Obama as a Poker Player

Just got my PPA newsletter today. Here's the link to one of the articles they featured, which is quite long but a fascinating and worthwhile read.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/23684773/Obama-as-a-Poker-Player-National-Journal-Magazine-12-05-09

I am not an Obama fan, but I did enjoy the article nonetheless. Thank you for posting it. I did want to comment on a couple of the sections, but they have it set up so you can not copy, cut, paste, etc; Therefore I will not because I'm too lazy to retype it. LOL! I was also going to try to post it for those that might have trouble reading it, as is, the print is small.

Just take a screenshot

I know there's a race card joke in there somewhere but just can't see it...

nice read...maybe he would make a better poker player than world leader

Wow I am super busy right now I may read that article later if time allowed. It does seem very interesting, knew that Obama was a poker fan (he met phil ivey, and daniel negreanu and knew both of thier names). If I had to say the type of player Obama would be is maybe a very patient and cautious player would probably pay a lot of attention to the other player and react off of him when he was confident in his read(so maybe would have trouble against a player that could always change gears easily and dominate 1 style players). That is just my opinion but again this seems very interesting.

j_unatrix said:

knew that Obama was a poker fan (he met phil ivey, and daniel negreanu and knew both of thier names). .

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If thats true why doesn't he get off his ass and do something useful by scrapping the stupid online poker laws in America, which make it harder for people to deposit and withdraw money.

Xavier said:

If thats true why doesn't he get off his ass and do something useful by scrapping the stupid online poker laws in America, which make it harder for people to deposit and withdraw money.

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Just about every president in history has played poker, some were obssessed with it. See my blog (in sig) for a short article on it or google presidents and poker...

I hope he does the right thing too. I imagine right now they want to keep status quo until they figure out how to tax it...

I don't believe the Law allows Obama to just go and drop the UIGEA as most people seem to believe. Just as Obama can't just make up any law he wants. The UIGEA was "snuck" into the Safe Port Act at the last minute because republicans knew they wouldn't get it passed any other way and knew they were losing the White House and Congress.

*Also, the UIGEA doesn't make it "illegal" for US citizens to play poker. It will just make it harder for us to deposit which I don't do anyway so I could careless.

StormRaven, you can click the Download link at the top of the page, get the whole article as a text file or acrobat file and then copy n paste.

*AH, but you must sign up to that damned site first, blarg

suit2please said:

*Also, the UIGEA doesn't make it "illegal" for US citizens to play poker. It will just make it harder for us to deposit which I don't do anyway so I could careless.

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Won't there be less weak players though if its harder to deposit, because all the good players will still make the effort to get round it, whereas a weak casual player may not bother if its a big hassle.

Hmm, good point, well the deadline for banks and other financial institutions to comply with the UIGEA has already been pushed back which seems like a good step. Removing a lot of the gambling american public from the poker tables could easily lower the amount of weak players, which is a bad thing imo.