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California Pushing To Legalize Online Poker in California

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:31:16 +0000

Sen. Rod Wright just recently proposed a bill that would allow California residents to play online poker LEGALLY, but only at California run online poker rooms. The proposal is designed to bring some much needed revenue to the state. Basically it works something like this, if the bill is accepted, up to 3 companies get to bid on contracts to create these new online poker rooms. If it’s signed by the governor it will go into effect immediately, and the bidding / designing process can begin. However, it could possibly take years for the poker sites to actually be up and running due to legal loopholes and government bureaucracy.

Here’s the odd part about the whole thing – with the UIGEA Act going into effect on the First of June, poker players are going to be forced to find new ways to make deposits online (and yes, the poker rooms will find ways to let you deposit, they want your money and know you want to play. Think of it like Prohibition of Alcohol, people like to drink so speakeasy’s came into existence. The more regulations made, the more loopholes people will find around them.) So in California’s proposed bill, Californians must play on the California only poker rooms so California can tax them. So basically your competition would be the exact same guys you currently run into at the Indian Casino, only now you won’t have to leave your house to go talk to them. No more beating people in other parts of the world, nope, just California. It’s a great idea as a concept but without other states signing on, I doubt it’ll see much revenue as players can still just simply go through a loophole to play online at sites such as Full Tilt or Cake, without having their earnings taxed.

I gotta say I think its a really good idea on paper, and I’m glad to see a state finally stepping up to the plate to try and make a goal at legalizing online poker, but at the same time I feel it’s a long way from where it should be. Letting Californians only play against Californians doesn’t sound as much fun. You’ll have way less people online at a time so games will be further and farther between, especially during the wee hours of the night. Good initiative but the execution is far from there. Players want to play when they feel like playing, if you only allow those of us in CA who actually sign up for the CA game, well, the site will suffer from a lack of players and we’ll all head elsewhere.

It’s also worth mentioning that both New Jersey and Florida are looking at introducing similar bills to their states as well. If Florida, New Jersey, and California all teamed up on the same network (similar to say the Cereus Network {consisting of Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet}, Cake Network {Cake Poker, Unibomber Poker, Doyle’s Room and many others}, etc where several poker rooms all operate on the same server then they could really have a shot at this as each state would collect the taxes from their states players but you’d actually have a good amount of people playing online at any given time. 3 states playing on one server would be way, way better than each state having their own poker network designed only for their state. Just my two cents on that one.

Currently no taxes are being collected from any of the online poker sites as the US thinks poker is bad and wants to go after the card rooms as a whole. Some states including Washington, have even gone as far as to declare people playing online poker to be Class C Felons, on par with some fairly serious crimes.

Will online poker ever be designated as a legitimate past time activity? In my opinion no. As long as the granny state continues to oversee everything we do and tries to protect us all from the “evils of the world” we’ll continue to see poker deemed a criminal activity only participated in by hooligans, criminals, thieves, rapists, and drug addicts (which couldn’t be further from the truth.)

Anyway to read a more unbiased report of what’s going on head over to California Introduces Internet Poker Bill

Protect your poker winnings with the poker money clip

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:39:22 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGBJXQo2Hs

Yes, that’s right that robber got ahold of the wallet quite easily. Why? Because the wallet was a decoy of course. Why carry around an item that thieves love to steal when you can keep all your poker winnings in your poker money clip? Protect your cash, use the poker money clip. Keep your credit cards at home, avoid falling into the pit of despair of credit card debt. Manage your money. Spend what you have to spend. Use cash.

Added edge to your game

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:05:57 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8DFVbd32wg

The music sets the tone, the player with the card guard is mopping the floor with his opponent.

Poker stocking stuffers

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:22:12 +0000

As the holidays are quickly approaching its about time to throw the royal flush of spades into the pool of poker stocking stuffers. The money clip not only holds your cash, works as a card cover, it also sits quite nicely in (certain) hats and works well as a pendant for a necklace or chain as well. Depending on what kind of poker product you are looking for, the royal flush may fit all your needs.

No, it can’t be read like a book, watched like a movie, or carry all your poker chips, but it is quite the poker novelty and a great addition to any serious poker collection.

To ensure that no one breaks their wallet when shopping for their poker loved ones, the royal flush will be on sale starting Black Friday. Orders of 3 or more money clips will be made available as in the past, our customers have wanted to share the money clip with many of their loved ones.

With 4 different uses and counting, the royal flush of spades may be the best versatile poker stocking stuffer on the market today. That’s just my opinion anyway.

So head on over to poker money clips to complete your holiday shopping.

Poker Money Clips PreSale on now!

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:23:11 +0000

Ready to pick up your poker money clip? This is a great poker novelty to pick up for yourself or a loved one. Makes a great conversation starter. Visit Order your money clip now to order! Supplies are limited so hurry!

The Top 10 Reasons To Order A Poker Money Clip

Note: This list is more for comedy than a real list as to why you should order a poker money clip.

Because your spouse doesn’t approve of “gambling” and knows how much money you have in your wallet at all times
Because your rubber band broke trying to hold your “gangster’s roll in place
Because that guy who wants to mug you doesn’t know all your money is in your money clip
Because you want to take a set amount of money with you to the casino and leave your credit card(s) at home (you’re a responsible gambler)
Because you booked your Vegas trip online (thus it’s already paid for) and know better than to take your credit card with you to the casino (thus avoiding the dreadful swiping away of the kid’s college fund at the withdrawal machine)
Because Money just looks cooler in the money clip than in your wallet
Because you hate reaching into your back pocket to buy back in to your poker game
Because you hate reaching into your back pocket to put away your poker winnings
Because you already own all the other cool (and not so cool) poker merchandise
Because you want a unique card cover

Facebook Poker Introduces the skill meter

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:40:56 +0000

Well, that’s a lie, its not really a skill meter. It’s more of a “how many hands have you played” meter. It doesn’t take into consideration how well you play or anything like that, it just keep track of how often you play.

Think Mafia Wars, Ninja Clash, or any of those other games where you click a button and you get experience points. That’s how this Facebook Poker meter works. You sit at the table, fold, fold, fold, and you get points. They give you experience for sitting, not for playing well, which I personally think is just downright retarded. Wow, I folded a hand and I got 5 experience points. Great. Not.

I was hoping the meter would actually be good, but alas it doesn’t take anything into consideration except how long you sat at the table.

What do you want to see next?

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:39:03 +0000

Ok, so I have determined that something needs to be added to the Poker money clips network. Right now the topics I’ve come up with are

A forum where people can discuss all sorts of poker stuff……. (done this in the past, it was called Cards, Booze, and Smoke…. it wasn’t very popular)
A Poker Radio show aka a poker podcast (never tried this before, have all the stuff to make it happen, just need something to rant about)
A paid members only section featuring all sorts of cool stuff for people to access….

That’s what I’ve come up with so far. Feel free to e-mail me at webmaster at pokermoneyclips dot com with suggestions, ideas, etc.

Easy come, easy go

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:02:36 +0000

Well my lotto ticket experiment just took a turn for the worse. I spent $28 on scratcher tickets today after a buddy of mine told me he won $210 the day before. So I went on a spree throughout town. I won absolutely no cash and I won a total of 3 tickets. I had a total of 17 tickets. So let’s do the math really quick. It somewhere around 1 in 5 wins a ticket and 1 in 11 wins cash. So I had 17 tickets and I won 3 tickets. The breakdown on that would be about 18% which is slightly lower than 1 in 5. We’re off about 2%. Then again, its 1 in 5.something so the #’s may be dead on today.

No WSOP coverage from Poker Rants

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:04:50 +0000

The reason I am not doing WSOP coverage is simple, I don’t have any television channels. I’m limited to Poker After Dark (if that’s even on any more) and the show with Vince Van Patton that I haven’t watched in years being that its typically re runs. No other reason than I have a bad television package.

Fossil Man Greg Raymer

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:46:05 +0000

The Fossil Man is a player I definitely do respect and here’s why. He placed 3rd in the $40,000 No Limit WSOP event this year. He has a bracelet. So Raymer is one of those players who cannot be considered a fluke *cough moneymaker cough* as Raymer actually makes final tables and has proven he has “staying power.”

That’s what I feel makes a good player. Do they have staying power. If the answer is yes then yeah they’re good. Think of the players you hear a lot about. They know how to play and its not a fluke they keep making final tables. When the name is rarely heard then either A) they aren’t good or B) they don’t play often. It’s usually A.