Top five lessons poker players learned from the Safe Ports Act
On September 30th, 2006, the US Senate passed the Safe Ports Act, which included provisions intended to slow the growth of online gambling. The whole experience was a very educational one for poker players - here’s a few highlights of the things we learned:
5) Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow and a dude who answers to “Hey Unabomber!” are not necessarily the guys you want to send to Washington to lobby for your cause.
4) Drunk, rambling diatribes left on your Senator’s office voicemail aren’t nearly as effective as drunk, rambling diatribes delivered in person at that Senator’s house.
3) There really isn’t an effective poker metaphor for the Senate Majority leader brazenly subverting the democratic process and attaching a sloppily written piece of law to a critical security bill. Somehow ‘Nice suckout, donk’ just doesn’t capture it.
2) No matter how many jokes we make about their teeth, the guards in the big hats who can’t move no matter what, or Hugh Grant, the British are way more advanced than us.
1) The only thing more rigged than online poker is congress.
