2012 Gambling Mid-Year Report

Black Friday Nears Conclusion
It’s been a little over a year since the Department of Justice killed the American facing online poker business (and six months since they brought it back to life).
With the prospect of legal online poker in the American market, the remaining unsettled Black Friday cases are moving rapidly towards a conclusion. Over the past few months Chad Elie and Ryan Lang have both entered guilty pleas. Daniel Tzvetkoff is set to testify against his former partners and everyone is looking forward to the end of this drama.
Hopefully, a well-regulated, perfectly legal, online poker market won’t be subject to the types of shenanigans we’ve seen from the DOJ and the crooked site operators.
Finally
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