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Poker After Dark Cash Game Season 5 Episode 67
AP Rakeback Dark Cash Game Season 5 Episode 67
In Episode 67 4/4 of Poker After Dark the Cash Game, you can see the amazing thought process in the eyes of Phil Ivey. Phil Ivey is regarded as the best Online Poker Skill Games player in the world right now and is coming into this cash game right after making it to the final table of [...]
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South Carolina poker call to action
I am naturally suspicious of people who use phrases like “call to action.” It’s one of those marketeer phrases that makes me cringe. That said, if you are a South Carolina poker player or one who travels here to play in some of the best home games around, you should be interested in this. Moreover, if you live in Greenville, South Carolina and don’t join me on Monday night, you don’t care about poker and your right to play it. Monday March 30 at 5:30pm, South Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell will be holding two public hearings on a bill that would legalize home poker games and also expand charity gaming (including charity poker tournaments) in South Carolina. I will be there and you should be, too. Here’s why. Every Monday night I play in the best home game I’ve ever known. The action is great, the location is perfect, and the players are great people. The game has been running for years and shows no signs of dying off. There are games like it all over the state–friendly folks who just want to play cards in a safe environment. Under South Carolina law, local law enforcement could come in at any time and cite every player for violating the state’s gaming law. That we’ve never been raided is no great comfort. Even though this is a friendly game where the only rake goes to pay for drinks and snacks, it is still illegal. And if you think the local constabulary won’t bust a game of this sort, you are sadly mistaken. Last month I covered the trial of five people who were playing in a $20 max-buy no-limit hold’em game in Mt. Pleasant. The max rake on the game was 50 cents and the house owner, according to several people who testified, stopped taking rake the moment he had enough to cover the pizza and beer. The players were put on trial and, despite the magistrate’s obvious distaste for the law, convicted. [See the April issue of Bluff Magazine for my article on the trial.] A few years back, I held what was then my annual Bradoween poker tournament. It was not a huge affair. We had 43 people from around the country in town and crowded into my small house. The buy-in was insignificant and I charged no juice. People from other states laughed at me when I took the buy-in cash to my neighbor’s house and left it there. They laughed harder when I programmed my police scanner to listen for a raid and put a couple friends outside to watch the door. If I had watched myself that day, I might have laughed, too. It was ridiculous. It was a game among friends that wasn’t even charging for the BBQ and sweet tea. Still, if the raid on a similar game in Greer (a nearby suburb) a couple months before was any indication, I stood an uncomfortable chance of getting busted. It had happened to one of my friends just weeks before. He’d been playing in a similar game and had been handcuffed in front of his wife and kids. To people in less-antiquated states, this probably seems inconceivable. The simple fact i this: playing any game with cards or dice in South Carolina (read: Monopoly, bridge, poker, etc) is illegal. President Pro Tempore Glenn F. McConnell, a Republican from Charleston County, wants to change that. His bill would decriminalize social gambling (including poker) in a private homes where no rake is taken. It would also allow for charity poker tournaments for churches and charities like the Lions and Elks Clubs. Opponents of the bill suggest that opening the door to kitchen table poker is the equivalent of opening up the state border to the likes of MGM and Harrah’s casinos. Nothing could be farther from the truth. You can read the full text of the bill HERE. The language is specific, more restrictive than even I would like, and would in no way allow for casinos in the Palmetto State. All of the above is to say nothing of the rampant hypocrisy surrounding the debate. South Carolina is a lottery state. The South Carolina Education Lottery program is lauded by many of the same people who fight against decriminalizing home poker games. It’s nearly impossible to go to a convenience store or turn on a T
V without seeing an ad for South Carolina scratch-off tickets or Powerball jackpots. Make no mistake: South Carolina is, in fact, a gambling state, as long as the state is taking the rake. McConnell held a hearing on his bill in Charleston last week. If news reports are to be believed, the pro-poker crowd outnumbered the anti-poker folks by 20-1. The Greenville hearing could be a lot different. The Upstate of South Carolina is a great deal more conservative than the Midlands and Low Country. In the past, I’ve seen giant protests over similar issues. Even the legislators are worried about bringing the issue to Greenville. Said Senator Robert Ford to Charleston poker players, “Y’all get a couple of buses. I’m always afraid of Greenville on these kinds of issues.” It’s my hope that we won’t need Charleston poker players to defend our rights to play in Greenville. I know there are hundreds of poker enthusiasts in the Upstate who care about this issue. The question is, do you care enough to show your support in public? You don’t have to speak. You don’t even have to give your name. You only have to show up. It won’t take but a couple hours out of your day. I know poker is a solitary pursuit, but the battle to legalize it is not. Don’t be the kind of player who complains but does nothing to remedy the situation. If you don’t show up, don’t complain about the law. When you finally have Republicans and Democrats agreeing something needs to be done about the antiquated South Carolina gambling laws, you know it’s time to give just a little bit of yourself. So, you coming? Monday, March 30th 5:30-7:30 pm Greenville County Council Chambers 301 University Ridge Greenville, SC 29601 The South Carolina Poker Players Alliance is trying to get a good idea on who might come. If you’d like to RSVP for the hearing, you can do so HERE. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment here or send them to my e-mail address: rapideyereality — @ — gmail dot com
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About Best No Deposit Casinos
If you are new to internet gambling and looking for a way to have a good time as well as explore this measure of entertainment, then you should take a look at casinos that will offer you free money to play without asking you to put forth your own money at the start. These are called no deposit casinos and there are many of them out there. You should do some investigating at sites that review these casinos and give you all the information that you need when it comes to the casinos themselves, what type of games they have at the casino as well as how you can use their free money.
Free money means that you are playing on the casino money and not your own. There are hundreds, if not thousands of online casinos. Some of them are full service casinos that offer the same variety of games that you are used to seeing at an off line casino. If you like hot casino action, you can take advantage of these casinos as well as the free money they are giving you to place a bet with them. When casinos offer free money to players, they are doing so with the hopes that the players will want to continue playing with them at the casino.
You should take a good look at the casinos that are offering the free money before you accept the bonuses that they are offering. You can also discover more about the casinos by reading reviews about them. You can find an internet site that will teach you everything that you need to know about the casinos and then make your decision from there as to which you want to visit. Take a look at whether or not they are using software that is compatible with your computer, if you have to download the software or play with a flash player or if the software will work with your system. After that, you can narrow your search as to which of the casinos will be the best for you when you are playing and looking for free money.
In addition, you need to know what the free money is for when you are using it for casinos. You are going to want to know how you can use the free money in the casinos and which games it will let you play. The money is only good if you can use it to play the games that you want. You are better off to use casinos that have the biggest variety of games, even if they are giving less free money than other casinos that may prohibit the type of games that you can play when you are using their bonuses. The more freedom you get when it comes to the casinos and how you can play, as well as the games that they offer, the more fun you will have when you are entertaining yourself with internet gambling. You want to be sure that you have a good time when you are gambling online and make the most of any bonuses offered.