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I. Nelson Rose Columns

May Tribes Rake the Pot?
What is the difference between “and” and “or?” If the answer is nothing, then tribal cardrooms have a legitimate advantage over privately owned cardclubs. If, in fact, the words “and” and “or” are not synonymous, then Gov. Gray Davis illegally let tribes take too much from every pot. On March 7, 2000, the voters of California approved Proposition 1A, amending the State Constitution to allow federally recognized tribes to offer some specified forms of gambling, including banking card games.
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Florida will Re-Invent Poker
Florida is about to become the nursery for the birth of new poker games.
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Is it a Crime to Play Poker Online?
The biggest event in the world of Internet poker took place not online, but in a casino in downtown Las Vegas.
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Poker and the Law - MasterCard Wins Narrow Victory
MasterCard and Visa recently won a major victory in the Court just below the U.S. Supreme Court, declaring that they could not be sued for being involved with Internet gambling.
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Gambling and the Law™ - The World’s Only Gambling Court
Is compulsive gambling a disease? The prevailing view in the law is that gambling is a vice. Compulsive gamblers who destroy their lives may be pitied, but they are punished for their moral weakness, not treated.
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Gambling and the Law™ - If Betting Is Not a Crime Is It Legal?
In New York, it is not a crime to make a bet. But does that mean that betting in New York is legal?
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Gambling and the Law™ - Dealing With Card Counters
Casinos are the only businesses that make money by beating their own customers at games of chance. The operators of lotteries and parimutuel betting do not care who wins or loses...
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Gambling and the Law™ - Politics and the Laws of Gambling
Politics has always played a role in the making of gaming law. But one of the most blatant attempts to use, or rather to misuse, the political system in the name of “control” took place following the atrocities of September 11...
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Gambling and the Law™ - Gov. Davis Legalizes Gambling, Again!
California Gov. Gray Davis professes he is against the expansion of legalized gambling. He may be, but you certainly wouldn’t know it by his actions. He is responsible for making the following forms of gambling legal in the nation’s largest state...
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Gambling and the Law™ - The Day Congress Outlawed Sports Betting
Ater losing the Republican presidential nomination to George W. Bush, Arizona Sen. John McCain took up a new crusade: sports betting. The media reported McCain’s crusade as if this were the first time the federal government confronted Evil Gambling and Organized Crime...
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California Bill Would Bring Back Prohibition
This time, California is going after gambling on the Internet. The California law would actually go further than the old Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution only attacked the business end of the booze trade. The bill now pending before the California Senate would not only make it a crime to have anything to do with the business of Internet gambling — it also makes betting a crime...
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Busted for Betting Online?
Is gambling on the Internet legal? Some state and federal law enforcement officials declare flatly, “yes, it’s all illegal.”...
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