Thus, online poker has experienced a marked and rapid renaissance, with nascent mobile poker apps enjoying surges in traffic, offshore websites becoming predictable topics du jour for Poker Twitter, and even the World Series of Poker – our community's mainstay summer camp destination forced into sabbatical – upping its online offerings. Some are now flirting with reopening, and while this is surely not an apt forum for the dispensation of medical advice, such setups strike many as unduly risky, while their shorthanded layouts strike others as strategically unpalatable. With COVID-19 came the closure of every licensed live poker room in the United States. Nor, for that matter, is there one weird trick that makes the online poker games raided by the Department of Justice in 2011 magically legal today. There is not, in fact, one weird trick to having the government pay your mortgage there is no one vegetable all gut doctors recommend be eaten daily and there is most certainly not some prescient fail-safe stock insight from the lone man who predicted the Great Recession, the collapse of the USSR, and Appalachian State's upset of Michigan. ĭisclaimer: The viewpoints expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the opinions, viewpoints, and official policies of. Maurice 'Mac' VerStandig is the managing partner of the VerStandig Law Firm, LLC, and focuses his practice on representing poker players, advantage gamblers, and other industry professionals in all manner of legal situations.

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