Any Texas Hold 'em players?

[Chewbacca]

On a more serious and related note... Are any of you fellow American players aware the House passed leglislation recently to ban most internet gambling, including internet poker?

It is now supposedly stalled in the Senate, it seems the billion dollar gambling industry woke up and started using some political clout.

I'm inclined to believe I have some sort of right to gamble.

In the first place ,I am hard-pressed to confine poker only to the realm of gambling. I see it from a perspective of game theory. It is like chess, only an equal element of chance is involved and you can't see your opponent's pieces. Anyway this is way over-simplified.

My point being is there is more to poker than just gambling, while poker would not be poker without it.

And on a yet another related note, I understand online gambling has been banned in Australia for some time now, but this ban is not enforced.

I can only hope our Big Brother/Mommy & Daddy-government hands us a paper tiger like that when the day comes.

[ 07-28-2006, 07:55 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]