links for 2010-12-05

 In the beginning, there was Planet Poker.

Although really, the savvy ones were making money from online poker even before that. Russ "Dutch" Boyd–who would later take inspiration from Steve Miller's classic joint in his poker industry career–was one of the earliest adopters. He and others discovered in the latter half of 1997 that an online company called 2AM Games offered a platform for legally parting fools from their money. 2AM Games hosted online Texas Holdem Poker.

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A very interesting read

Stu Hoegner, our resident international gaming attorney here at Pokerati – a.k.a. @GamingCounsel as he is well followed on Twitter, has located a copy of document that has been widely requested by our readers in the past 24 hrs.

Check it out -> Las Vegas Review Journal has placed the following draft copy of the Reid Internet Poker Bill on the web.

Hold on to your legal hats…  here’s Stu’s detailed analysis of this draft copy of Reid’s bill.

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Read it all.

Chances of passage = probably continues remote