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Poker Bans

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Economics

An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: What Prostitutes and Big-Wave Surfers Can Teach Us About Risk

Allison Schrager wants to change the way you take chances.

Nick Gillespie and Alexis Garcia | 4.3.2019 11:35 AM

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Psychology/Psychiatry

Poker Champion Annie Duke on Making Smart Bets in Life, Politics, and Football

"Life is like poker," says Duke: Good choices and good outcomes don't always correlate.

Nick Gillespie and Austin Bragg | 2.20.2018 2:20 PM

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Donald Trump

Annie Duke: 'What Life Lessons Can Poker Teach Us? All of Them.'

Poker champ talks game theory, gambling, and Donald Trump.

Alexis Garcia and Nick Gillespie | 5.20.2016 2:25 PM

Poker Bans

Pot, Poker, and Prohibitionism

Do Republicans want to be the party of unprincipled killjoys?

Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2014 7:00 AM

Poker Bans

Objecting to a National Online Gambling Ban, State Legislators Remind Rick Perry About That 10th Amendment Thingie

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2014 2:15 PM

Poker Bans

The Tortured Textualism and Faux Federalism of the Chaffetz-Graham-Adelson Online Gambling Ban

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2014 5:47 PM

Gambling

Washington's Gambling Commission Shuts Down Card Games at Senior Center, Citing Local Ban

Jacob Sullum | 2.5.2014 3:58 PM

Reason-Rupe

65 Percent of Americans Say Online Poker Should Be Allowed

Emily Ekins | 12.18.2013 2:15 PM

Reason-Rupe Public Opinion Survey

65 Percent of Americans Say Online Poker Should Be Allowed

Emily Ekins | 12.18.2013 2:05 PM

Insider Trading

Imagine How Much Preet Bharara Could Accomplish If He Had Even Fewer Resources

Jacob Sullum | 12.3.2013 7:31 PM

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Poker Bans

How Poker Became a Crime

The capricious federal crackdown on the Internet version of an all-American game

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2013 11:00 AM

Gambling

Federal Appeals Court Says Poker Is a Crime After All

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2013 5:31 PM

Gambling

Cops Raid Free Poker Tournament, Because in Florida Gambling Does Not Require Betting

For years the Nutz Poker League, along with several competitors, has been running free tournaments at bars and restaurants in the Tampa Bay area.

Jacob Sullum | 10.29.2012 12:07 PM

Poker Bans

Online Poker Pay Processor Pleads Guilty

Deceived banks into handling gambling transactions that were illegal under U.S. laws

Reason Staff | 9.19.2012 4:40 PM

Poker Bans

Federal Judge Says Poker Is Not Gambling

Jacob Sullum | 8.22.2012 2:35 PM

Poker Bans

Judge Rules Poker Is a Game of Skill, Not Gambling

Declares poker games legal under federal law.

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 10:55 PM

Poker Bans

Tribes Fret Over Competition from Legalized Poker

Making big bucks from casinos with near-monopolies, Native American tribal official worry that online gambling could cut into their take

Reason Staff | 8.1.2012 4:47 PM

Lobbying

Reason.tv: The Politics of Poker and Why It's Time to Legalize Online Gaming

Zach Weissmueller | 7.6.2012 3:00 PM

Lobbying

Reason.tv: The Politics of Poker and Why It's Time to Legalize Online Gaming

Zach Weissmueller | 7.6.2012 2:00 PM

Poker Bans

How Government Corrupts Gambling

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2012 1:30 PM

Nanny State

If Poker Is a Public Health Issue, What Isn't?

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2012 3:48 PM

Criminal Justice

'Things Happened'

The year's highlights in shifting responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 7:00 AM

Nanny State

DOJ Reversal Could Clear the Way for Online Gambling

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2011 4:04 PM

Nanny State

Nevada Legalizes Online Poker

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2011 12:02 PM

Nanny State

The Government Blames Full Tilt Poker for the Disruption the Government Deliberately Created

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 12:33 PM

Drug War

Reason Writers on the Air: Matt Welch on Fox Business Network Calls for Repealing Prohibition on Online Gambling and Marijuana

Matt Welch | 8.18.2011 4:09 PM

Poker Bans

New Bipartisan Bill Would Legalize Online Poker

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 2:33 PM

Poker Bans

Online Poker's Real Victim Is the Government

Radley Balko | 4.22.2011 11:07 AM

Media

Disinterested Headline of the Day

Matt Welch | 4.19.2011 10:54 AM

Marijuana

Reason.tv: Why It's Time to Legalize Poker—David "Doc" Sands on Gambling, Pot, and Freedom

Reason Staff | 9.28.2010 3:00 PM

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