Online poker bosses were only ever after a quick, illegal buck
Internet gambling in the US was always dodgy – the analysts just turned a blind eye: Richard Wray’s article made much of the fact that internet gaming companies and British investors were caught out by the clampdown on gambling in the United States. Yet it is hard to argue that there weren’t very clear warning signals that it was about to happen.
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