Obama transition team talks about poker

The new (December 22) issue of Poker Player newspaper has a front-page article by Wendeen Eolis. She explains that she had occasion to be meeting with several attorneys from the Barack Obama transition team in Washington, D.C., the day after "60 Minutes" did its piece about online poker. She found that they were willing to be quite forthcoming on the subject, as long as she did not use their names in print. In addition to learning what misconceptions they had about the poker world, she asked about the prospects for reversing the UIGEA or passing a poker carve-out. The reactions ranged all the way from, roughly, "it's not going to happen" to the most optimistic "don't count on it."

Well worth reading (not yet available online, though), especially for those of you who, contrary to evidence and reason, somehow convinced yourself that Mr. Obama cared about any poker game other than his own.