Treasury Finalized UIGEA Regs - Page 39 - Poker Players Alliance

Whitewolf2k · 12-08-2008, 11:18 PM

I'm guessing this will cause alot of underground poker games. Not a good thing considering the security reasons

**TheEngineer** · 12-09-2008, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by GrannyMae

wow!!

engineer, what do you say about this? what's this mean?

Regulators 'Simply Gave Up' on Blocking Online Gambling

..... Last week Radley Balko noted that the Bush administration rushed to finish the UIGEA rules before its rule making authority expired, under the guidance of a former lobbyist for the NFL, one of the UIGEA's major backers.

The NFL announced a big layoff today.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3757152

NEW YORK -- The recession has hit the NFL.

The league said Tuesday it is cutting more than 10 percent of its headquarters staff in response to the downturn in the nation's economy.

The cuts were announced in a memo to league staff by commissioner Roger Goodell. The league is eliminating about 150 of its staff of 1,100 in New York, NFL Films in New Jersey and production facilities in Los Angeles.

Goodell said these were difficult and painful steps, but necessary in the current economic environment......