{"id":335,"date":"2007-10-20T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/10\/20\/poker-public-policy-politics-skill\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:31:51","slug":"poker-public-policy-politics-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/10\/20\/poker-public-policy-politics-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker: Public Policy, Politics, Skill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invitation to the Poker Players Alliance Policy Forum<\/p>\n<p>October 24, 2007 10:00 am \u2013 11:00 am in Rayburn 2200<\/p>\n<p>Poker in its many different variants has seen a proliferation across the United States of unprecedented proportions. Despite its growing popularity, poker is still a controversial<br \/>\nactivity that sparks emotions and debates in elections and legislative battles. A year after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was signed into law, this panel will<br \/>\ndiscuss its impact on the poker community and the current Congressional proposals that seek to create a U.S. regulatory framework for Internet gaming and classify poker as a game of skill.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator:<br \/>\n<strong>John Pappas<\/strong>, Executive Director, Poker Players Alliance<br \/>\nPanelists:<br \/>\n<strong>Howard Lederer<\/strong>, professional poker player<br \/>\n<strong>Professor Charles Nesson<\/strong>, Harvard University Law School<br \/>\n<strong>Andrew Woods<\/strong>, Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society<br \/>\n<strong>Radley Balko<\/strong>, Sr. Editor, Reason Magazine (www.theagitator.com)<br \/>\n<strong>Kenneth Adams<\/strong>, lead attorney in federal poker tax appeal, Dickstein Shapiro LLP.<\/p>\n<p>Please RSVP to ppaforum@pokerplayersalliance.org<br \/>\nQuestions? Contact the Poker Players Alliance in Washington D.C.<br \/>\n1111 19 th<br \/>\nStreet NW, Ste. 1150<br \/>\nWashington, D.C. 20036 <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/blog\/wp-content\/yinglan.JPG' width=\"400\" alt='' \/> <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday our  second club tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invitation to the Poker Players Alliance Policy Forum October 24, 2007 10:00 am \u2013 11:00 am in Rayburn 2200 Poker in its many different variants has seen a proliferation across the United States of unprecedented proportions. Despite its growing popularity, poker is still a controversial activity that sparks emotions and debates in elections and legislative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2176,2177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker","category-rhetorical-space","p1","y2007","m10","d20","h09"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}