Articles Of Interest - 1.

I spend a fair amount of time covering the poker forums and searching out articles of interest to me (and by definition) poker players the world over so I thought I'd start a regular blog pointing all my readers (all 3 of you) to some of the more interesting newspaper & blogs that I come across.

There could be a weekly magazine in this you know :)

Anyway to start things off lets start with some news from Ireland (where I live)...

Interesting news this morning from the Irish Independent newspaper.

As we all know (or maybe you didn't) 'casinos' in the Republic are illegal under the 1956 gaming act here. Since Mr Dermot Desmond (wealthy Irish businessman) has opened his €6.5M club in the heart of Dublin the government here have now decided it may be time to investigate them with a view to closing the lot down.

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Article 2.

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In other news another blogger by the name of PokerBastard (now thats original) has written about his views on London's Gutshot club. The club is currently due in court on Nov 22nd to face charges of running an 'illegal gambling operation'. Now of course in places like New York, where Mr Plod (the police) simply turns up and confiscates the entire property there is a very clear law which states that playing poker IS illegal and thats that. In the UK, its a slightly more grey area and so this case will, for once and for all, clarify the Gutshots (and other similar outfits in the UK) operation.

If the law says the Gutshot club is illegal then I would expect all such similar outfits to be closed by Xmas. If, on the other hand, the law decides otherwise then expect every street corner to have a 'card club' by Xmas 2006!

I'm highlighting Pokerbastards view of things cos he's a funny guy who likes to stir things up although I've no clue to his identity!

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The WSOP 2005 main $10K event is going down a storm on ESPN. For us Europeans though we usually have to wait months to see it on SKY TV. Luckily for us with broadband access to the Internet we have TORRENTS...and I'm happy to point all my readers to Tillermans blog where you can follow the links from his blog to pick up the latest episodes.

For those of you unfamiliar with TORRENTS and how they work then take a look at my post on the Hendon Mob forum entitled 'The Dum Dum Guide To Getting Chris Ferguson In A Fridge'