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Poker News Digest 10/29/2008 – 10/31/2008
By Dan
Published: Friday, October 31, 2008
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- The World Series of Poker announced that Henry Orenstein and Dewey Tomko will be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame this November. Orenstein, a survivor of concentration camps during the Holocaust, is most famous for the invention that revolutionized televised poker: the hole cam. Before the hole cam, the little poker that was shown on television was boring, as it was essentially just a bunch of guys pushing chips around, occasionally revealing their cards. With the hole cam, the television audience could now see what cards each player had and play along at home. The hole cam, combined with internet poker, is largely responsible for the poker boom this decade. Orenstein holds over 100 other patents, one of which is the popular toy, Transformers. He has also won one World Series of Poker bracelet, in the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event in 1996. Dewey Tomko, a kindergarten teacher turned poker pro, has three WSOP bracelets (1979 and 1984 twice), but is perhaps best known as a two-time WSOP Main Event runner-up (1982 and 2001). He has 41 money finishes at the WSOP, including a final table appearance in the first $50,000 HORSE event, won by the late Chip Reese.
- The United States government isn’t the only one giving online poker a hard time. Now, fears have been rekindled in Australia that government-enforced internet censorship could include internet poker. Family First Senator Steve Fielding has put forth a proposal to block pornography from making its way to the computers of Australia’s residents. In turn, Senator Nick Xenophon said that if the proposed plan goes through, he would push to block online gambling sites, which are illegal to operate in the country. Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, said that if the plan did go through, a two-tiered filtering system would have to be implemented. The first tier would censor all sites deemed “illegal,” as determined by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. The second tier would be optional, and would include sites that parents may want to block from their children, such as pornography sites. Family First wants pornography put in the first tier, but would consider Conroy’s suggestion. Opponents of the internet censorship proposals present similar arguments that opponents of the UIGEA have in the United States: they argue that adults should have the freedom to view what they want on the internet, and that determining what gets blocked and what doesn’t would be a complete mess.
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