http://www.metafilter.com/tags/lolfristaments Posts tagged with 'lolfristaments' at MetaFilter. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:06:09 -0800 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:06:09 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76989/Gamblers%2DAnomalous A <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848">long-brewing </a>online poker scandal reaches the mainstream: 60 Minutes Report (<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4639016n">1</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4635030n">2</a>) (<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/60minutes/main4633254.shtml">text version</a>) and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901679.html">two </a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/29/ST2008112902159.html">consecutive </a> front page Washington Post articles (by Pulitzer winning investigative journalist <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/gilbert+m.+gaul/">Gil Gaul</a>) (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/investigations/poker/?sid=ST2008112902159">plus</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/investigations/poker/time-scam.html?sid=ST2008112902159">lots </a>of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/11/29/GR2008112902729.html?sid=ST2008112902159">web </a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/investigations/poker/map.html">exclusive </a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/11/20/VI2008112002943.html?sid=ST2008112902159">content </a>about the <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/at_first_glance_joe_norton.html?sid=ST2008112902159">investigation</a>)! <a href="http://www.natarem.com/2007/10/17/absolute-poker-cheating-scandal/">Originally discovered</a> by high-stakes online <a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/the-absolute-poker-cheating-scandal-blown-wide-open/">math whizzes</a> on a <a href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/">poker forum</a>, news of the insider cheating by some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton">big </a><a href="http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/5173/russ-hamilton-reportedly-behind-ultimatebet-cheating-scam">names</a> in the game is coming out nationally just as the Bush administration moves <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/11/AR2008111102935.html">hurriedly </a>to implement <a href="http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/marches/us-moves-to-implement-rules-banning-most-internet-gambling-557380">a last-minute back-door crackdown</a> on <a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20081112b.htm">banks who enable the flow of money to gambling sites</a>, casting the industry even further beyond regulation that would help make such cheating impossible. But <a href="http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130125.html">perhaps </a>there is still<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/02/04/080204ta_talk_mcmanus"> hope</a> for online poker to <a href="http://erlc.com/article/gambling-regulations-win-out-but-game-not-over">eventually </a>be fair and as legal as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-UpI1Ct-dg">other areas of US private life</a>. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/65635/Poker-is-a-game-of-chance-But-some-chances-are-better-than-others"> Previously</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/55229/Internet-Gambling-on-the-way-out">and</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76989 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:06:09 -0800 60minutes cheating gambling lolfristaments poker scandal Potomac Avenue