Bluff's 20 Most Influential People in Poker/Preet Bharara #5

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Every year, bluff Magazine conducts a poll to determine what they call "The Power 20". This year's list appeared the March Issue--when I saw that Preet Bharara was #5 I almost fell off my chair. Only the first paragraph outlining the reasons people were chosen appears online. The full descriptions were released via twitter which I don't do, but I subscribe to the magazine so here's all that was written about him:

"#5 – Preet Bharara
U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York

The inclusion of Preet Bharara might be the most controversial on the list this year. Voters were asked to include people whose influence on the game or industry were mostly positive. Considering that Bharara is the person leading the DOJ shutdown of online poker in the U.S. it’s hard to believe he got votes, let alone enough to make him #5 overall.

That however is short sighted thinking. While Black Friday had an immediate negative impact on poker and poker players in the United States it may have gotten this market, poker's largest, closer to a regulated environment and that means, among other things, protection for the consumer in a market that previously had zero rules and little recourse for players cheated out of their money.

Bharara also deserves some credit for exposing Full Tilt Poker for what it was--a poorly run business that was making millionaires out of a select few owners while being unable to pay players who legitimately won money on the site. Bharara is also going to have a hand in negotiating the sale of Full Tilt Poker to Bernard Tapie Group"

What do you think?

http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-2012-bluff-power-20-pokers-most-influential-people-26246/
 
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He's always cast in a negative shadow but some of the stuff he's done has definitely helped our chances overall for regulation in the US.
 
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He's always cast in a negative shadow but some of the stuff he's done has definitely helped our chances overall for regulation in the US.

Not intentionally. So he's getting props for some good coming out of his greedy hands? Not by me. I can't even stand to see his face. And everyday I can't play stars or FTP reminds me of him. I hope he and Frist and Kyl rot in hell together.

As for exposing FTP-I'm not sure there would have been a problem if Preet didn't keep seizing OUR money from the payment processors.

Granted, the fact that FTP didn't keep our funds separate is unforgiveable, but Preet didn't even mention that in his "ponzi scheme" headline grabber.
 
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Feel free to hate those 3 as much as you want. However, eventually we were going to have to move towards regulation because US players weren't going to be able to survive forever with the way things were. While it has really sucked since Black Friday we are moving towards a very positive landscape so it's not all bad.
 
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Feel free to hate those 3 as much as you want.

Thanks, I will.

However, eventually we were going to have to move towards regulation because US players weren't going to be able to survive forever with the way things were.

We were surviving just fine until 2006. Hence my hatred for Frist and Kyl.

While it has really sucked since Black Friday we are moving towards a very positive landscape so it's not all bad.

It actually started sucking in 2006. We all had funds tied up in neteller for months when they got seized. While I hope your optimism is justified, I'm slowly losing faith that things are going to change. I thought we had a chance, but now it doesn't look like anything will happen this year and no friends of poker will be in the White House next year. And we will have lost Frank and Paul. My state replaced pro poker legislators with opponents of "gambling" in the last election.

Poker players are a small minority and only a small minority of them are doing anything to support the regulation effort.
 
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Every year, Bluff Magazine conducts a poll to determine what they call "The Power 20". This year's list appeared the March Issue--when I saw that Preet Bharara was #5 I almost fell off my chair. Only the first paragraph outlining the reasons people were chosen appears online. The full descriptions were released via twitter which I don't do, but I subscribe to the magazine so here's all that was written about him:

"#5 – Preet Bharara
U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York

The inclusion of Preet Bharara might be the most controversial on the list this year. Voters were asked to include people whose influence on the game or industry were mostly positive. Considering that Bharara is the person leading the DOJ shutdown of online poker in the U.S. it’s hard to believe he got votes, let alone enough to make him #5 overall.

That however is short sighted thinking. While Black Friday had an immediate negative impact on poker and poker players in the United States it may have gotten this market, poker's largest, closer to a regulated environment and that means, among other things, protection for the consumer in a market that previously had zero rules and little recourse for players cheated out of their money.

Bharara also deserves some credit for exposing Full Tilt Poker for what it was--a poorly run business that was making millionaires out of a select few owners while being unable to pay players who legitimately won money on the site. Bharara is also going to have a hand in negotiating the sale of Full Tilt Poker to Bernard Tapie Group"

What do you think?

http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-2012-bluff-power-20-pokers-most-influential-people-26246/


I think some good comes from all bad things , but you don't give the credit to the bad thing for it . :eek: I give him #1:bird:



haven't read very much on her story but was surprised to see Annie duke on the list . there was the side note though .


#18 – Annie Duke
Commissioner, Epic Poker League

It might be a bit of a shock to learn that this is Annie Duke’s first time on the Power 20 but it was just over one year ago that Duke put her pro poker career aside to assume the role of commissioner of the newly founded Epic Poker League. Since then Duke has taken her media smarts to earn the fledgling poker league mainstream media coverage and been responsible for a player-friendly atmosphere.

(Editor’s Note: Voting for the 2012 Power 20 was conducted in late January, early February 2012 – prior to Epic Poker League’s parent company, Federated Sports + Gaming declaring bankruptcy)


We were surviving just fine until 2006. Hence my hatred for Frist and Kyl.
#17 – Sen. Jon Kyl
United States Senator (R-Arizona)
Senate Minority Whip

Flashback to as recently as 2010 and you’ll see Sen. Jon Kyl described as “anti-gaming” largely due to his role in seeing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act pushed into law in 2006. The Senator however has changed his tune as of late and is now considered by some to be the key to getting federal online poker legislation passed in 2012.




we could still tar and feather frist though:D
 
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While some good might come from shutting down online poker in the future, for now it is all bad. I used to get checks at least a few times a year, now that is done. Used to be able to play whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, now all we get are Merge and Cake and other terrible sites that barely work and don't have many games going.

Good might come from this, but for now this fella and his DOJ thugs have just told a bunch of addicts that they can't get their needles from the health department any more, but they might be able to find some in the dumpster behind the aids clinic.
 
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#17 – Sen. Jon Kyl
United States Senator (R-Arizona)
Senate Minority Whip

Flashback to as recently as 2010 and you’ll see Sen. Jon Kyl described as “anti-gaming” largely due to his role in seeing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act pushed into law in 2006. The Senator however has changed his tune as of late and is now considered by some to be the key to getting federal online poker legislation passed in 2012.

we could still tar and feather frist though:D

Kyl hasn't really changed his tune that much. He is still very much anti-gambling but has said he might be able to get onboard with a poker only bill.

Very few congressmen give a $%#$*&* about poker players. In fact Reid and Kyl as recently as July 2011 called for Holder to continue the war against offshore companies offering online gaming – including online poker – and clarify the US Department of Justice’s position on intrastate online gaming. Yet they can't pass a budget much less a poker bill.

The fact that they are basically stealing American citizen's money (and ROW players also are suffering to varying degrees) in their attempt to clear the field for American casinos only highlights the hypocrisy rampant in congress.
 
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