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[TheEngineer]

Mason on QuadJacks (12/21): http://www.quadjacks.com/2011/12/21/...ember-21-2011/

[TheEngineer]

• Webcast: “Short Stacked Radio’s PPA Weekly Update (12/23)” I come on at time point 29:48.
• Webcast: “Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny,” with PPA Board Member & Litigation Support Director Patrick “Skallagrim” Fleming (12/26)
• Webcast: “Short Stacked Radio’s PPA Weekly Update (12/27)” I come on at time point 1:24:55.

[TheEngineer]

WebProNews: Can Social Media Bridge the Gap between Poker Players and Lawmakers?

[TheEngineer]

• Webcast: “Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny” airs live each Monday at 8:30 PM ET on OnTilt Radio (listen live here).
• Webcast: “Short Stacked Radio’s PPA Weekly Update” airs live this Wednesday evening at 9:30 ET (listen live here).

Rich Muny part 1/2 | QuadJacks Poker Radio Thursday January 5 2012

Rich Muny part 2/2 | QuadJacks Poker Radio Thursday January 5 2012

[TheEngineer]

• OnTilt Radio: Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny, with guest PPA CO State Director Joe Michaels (1/2/2012) (listen here).
• QuadJacks Radio: I discuss the Wire Act ruling, intrastate efforts, and the efforts of the poker community in an hour-long, comprehensive interview. (1/5/2012) (audio only)

[TheEngineer]

• Short Stacked Radio: PPA Board Member & 2004 WSOP Champion Greg Raymer comes on at time point 28:00. (listen here).
• OnTilt Radio: Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny, with guest PPA CO State Director Joe Michaels (1/2/2012) (listen here)
• OnTilt Radio: Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny, with guests PPA Executive Director John Pappas and gaming tax expert Russ Fox (1/9/2012) (listen here)

[TheEngineer]

I'll be on Short Stacked Radio in 15 minutes: http://shortstackedradio.com/view/fu...en-ustream.php

[TheEngineer]

My Short Stacked Radio interview has been posted. I come on at time point 1:15:00: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20140754. You can listen from Facebook as well: http://www.facebook.com/rich****ny/posts/328013507243629.

[TheEngineer]

My OnTilt Radio show will start in a few minutes: http://audiorealm.com/play/107252/ONTILT

[TheEngineer]

I'll be on the Poker Connection, AM 1280 out of Sarasota, this evening. You can listen live at http://wtmy.com or via the OnTilt Radio simulcast.

[TheEngineer]

I'll also be on QJs at 7:30 pm ET to provide a quick update.

[TheEngineer]

Recent webcasts:

• ESPN: “Poker Edge,” with guest John Pappas (4/10/2012) (show site)
• KFNS 100.7 FM / 590 AM (St. Louis, MO): “The Final Table Poker Radio Show with Dennis Phillips & Paul Harris” with guest John Pappas (4/10/12) (download here)
• OnTilt Radio: “Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny,” with guest John Pappas (4/9/12) (listen here)
• WFTL 640 AM (South Florida): “Poker Action Line,” with guest Rich Muny (4/9/12) (listen here)
• OnTilt Radio: “SCBig’s Roundtable,” with guest PPA Board Member & Litigation Support Network Director Patrick Fleming (4/8/12) (listen here)
• WTMY AM 1280 (Sarasota, FL): “The Poker Connection Radio Show,” with guest Rich Muny. The interview starts at time point 0:40:40 (4/6/12) (listen here or here)
• “QuadJacks News,” with guest Rich Muny: The interview starts at time point 0:06:30 (4/6/12) (listen here)
• “The Bernard Lee Radio Show,” with guest John Pappas (4/6/12) (show site)

[repulse]

Here's a good new interview with Joe Brennan, Jr. on recent developments and momentum in federal and state internet gambling legislation:

http://cemaudioedge.com/episode/gami...st-stu-hoegner

I found Joe's perspective to be very interesting and discouraging. To attempt to paraphrase some of the points that really stuck with me:

Even IF legislators recognize that a poker-only approach would be best at the Federal level rather than state-by-state, none of them want to be seen as depriving revenue from their home states. Therefore, legislators are discouraged from a Federal online gambling bill, and momentum shifts to the state bills. Then, once things are confined to the state level, the revenue from casino gambling and lotteries gets way bigger than the potential revenue from poker, especially given that an intrastate player pool would limit the profitability of poker for a state. So poker could end up being an afterthought in the state bills in terms of how rules, taxes, laws are set. All while poker could have been much more successful and beneficial of a product if done at the state level, but its entanglement with traditional gambling and its being monopolized by traditional gambling interests ends up being worse for everyone.

Federal solutions allowing interstate pooling between states that pass their own laws would help this, but would still just take longer, and the state-by-state tax rates and regulatory structures could still end up being worse for poker this way.

Presupposed here is that a Federal all-gambling (rather than poker-only) solution may not be palatable. So, the most discouraging part of this to me is that, even if every legislator knew how poker is distinct from other gambling, with the momentum currently in place, they'd be serving their own interests better by keeping poker confined to tagging along behind casino gambling. Dunno if there's anything we can learn from this to try and shape the process.