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🗓️ 21 October 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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The US government all but shut down Internet poker several years ago, leading one of my friends to move out of the US so he could continue playing. Adam Haman, a player with 25 years of experience, joins us to discuss the war on gambling as well as offer a few gaming tips.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 764. |
0:03.9 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
0:08.5 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
0:14.7 | Folks, if you're like me, you get more email than you can cope with, and you frankly don't |
0:19.6 | know what to do about it. |
0:22.3 | Well, do what I do. |
0:30.5 | Use SaneBox to declutter and get your life back. Check it out at SaneBox, S-A-N-E-B-O-X.com slash Woods. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking about gambling today, and in particular, |
0:37.4 | we're talking about, well, |
0:39.4 | poker, online poker. And what happened to it, thanks to the government. Plus, just general |
0:44.9 | things about gambling and poker, the sorts of questions that somebody like me, who doesn't even |
0:49.8 | qualify as an average player, might be curious about. And joining us here is Adam Heyman, who's been playing |
0:56.8 | for 25 years. We'll talk a little bit about his participation in the World Series of Poker. |
1:03.1 | He joined us on the Contra Cruise. So, of course, I put on a little event when I found out |
1:09.1 | about his knowledge and expertise on this subject so people could find out more. |
1:13.8 | And I thought, what the heck, let's talk about this on the show. |
1:16.3 | I haven't covered it yet. |
1:17.7 | And I should, because here's another area where we have state involvement, and we shouldn't. |
1:23.5 | So let's talk to Adam. |
1:25.2 | Adam, welcome to the show. |
1:26.7 | Hi, Tom. |
1:27.4 | Pleasure to talk to you. |
1:28.7 | It's not as much fun talking to you over Skype or, you know, the telephone as it is talking to you on the Contra Cruise, but Contra Cruise can't go on forever. |
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