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TeenPatti.com Joins TruePoker Team
Published: 2006-03-22
INDIA – (PRESS RELEASE) -- TeenPatti.com offers traditional Indian Teen Patti games, as well as Texas Holdem and Omaha powered by Yatahay's software and joined to the TruePoker Network. Teen Patti is the mostly widely played card game in India, and combined with the phenomenal growth in the worldwide popularity of poker, this combination is set to be a success.
Yatahay applauds Teenpatti's launch for the Indian market and is always looking for similar relationships in other countries.
Yatahay offers a turnkey poker product, available in two-three weeks from agreement. Investors/marketers can concentrate on their expertise, marketing their brand to the growing 18+ year old poker public, while Yatahay's operating arm provides everything else, from running the games, policing play, prizes and paying players. Yatahay's 3D TruePoker software has been running real money online poker games continually since March, 2001.
This proven TruePoker 3D software is also available for one-off marketing campaigns or contests, whether your aim is to provide prizing through the World Series of Poker, Las Vegas vacations or other incentives for customers suppliers or internal company contests.
Yatahay, Ltd. provides its 3D poker software for both real money gaming and promotional purposes. Yatahay's TruePoker brand is the longest running 3D online poker software, having been successfully launched in March, 2001 and running real money gaming continually since. TruePoker's 3D software has only recently become available for licensing to join the growing True Poker Network.
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Why everyone should oppose any legislation banning online gambling
Published: 2006-03-21
 The ACLU should be up in arms over Goodlatte, Leach, Kyl and the rest of the McCarthyism regime
We stumbled upon a little ditty today in the Free-Lance Star, a local Fredericksburg, Virginia news paper. It's a letter from the Poker Player's Alliance which expresses why everyone should oppose an outright ban on internet gambling.
Michael Bolcerek is the author of what appears to be an ever-increasingly formidable coalition of players representing the online gambling sector, and let's face it - there are some major players in the online poker realm, including high profile Hollywood celebrities.
Bolcerek offers the following in his letter:
Last month, Rep. Jo Ann Davis signed on to a bill (HR4777) that seeks to stop 23 million Americans from gathering online to play poker.
There are many people in Fredericksburg who enjoy Internet poker, and they should be aware of how this bill affects them.
There are four reasons why not only poker players should care about this and similar legislation gaining steam in Congress:
First, banks will be deputized by the Justice Department, which would have the authority to seek injunctions to make them block Internet gambling transactions, harming consumers' privacy.
Second, HR4777 confirms the legality of certain forms of Internet gambling, such as horse racing and state lotteries, while making poker illegal without clarifying why. Don't allow some forms of Internet gambling and outlaw the rest.
Third, HR4777 requests that Internet service providers remove--or disable access to--an online site that it deems a violation.
Fourth, the Treasury Department, Justice Department, and FBI will be required to monitor the Internet and to enforce the provisions of the bill. These are resources and time better used for national security.
The $10 million that Rep. Goodlatte has earmarked for enforcement is a laughable amount against a $12 billion industry.
A careful review of the proposed legislation makes it clear that HR4777 empowers government and private industry to interfere in the rights and affairs of ordinary, law-abiding American citizens.
This is unacceptable and certainly invites scrutiny from civil liberties groups. In fact, all interests should do their part to contact the ACLU
It is amazing that nobody has brought up the similarities between Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl and Wisconsin one time Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy served as a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin during the period 1947 to 1957 and gained notoriety for making freewheeling accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies. These accusations and inquiries later came to be referred to as "witch hunts" by McCarthy's detractors.
Senator McCarthy was accused of victimizing innocent people - and to this day, dictionary definitions of "McCarthyism" include the practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence and the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition.
Jon Kyl likewise has accused online gambling operators and players of "breaking a law" - a "law" he's tried unsuccessfully to pass over the past five years but can't. He cites an archaic 1964 "Wire Act" that does not apply to today's wireless world.
While crying about little kiddies stealing their parents credit cards and using these cards to place bets over the internet, Kyl ignores the fact that these little hoodlums are engaging in the act of "stealing" but would rather focus his attention on what these brats decide to use the credit card for.
As a kid, if I were contemplating stealing my parents credit card, I'd use it towards making purchases of video games over the internet. The last thing I'd be thinking about at that tender age is signing up with an online gambling company, having to provide documentation of age and identity, and then risk losing money. It's doubtful most kids even know how to play casino games to begin with.
Then there is this major flaw in Jon Kyl's "distorted" philosophy: Few if any online casino operators even send money via the credit card. They would send a cashier's check in the name of the parent. So Little Johnny is going to walk up to the teller window, pretend to be his dad, forging his signature and Johnny walks away from the bank with all this new loot? Give me a break!
Using Kyl's philosophy, it makes far more sense for a kid to purchase a Nintendo over the internet using his parent's credit card, thereby receiving shipment in his own name direct to his own home address (such a purchase can be made as a gift to someone else).
Now keep in mind, these points are all irrelevant to the good Senator who is only concerned about this poor thieving child becoming a gambling addict.
I say lock the little monster up and throw away the key!
Andy Rooney on this week's 60 Minutes presented his segment on government sanctioned lotteries, for which he deemed to be "gambling". And Rooney is one hundred percent accurate in his assessment of this situation when he states that the majority of those who gamble on the state lotteries are those who cannot afford to gamble on the state lotteries.
Internet gamblers, however, can afford to bet online. Just as there are a handful of "well off" individuals gambling on the state lottery, so too are there going to be a handful of "poor" individuals betting online. But it's a complete reverse of the "state lottery system" where any old schmuck with their last remaining dollar can walk up to Amit at the news stand and purchase a ticket. This is also true of the state-sanctioned Off Track Betting shops. Just take a look at the crowd in one of those businesses some day and see what I am talking about.
With online gambling, it is assumed you must be able to afford a computer or otherwise be employed in a job that is somehow computer-related, all of which would pay above minimum wage. Most deposit and payment methods also require either a credit card or banking account, either of which must be funded. Few if any online gambling establishments allow one to open a betting account with a single dollar. Society's poor will be less inclined to come up with the typical $20 requirement for opening such an account.
Senator Kyl chooses to ignore these points. If Joseph McCarthy were alive today, you better believe Jon Kyl would be right there supporting him. And at least there was some method to McCarthy's madness. Some of those he accused later turned out to indeed be Soviet spies whereas there is not one documented case of Junior stealing his parents credit card and using it to play casino games online.
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