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Kevin J. H. Paik ’07, who quit online poker last year, said he understood why people were opposed to gambling...
...People shouldn’t be forced not to gamble just because some people can’t control themselves,” he said. Poker “is a zero-sum game and everyone’s expected value is proportional to the how skilled they...
...tacked on literally in the 12th hour on a port security bill as kind of a last chapter,” Poker Players Alliance spokesman John A. Pappas said. “The legislation was never given a hearing.” He added that “whether you play poker or not, the way that legislature was passed through was not a good representation of what our democratic system should look like...
...Harvard poker aficionados are quick to call certain loopholes to circumvent the provisions...
...Prohibitions have never worked, and they certainly won’t work in the case of online poker,” Pappas said. “The internet is so ubiquitous, and the enforcement mechanisms, by putting the burden on the banks, [are] going to be very difficult to enforce...