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The 2009 WSOP is sick, sick, sick
When you look at the 2009 WSOP Player of the Year leaderboad, you’ll find not one, not two, but three multiple bracelet winners. If you told Phil Ivey at the beginning of the summer that he’d win two bracelets and have five cashes and only be in third place for POY, he’d have spit up his milk in your face. A quick peek at the top five:
- Jeffrey Lisandro: 355 pts, three bracelets in three different stud variations, six total cashes
- Ville Wahlbeck: 275 pts, five total cashes including a first, second, and third
- Phil Ivey: 242 pts, two bracelets, five cashes
- Brock Parker: 220 pts, two bracelets (back-to-back events), five cashes
- James Van Alstyne: 220 pts, one bracelet, three final tables
As you can see, the competition for POY has been intense. Including the aforementioned, Roland De Wolfe, Vitaly Lunkin, Daniel Negreanu, and Daniel Alei are all in the top 15 and have been playing extremely well. We’ve already witnessed history more than once; with two weeks of poker still remaining, how many more records will be broken?
“The current draft of the bill that has been made public is in five sections, the first of which contains declarations of findings regarding the current status of online poker in California. Noting the existence of “2,300 Internet gambling websites operat[ing] outside of the United States” and arguing that “the presence, operation and expansion of offshore, unlicensed and unregulated internet poker sites available to Californians endangers the current and future economic health of California gaming establishments,” the case is made for regulation of online poker in California.
“The bill proceeds to note how the UIGEA has done nothing to curb Californians’ access to unregulated poker sites, and argues that since the UIGEA does allow individual states “to permit Internet gambling within their own borders under certain conditions,” the bill is therefore proposing a process by which such regulation can be pursued. This interpretation of the UIGEA may well prove one of several matters that will be debated by legislators subsequently considering the bill.”
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