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Poker and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act Michael A
Hofstra Law Review Volume 35 | Issue 3 Article 19 2007 Check, Raise, or Fold: Poker and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act Michael A. Tselnik Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Tselnik, Michael A. (2007) "Check, Raise, or Fold: Poker and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act," Hofstra Law Review: Vol. 35: Iss. 3, Article 19. Available at: http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlr/vol35/iss3/19 This document is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons at Hofstra Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hofstra Law Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons at Hofstra Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Tselnik: Check, Raise, or Fold: Poker and the Unlawful Internet Gambling E NOTE CHECK, RAISE, OR FOLD: POKER AND THE UNLAWFUL INTERNET GAMBLING ENFORCEMENT ACT I. INTRODUCTION Gambling permeates throughout American society. One cannot watch television without stumbling upon a poker show,' listen to the radio without hearing the amount of today's lotto jackpot,2 or go on the Internet without encountering an advertisement for a gambling website. When one thinks of this country's history, the image of the frontier saloon with its raucous drinking and debauchery goes hand in hand with gambling, mainly poker. In nearly every state in the Union, to one extent or another, there exists some form of legalized gambling.3 With such an ever pervasive culture of gambling in this country, why is Internet gambling the bane that needs to be eradicated from modem society? The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 20064 ("Act" or "UIGEA") is only the most recent legislation passed by Congress in an attempt to curb the ongoing "problem" that is Internet gambling.5 Simply stated, the Act prevents those transactions that are deemed restricted from being settled through any financial institution, including banks and credit cards. -
The Game of Texas Hold'em 3
The Intelligent Guide to Texas Hold'em Poker Copyright O 2003 by Intelligent Games Publishing Book cover writing by Susan Kendrick Writing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner, or distributed through any medium, including photocopying, electronic data stor- age and transmission via the Internet, without written consent from the publisher. Exceptions are usage of brief quotations for the purposes of criticism and review. For information contact: Intelligent Games Publishing P. 0.Box 6705, Towson, MD 21285 Web Site: www.intelligentpoker.com E-mail: [email protected] Write the publisher for bulk price quotes. ISBN 0-9677551-2-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2003100272 Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication (Provided by Quality Books, Znc.) Braids, Sam. The intelligent guide to Texas hold'em poker / Sam Braids. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. LCCN 2003 100272 ISBN 0967755 123 1. Poker. 2. Gambling. I. Title. GV 125 1.B73 2003 795.41'2 QBI03-20008 I PLEASE NOTE: The material contained in this book is for informational pur- poses only. In no manner should this book be construed to offer legal advice on the issue of online gambling. It is the reader's responsibility to know and follow the laws that apply in his or her state and jurisdiction. Seek appropriate legal advice from a qualified attorney if unsure. The publisher does not endorse or guarantee any of the services described in this book. The reader assumes all risks and respon- sibility for his or her actions. If you do not agree with these conditions, you may return this book to the publisher for a full refund. -
Table Games Operations Plan Appendix A
HOLLYWOOD CASINO COLUMBUS TABLE GAMES OPERATIONS PLAN Date Submitted to the OCCC: 08/30/2019 Date Approved by the OCCC: 10/16/2019 TABLE GAMES OPERATIONS PLAN APPENDIX A 1 HOLLYWOOD CASINO COLUMBUS TABLE GAMES OPERATIONS PLAN Date Submitted to the OCCC: 08/30/2019 Date Approved by OCCC: 10/16/2019 Table of Contents General .......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Black Jack ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Craps ........................................................................................................................................................... 17 Roulette....................................................................................................................................................... 27 3-Card Poker with or without Progressive Jackpot ..................................................................................... 33 6 Card Bonus on 3 Card Poker: ................................................................................................................... 36 Crazy 4 Poker with or without a Progressive Jackpot ................................................................................. 36 Ultimate Texas Hold’Em with or without a Progressive Jackpot ................................................................ 40 Pai Gow Poker ............................................................................................................................................ -
Six Months to Go: Where the Presidential Contest Stands As the General Election Begins
May 10, 2012 Six Months To Go: Where the Presidential Contest Stands as the General Election Begins William A. Galston Table of Contents Summary 1 Where We Are Now and How We Got There 1 The Mood of the Country 3 The Issues 5 Ideology 7 What Kind of Election Will 2012 Be? 9 Referendum or Choice? 9 Persuasion or Mobilization? 13 It’s the Electoral College, Stupid 16 Conclusion: The Known Unknowns 22 Endnotes 23 SUMMARY arack Obama’s standing with the American people hit bottom in the late Bsummer and early fall of 2011. Since then, the president has recovered the political ground he lost during the debt ceiling fiasco and now enjoys a narrow edge over Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee. The standard political and economic indicators suggest that the 2012 election will be close. And the historic level of partisan polarization ensures that it will be hard-fought and divisive. William A. Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Since Vietnam and the Iranian hostage crisis, Republicans have effectively used the Chair in Governance issue of national security against Democrats. Barring unforeseen events, Romney Studies and senior will not be able to do so this year. Nor will a focus on hot-button social issues yield fellow at Brookings. significant gains for the challenger. Instead, to an extent that Americans have not seen for at least two decades, the election of 2012 will revolve around a single defining issue—the condition of the economy. In 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in large measure because the people saw him as more able to manage the economy at a moment of frightening crisis. -
President Trump and America's 2020 Presidential Election
President Trump And America’s 2020 Presidential Election: An Analytical Framework March 6, 2019 © 2019 Beacon Policy Advisors LLC Trump 2020 Meets Trump 2016 ___________________________________________________________ Trump 2020 Is A Stronger Candidate Than Trump 2016… • Looking purely at Trump’s personal standing in 2016 vs. 2020, he is no worse for wear, with the greatest change in his ratings coming from the consolidation of support among Republicans after two years of providing wins for his GOP base (e.g., deregulation, conservative judges) and currently having a strong economy and jobs market …But Trump 2016 Was A Weak Candidate (Who Happened To Face Another Weak Candidate) • Trump vs. Clinton 2016 matchup had the two most unfavorable candidates in a 60-year span • According to the 2016 exit polls, 18 percent of voters who had an unfavorable view of both Clinton and Trump voted for Trump by a 17- point margin – those margins were even higher in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida • Trump was the “change” candidate, winning voters who wanted change by a 68-point margin • Still, Trump only garnered 46.1 percent of the popular vote © 2019 Beacon Policy Advisors LLC 1 Trump’s Base Not Enough To Win ___________________________________________________________ Trump Is A Strong Weak Incumbent Heading Into 2020 Election • Trump’s political base of support – “America First” nationalists, rural farmers, and evangelical Christians – was necessary but insufficient to win in 2016 – will still be insufficient to win in 2020 • Trump’s -
Texas and Ohio: the End of the Beginning, but Not the Beginning of the End John C
The End of the Beginning, But Not the Beginning of the End DGAPstandpunkt Washington Briefing Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider (Hrsg.) März 2008 N° 4 Otto Wolff-Direktor des Forschungsinstituts der DGAP e. V. ISSN 1864-3477 Texas and Ohio: The End of the Beginning, But Not the Beginning of the End John C. Hulsman Hillary Clinton hat sich mit den Vorwahlsiegen in Ohio und Texas einen Namen als Harry Houdini im ame- rikanischen Wahlkampf gemacht. Die scheinbar unaufhaltbare Nominierung von Barack Obama durch die Demokraten nach elf siegreichen Vorwahlen in Folge ist gestoppt. Für dieses Zauberkunststück hat Clinton sich nicht gescheut, eine Negativkampagne gegen den Konkurrenten aus dem eigenen Lager zu starten: Obama wird dabei immer wieder als unzuverlässiges Leichtgewicht in Fragen der nationalen Sicherheit hingestellt. Das fortge- setzte Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen macht es für beide Kandidaten schwierig, die notwendige Anzahl von Delegierten für die Nominierung zu erringen. Diese Unentschiedenheit schadet den Demokraten enorm und spielt direkt in die Hände der Republikaner. Following supposedly pivotal Super Tuesday in early more often than Dracula). Stories appeared about the February, something rather surprising happened in disarray in her campaign, how they had blown through this roller-coaster of an election campaign: the Demo- $120 million dollars with precious little to show for it. crats seemed, at long last, to have decisively moved Why these folks had not even thought about a post- toward one of the party’s candidates. Barack Obama Super Tuesday strategy, so confident were they that won 11 straight contests, often by decisive margins. Hillary would lock up the nomination by then. -
2008 Democratic National Convention Brainroom Briefing Book
2008 Democratic National Convention Brainroom Briefing Book 1 Table of Contents CONVENTION BASICS ........................................................................................................................................... 3 National Party Conventions .................................................................................................................................. 3 The Call................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Convention Scheduling......................................................................................................................................... 3 What Happens at the Convention......................................................................................................................... 3 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS, 1832-2004........................................................................................................... 5 CONVENTION - DAY BY DAY................................................................................................................................. 6 DAY ONE (August 25) .......................................................................................................................................... 6 DAY TWO (August 26).......................................................................................................................................... 7 The Keynote Address....................................................................................................................................... -
Philosophy, the Federalist, and the Constitution. by Morton White. Eugene F
University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Constitutional Commentary 1989 Book Review: Philosophy, the Federalist, and the Constitution. by Morton White. Eugene F. Miller Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/concomm Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Miller, Eugene F., "Book Review: Philosophy, the Federalist, and the Constitution. by Morton White." (1989). Constitutional Commentary. 329. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/concomm/329 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Constitutional Commentary collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 202 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY [Vol. 6:115 fulfill "the preconditions of republican virtue." Indeed, "[w]hen sustaining republican virtue is the theme [of debate] the treatment [of those supporting adoption of the Constitution] is muted and sur prisingly incomplete." This bothers Lerner, but the justification, it seems to me, is quite plain: in a government intended to secure men in their natural rights, talk of inculcating virtue or molding man ners, morals, and beliefs grates upon the ears. So, too, does the word "regime" which Lerner uses repeatedly to describe America. In the tradition of political thought that term denied a separate sphere of private activity. It is not my purpose, however, to quarrel with Lerner over his desire to instill some virtue into the people and to borrow some of the attributes of a regime in doing it. What concerns me most is his attempt to draw the judiciary into what the framers considered to be the domain of the "political departments" of government, and to cite the most thoughtful framers in support of this project. -
PS 202 Summer 18 Week 5
PolS 202: Intro to American Politics Stephanie Stanley Week 5: Elections Agenda • Primary Election • Party Nominations • General Election/ Electoral College • Money in Elections • Citizens United and SuperPACS Pre-Gaming • “Green Primary” – Look for donors and sponsors – Party Insiders • File paperwork • Establish campaign – Hire personnel – Work out initial strategies – Announce candidacy It’s a Numbers Game Super-delegates: Democratic party, 716 unpledged delegates, made up of elected officials and party leaders Primaries and Caucuses • 2 ways to get delegates – Primary: direct, statewide process of selecting candidates; voters cast secret ballots for candidates; run by the state • Open Primaries: all registered voters may participate • Closed Primaries: voters may only vote for candidates from the party with which they are registered – Caucus: allows participants to support candidates openly, typically by hand raising or breaking out into groups, run by the party Super Tuesday • About ½ of the GOP delegates and about a 1/3 of the Democratic delegates are up for grabs • Primaries – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia • Caucuses – Colorado, Minnesota, Alaska (GOP only), Wyoming (GOP only), American Samoa (Dems only) Winning Delegates • Proportional – Most states will award delegates proportionally • Winner take all – Some states give all their delegates to the winner • Bounded/pledged delegates – At least during the first round of voting at the party convention, these delegates -
Toward Consumer Protection in the Gambling Industry Kurt Eggert
Maryland Law Review Volume 63 | Issue 2 Article 3 Truth in Gaming: Toward Consumer Protection in the Gambling Industry Kurt Eggert Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mlr Part of the Consumer Protection Law Commons, and the Gaming Commons Recommended Citation Kurt Eggert, Truth in Gaming: Toward Consumer Protection in the Gambling Industry, 63 Md. L. Rev. 217 (2004) Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mlr/vol63/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Academic Journals at DigitalCommons@UM Carey Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maryland Law Review by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UM Carey Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MARYLAND LAW REVIEW VOLUME 63 2004 NUMBER 2 © Copyright Maryland Law Review, Inc. 2004 Articles TRUTH IN GAMING: TOWARD CONSUMER PROTECTION IN THE GAMBLING INDUSTRY KURT EGGERT* I. INTRODUCTION ............................................. 218 II. THE RAPID EXPANSION OF LEGAL GAMBLING IN THE UNITED STATES ............................................ 221 III. THE SCOPE OF PROBLEM GAMBLING ....................... 224 IV. CALCULATING THE AVERAGE PRICE OF A WAGER .......... 232 V. THE ABSENCE OF EFFECTIVE PRICE DISCLOSURE FOR SLOT MACHINES ................................................. 235 VI. MANY GAMBLERS, INCLUDING PROBLEM AND PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLERS, WOULD LIKELY USE AND BENEFIT FROM GAMBLING PRICE INFORMATION IF IT WERE PROVIDED EFFECTIVELY .................................... 244 A. Informational Regulation of Gambling.................. 245 B. The Command and Control Approach to the Regulation of Gam bling............................................ 246 C. The Laissez-FaireApproach to the Regulation of Gam bling............................................ 248 * © Kurt Eggert, 2004. Associate Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law. J.D., University of Califor- nia-Berkeley (Boalt Hall). -
Name of Game Date of Approval Comments Nevada Gaming Commission Approved Gambling Games Effective August 1, 2021
NEVADA GAMING COMMISSION APPROVED GAMBLING GAMES EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2021 NAME OF GAME DATE OF APPROVAL COMMENTS 1 – 2 PAI GOW POKER 11/27/2007 (V OF PAI GOW POKER) 1 BET THREAT TEXAS HOLD'EM 9/25/2014 NEW GAME 1 OFF TIE BACCARAT 10/9/2018 2 – 5 – 7 POKER 4/7/2009 (V OF 3 – 5 – 7 POKER) 2 CARD POKER 11/19/2015 NEW GAME 2 CARD POKER - VERSION 2 2/2/2016 2 FACE BLACKJACK 10/18/2012 NEW GAME 2 FISTED POKER 21 5/1/2009 (V OF BLACKJACK) 2 TIGERS SUPER BONUS TIE BET 4/10/2012 (V OF BACCARAT) 2 WAY WINNER 1/27/2011 NEW GAME 2 WAY WINNER - COMMUNITY BONUS 6/6/2011 21 + 3 CLASSIC 9/27/2000 21 + 3 CLASSIC - VERSION 2 8/1/2014 21 + 3 CLASSIC - VERSION 3 8/5/2014 21 + 3 CLASSIC - VERSION 4 1/15/2019 21 + 3 PROGRESSIVE 1/24/2018 21 + 3 PROGRESSIVE - VERSION 2 11/13/2020 21 + 3 XTREME 1/19/1999 (V OF BLACKJACK) 21 + 3 XTREME - (PAYTABLE C) 2/23/2001 21 + 3 XTREME - (PAYTABLES D, E) 4/14/2004 21 + 3 XTREME - VERSION 3 1/13/2012 21 + 3 XTREME - VERSION 4 2/9/2012 21 + 3 XTREME - VERSION 5 3/6/2012 21 MADNESS 9/19/1996 21 MADNESS SIDE BET 4/1/1998 (V OF 21 MADNESS) 21 MAGIC 9/12/2011 (V OF BLACKJACK) 21 PAYS MORE 7/3/2012 (V OF BLACKJACK) 21 STUD 8/21/1997 NEW GAME 21 SUPERBUCKS 9/20/1994 (V OF 21) 211 POKER 7/3/2008 (V OF POKER) 24-7 BLACKJACK 4/15/2004 2G'$ 12/11/2019 2ND CHANCE BLACKJACK 6/19/2008 NEW GAME 2ND CHANCE BLACKJACK – VERSION 2 9/24/2008 2ND CHANCE BLACKJACK – VERSION 3 4/8/2010 3 CARD 6/24/2021 NEW GAME NAME OF GAME DATE OF APPROVAL COMMENTS 3 CARD BLITZ 8/22/2019 NEW GAME 3 CARD HOLD’EM 11/21/2008 NEW GAME 3 CARD HOLD’EM - VERSION 2 1/9/2009 -
Swing States, the Winner-Take-All Electoral College, and Fiscal Federalism
Munich Personal RePEc Archive Swing States, The Winner-Take-All Electoral College, and Fiscal Federalism Duquette, Christopher and Mixon, Franklin and Cebula, Richard The MITRE Corporation, Columbus State University, Jaclsonville University 9 February 2013 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55423/ MPRA Paper No. 55423, posted 27 Apr 2014 01:16 UTC Swing States, the Winner-Take-All Electoral College, and Fiscal Federalism by Christopher M. Duquettea, Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.b, and Richard J. Cebulac a The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA 22102 – USA; b D. Abbott Turner College of Business, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA 31907 – USA; c Davis College of Business, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL 32211 – U.SA. Corresponding Author: Richard J. Cebula, Davis College of Business, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FGL 32211 – USA. PH: 912-656-2997; FAX: 904-256-7467. E-mail: dr.richardcebula@gmailcom Abstract. There is a debate regarding the impact of swing or independent voters in American politics. While some argue that swing voters either do not swing or have a marginal impact on campaigns, the decline in voter partisan identification and the rise of independents means that they have a potential impact on elections, making them a desirable commodity to candidates. Additionally, presidential elections represent a unique case for swing voters. A robust literature notes that during the presidential primary and caucus process, voters in states such as Iowa or New Hampshire effectively have a greater voice in the election than those in other states. This is due to the number of voters in these states, and the strategic importance of having their primaries and caucuses positioned at the beginning of the presidential selection process.