Front Page of the Jacksonville Paper Yesterday

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Article titled, "Online poker's Black Friday" was on the front page (above the fold) of the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville's main newspaper). It was an AP story by Daniel Yee (Atlanta). The story mainly focused on players in the U.S. yanking their money out of their online accounts.

It had the following quote from Nolan Dalla, "It was really the Black Friday of the poker industry. This is clearly going to hurt the game, its players and people in the industry." I'm not really sure why Dalla is coming out with quotes like this. I would think the spokesman for the WSOP would want to downplay this legislation and pointout its flaws as opposed to his "the sky is falling" approach.

Anyway, pretty sad that you can pass a bill that really has very little bite to it and then have dumbshits in the press (and people like Dalla) help your cause by giving the appearance that there's more to this bill than there actually is.