UB.com’s Annie Duke and four other witnesses: Ed Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Discovery Federal Credit Union, Tom Malkasian, Vice Chairman and Director of Strategic Planning at Commerce Casino, Mohegan Tribe’s Lynn Malerba and Michael Fagan, a law enforcement and anti-terrorism consultant. Before the House Financial Services Committee they testified on Internet gambling. The hearing is considered to a preliminary stride leading to a mark-up of HR 2267, The Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act.

Duke convincingly summarizes her testimony by saying, “I suspect that some on this committee support freedom, apart from where individuals would use that freedom to make what they [committee members] believe to be bad choices. ‘Freedom to make good choices’ is an Orwellian term for tyranny; the governments of China, Cuba and Iran all support the freedom of their citizens to make choices that their governments perceive as good.” She ends by saying, “though you might feel about gambling on the Internet, I would suggest that gambling with freedom is far more risky.”

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Poker is not for a lifetime for “Timex”.

Full Tilt Poker Mike “Timex” McDonald has gain a total of $2,627,136 from his poker career. Mike McDonald or known as “Timex” seems to acquire all the wealth that he needs. Noted for winning at the EPT’s 2008 German Open and recently scored $417,610; finishing as third place at that franchise’s Deauville stop, it was proclaimed in his CardRunner blog, that he is going to back off from the poker’s table.

“I feel like in some ways poker has become and escape for me; an opportunity to let time pass and just get through to the next day and justify it by saying “this is the most valuable use of my time” and I don’t much like the idea of that”; I won’t be earning a significant amount of money in the next few years and beyond that even if I were to say bink the WSOP main, the money itself would probably do almost nothing to change my future.”

An impressing remark from 20-year-old, McDonald says that he is going to go for a University. Applying the gained experience as retiree would be; enhance his abilities and be more productive.

Allegedly, popular online pro Shaun Deeb, have gone through the same decision few months ago but never seems to live to rest for the table. It was cleared by McDonald, that he is going to the next two EPT stops, no choice for the young poker master because trips have been scheduled before he come to realize everything.

The March version of “The Nuts” where it ranks the top ten poker player in the world was released by ESPN.com. Not only that it ranks the best living players but also determines who is playing the best poker as of the moment. In ranking, all the variations of poker has been considered whether it is live or online tournament and cash games. One of the members of the voting panel is Dan Cypra from Poker News daily. Dan is accompanied by Gary Wise, Andrew Feldman, and Bernard Lee a columnist of Poker News Daily.

The Editor-In-Chief of Bluff Magazine Lance Bradley is also one of the members together with senior writer Jessica Welman, another Editor-In-Chief from PokerNews Metthew Parvis, tournament reporter Don Peters and PokerRoad’s Court Harrrington.

For the four months that “The Nuts” is ranking poker players, one name is at the top of the list. Phil Ivey is the man when it comes the game of poker. Even if he did not have live poker tournament success last February, his cash game prowess is still standing out. Ivey gets credit because the evaluation is not limited in only one month. Outstanding results in months were considered in making the vote.

A seven World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a World Poker Champion Phil Ivey had a bittersweet ending of 2009. Aside from all the accomplishments he achieved from his poker career, his love life does not seem to be perfect on the other side.

Phil Ivey was married to Luciaetta for seven years and started to end it before the 2010 year comes. Their divorce was a mutual decision and the petition was heard on Nevada Court last December 22, 2009.

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