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Poker porn crisis: Agony of da-FEET
Published: 2006-04-26
 Jenny Woo, Destiney Lewis, Anna Lexington reporting for www.gambling911.com
When poker pro David Williams busted this past weekend at the World Poker Tour Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada, he walked away a few grands richer, actually mid-five figures richer.
We couldn't help but wonder if Williams was just a bit distracted by his newly found porn star fame while sitting along side one of the individuals who first broke the story from NeverWinPoker Alas, he probably would have busted a lot sooner had his co-star, Janet Mason, been present at the table.
"You got an *** that commands to be worshipped," Williams is head saying in the now infamous porn flick that is currently enjoying the widest distribution over the web since Paris Hilton's forte into uninhibited voyeuristic video sex.
Williams knew but didn't say much about his college boy romp with a hot 40 plus year old Janet Mason. The porn video, which touches on various fetishes such as the older woman/younger man, interracial and feet have the entire poker community spellbound. And did we mention backside intrusion?
Actually it was cool sitting besides David the whole day 3, explains Neverwin, pictured left (as seen at StarkNakedPoker )
We have known each other for a few years now and are always friendly when we see each other. We never directly talked about this situation at all although he did say something indirectly to me. He was very focused and played with a chip on his shoulder that day. Early on the tournament he said to me, well in order to get rid of the bad news, I have to make some good news! And that was all we both played hard all day, I was pretty much staying out of his way while he raised about every other hand. I picked up AA once on him and reraised preflop but he folded. Another time I called flat called him with 10-10 the board came 778, i called the flop, turn a J i called the turn, blank on the river, he now checks, and I check behind him. He flips over the Q7o and I say nice hand, thinking to myself no way you getting a checkraise on the river on me sir.
Also he knows I am not the one to blame for this story. The news has been out there and I heard about this story over a year ago, NWP just happeded to be the place were the story has been resurfaced and more of the general public made aware
Of course, when the Ladies of Gambling911.com sink their teeth into something, you just know it's going to get plenty of media attention.
Ahh but it seems this is not the first porn scandal to rock the world of poker and not the first brought to light by NeverWinPoker
That site once displayed the male anatomy of another poker player, Gavin Griffin, for the entire world to see after he Griffin sent the photo to another poker player who had been making advances towards him. The player in question pretended to be a female when in fact he was a male.
Gambling911.com has verified the star of "College ****, Vol. 8 Tony's First Lesson" has been verified as poker ace David Williams. But what we really want to know is, Where the hell are the other 7 volumes?
Catching the most attention is David's propensity towards foot fetishes.
Foot fetishism is a pronounced fetishistic sexual interest in human feet. This paraphilia is also called podophilia. It is also one of the most common fetishes in males specially when combined with female domination.
A foot fetishist can be sexually aroused by viewing, handling, licking, tickling, sucking, sniffing or kissing the feet and/or toes of another person, or by having another person doing the same to their own feet. The fetishist response to the foot is the same or very similar to arousal at seeing genitals (or the sex-specific features like female breasts).
Like other paraphilias, foot fetishism varies widely and can be highly specialized, therefore one fetishist may be aroused by elements another might find repulsive. Some foot fetishists prefer to concentrate on feet that are arched, others concentrate on relaxed feet. Most prefer bare feet, while others may prefer feet dressed in certain types of shoes, socks or hosiery. Some even concentrate on specialized scenarios, such as bare feet resting on a car dashboard.
A foot fetishist can be male or female. Some fetishists like smooth soft and clean female or male feet. While others may like them rough or dirty.
In David's case, he prefers them soft, wrinkly and attached to a much older lady.
For anyone thinking this will hurt David Williams' poker career, porn shockers haven't exactly caused damage to the likes of Pam Anderson, Tommy Lee and Paris Hilton. In fact, some would argue, quite the opposite has occurred.
Gambling911.com will continue to stay on top of this story with the same reckless abandonment Williams displayed staying on top of Janet Mason.
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Italian Poker 'Wall' Cracked By Astrabet
Published: 2006-04-28
 April 28, 2006
Earl Burton
As legislation continues to be on the minds of online poker players and casino enthusiasts here in the United States, it looks as though there is also a big battle brewing in the online world of the European market.
A couple of months back, we reported on the news that Italy had banned over 800 online poker and gaming sites from operating in the country. Through blocking of the respective sites by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Italy, they were virtually able to eliminate traffic from Italians towards those sites. Soon afterwards, the Italian government announced that the gaming operation Eurobet was allowed to operate inside the borders, essentially setting up a government sponsored monopoly on online gaming and poker. The legislation in Italy that set this all up, called the Italian Finance Act, has come under attack by many in the online world and the first cracks seem to have developed here in April, with far reaching ramifications across Europe.
On April 20th, the Civil Tribunal of Rome ruled that Astrabet must be removed from the list of blocked sites on the list promulgated by the Italian government and maintained by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the intriguingly named Autonomous Administration of State Monopolies (AAMS). With this decision, Astrabet, a company based in Malta, should be allowed access to the Italian market despite the efforts of the Italian Finance Act. It has also led to further action by the European Commission towards nations that, like Italy, have set up state sponsored gaming sites in an attempt to get all of the action.
Many other nations across the Continent have set up similar situations to what Italy has attempted to do. Sweden has a state sponsored gaming site as do several other countries, which has drawn the ire of the online gaming world. Earlier in April, the EU decided to look into whether these state sponsored gaming sites violates the treaty signed by the member nations of the EC.
The European Commission decided to send official requests for information on national legislation restricting the supply of sport betting services to seven member states. Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden all were requested to provide this information to see if they are violating Article 49 of the EC treaty, which guarantees the free movement of services between member nations (similar to NAFTA here in North America). The European Commission logically have contended that nations cannot invoke the need to restrict their citizens access to betting services from other nations if at the same time they encourages them to participate in state lotteries, games of chance or other betting which benefits the particular nation’s own pockets. The member nations contend that it is their right to protect their citizens, albeit one has to wonder about the logic of their “protection” when they also either promote or authorize a particular offering from an online site or start their own service to accept wagers.
There have been other situations in France, Germany and the Netherlands which have also drawn the attention of the European Commission and have, with the continued battle in Italy, led to the current action from the EC. It just goes to show that the United States isn’t the only country that is having quite a time with online gaming and poker and all of these matters are going to be boiling around the globe for some time to come. We’ll keep a close eye on the situation should it change and wherever it may happen.
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