2011 World Series of Poker

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Ben Lamb

We’re already a month into the 2011 World Series of Poker, and the $50,000 Poker Players Championship and Main Event are right around the corner! There is still a lot happening in the preliminary events though, including name-calling, prop betting, and more headphone smashing. There’s also a new leader in the Player of the Year race, and, outside of the WSOP, a U.S. Congressman from the 6th District of Texas is trying to become online poker’s saving grace.

Let’s get in our thinking chair and think.

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To Joe Barton: Great that you are proposing a bill for online poker ... but probably too late.

The online poker wasteland being created by the DOJ stands a very good chance of extinguishing the current poker boom as it spreads. The DOJ has a fistful of indictments for other sites and this constant stream of legal actions, seizing of bank accounts, & bad press will give online poker a big enough black eye that it will affect the entire industry of poker, not only online sites.

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06-29-2011 14:45

flintsword (User Offline) Wrote 486 posts
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I believe Barton can save online poker but he will need to act fast.

Oh and Men Nguyen, he is so annoying.

06-29-2011 15:06

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