[MicroBob]

thanks for posting the article by the way....i haven't had a chance to read the online NYT lately and missed this.

i think it's a reasonably fair assessment of the situation...although i wouldn't have minded some quotes from the successful poker players along the lines of "it's great....i choose my oown hours....i make more than i do at my own job....i get to be my own boss."
they didn't really have this...they just pointed out that they are making decent money.


channel-surfing on the radio while driving yesterday i heard an extremely pompous and negative story about online gambling on a Christian-Radio-News segment and the glorious fight to 'ban these illegal off-shore sites'. hmmmm.


betonsports.com now has a pop-up window for an online petition you can sign to support the right to place a wager on the internet.
i think the only reason the poker sites WOULDN'T want to do this is because they don't want to draw any attention the fact that there is some debate regarding the legality.
lets face it....there are a number of fish who are playing right now who have no idea it is with an off-shore site or that there is any potential legal cloud surrounding it.
the negative publicity surrounding online-gambling may temper the growth of the business some.....i understand this kind of legal-cloud publicity had a similar effect on downloading CD's on napster and the like.