Connecticut Online Poker ‘Inevitable’ Says Governor
Could Connecticut somehow join a multi-state pact with neighboring New York and New Jersey to pool online poker players should the activity become legal stateside?
Connecticut’s Governor Dannel P. Malloy has been among the most emphatic when it comes to welcoming Web poker to his state since the Department of Justice released a statement that it would no longer apply The Wire Act to Internet poker.
“It is quite clear that Internet gaming is coming to Connecticut. Period. It’s coming,” said Malloy. “We have a stake in protecting that industry.
“The Internet is the Internet. You don’t turn off the Internet at any state’s borders,” he said. “It’s an impossibility.”
“If it moves forward, and it’s clearly going to move forward, it’s going to be available in Connecticut. Now we have to decide, in the state of Connecticut, what is our approach to that.”
“It’s a national decision that has largely already been made,” the governor told reporters this week. “So the question is, what do you do to defend the tens of thousands of jobs directly and indirectly tied to those two [tribal casinos, Foxwoods Resorts Casino and Mohegan Sun Resort] and I think that’s a legitimate question and that’s one of the things that we’re considering.”
Some in Connecticut have expressed concerns that the Tribal casinos would be permitted to generate revenues from Internet poker without having to share with the state, per previous agreements.
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Genovese Crime Family Capo Anthony "Rom" Romanello Pleads Guilty - Genovese Crime Family capo Anthony "Rom" Romanello plead guilty to crimes that date back to the 1990’s. These include racketeering, extortion and gambling. The 74-year-old Romanello is alleged to have been involved in a role of intimidation against a debtor, forcing that individual to pay a debt in 1990.
From the New York Post:
Romanello was scheduled to begin trial earlier this week on a series of expanded federal racketeering charges, but the trial was postponed when it emerged that a government witness had suffered a heart attack last weekend.
If he had been convicted at trial, the mob captain would have been looking at considerably more time behind bars because he faced a second extortion charge - as well as an illegal gun possession charge that carries a mandatory five-year minimum sentence.
He is likely to face anywhere between 10 and 16 years behind bars.
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Phil D’Auteuil Leads for Day 4 of PCA 2012 Main Event - Canadian high stakes online cash game player Phil D'Auteuil has taken the lead for Day 4 of the $10k PCA Main Event. D'Auteuil, who came fifth at EPT London in Season 5 for £195,766, starts Day 4 with 1,472,000 - just ahead of fellow Canadian Sam Greenwood. American Faraz Jaka is now in third place with 1,220,000.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
