LarkMarlow
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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/
"#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/