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We don't have a producer, so it's kind of like figuring it out as we go and I one time I had all the

mics off and we were talking into just like thin air. Yeah we've we've had that happen

maybe once or twice for uh...

it's like old school bar school.

Oh yeah nothing has changed.

It's just, they gave us a fancier office but now we have mice so it's like it all

balances out. Welcome to the Cracken Aces Podcast. I am Nate. To my left is Jacob Pool, the 34 of the place

finisher in the 2015 W.S.P. Main event.

Suck. Not too much. That date. the This is episode 32 of the greatest poker podcast ever to be made.

Your words not mine.

It is December 11th, and today is a big day for a couple of reasons. One Michigan, the great state of Michigan,

the glove, the mitten, the mitten is what they call it. I didn't know that.

Yeah, it could have shaped like a mitten. They just passed a bill in the House Senate. Big state. Huge state. Who knew that it was that big? Big ass state passed the bill to legalize sports betting and online poker the fifth state to pass and

legalize online poker once the governor signs it that's huge news and we will be talking to a man who you should be following

on Twitter his name is Steve Ruddock R-U-D-D-O-C-K that's his that's his ad on Twitter.

He is the most knowledgeable person

when it comes to the legality of online poker.

He is the editor-in-chief at the gaming law review. I know that might sound boring when I say it

out loud but we just did the interview with him before we are recording what we're

saying right now and it was fantastic he has a super knowledgeable oh all that may be the most knowledgeable person we've ever talked to he knows the ins and outs of the why poker is legal in some states and not other what it takes to legalize it in some states and why it might be impossible in others he was fantastic

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