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Doylesroom Gets Quick Lesson In Hubris From DOJ
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Author: Marc Weinberg
May 25 - Doyle Brunson strikes me an ornery libertarian who doesn't much care for government interference in his life. Good for him. Unfortunately, the website he sold his name to, Doylesoom.com, seemed intent on ratcheting up pioneering independence all the way to ridiculous hubris. And now they've incurred the wrath of the DOJ, which is like the sun only more fatal and less caring.
I am not sure the analogy of Icarus would mean much to Mr Brunson, who wrote a great book about poker that changed the history of the game, but is probably not what one would call a literary man. But simply replace wings with a Rascal, the sun with the US government, and flying in the face of good reason with Doylesroom.com's emails over the past month, and you have a serviceable metaphor for this poker room's fall from grace.
April 19th saw an email from Doylesroom.com with the subject heading: "Important News From Doyles Room". The gist of it was "Business As Usual" for US online poker players, who were repeatedly solicited to come and play as though Black Friday meant nothing.
One US poker player who was unconvinced was Doyle Brunson, who scooted away from the poker room as fast as possible. Officially he "distanced" himself from the operation, but he was out of there quicker than a bat from Hades. He went all Reagan very fast - he wasn't aware of how the poker room worked at all. He didn't really own any of it. They simply asked him if they could use his name.
All those bounty tournaments faded from memory Spotless Mind style. And once again it is as though US professional poker players who vigorously promoted online poker, benefited financially from online poker, and let's be honest owned shares in operating companies that ran online poker sites, all dwell in a magical bubble. Inside this bubble they cannot be prosecuted and presumably won't be fined either. Must be nice.
No wonder the guys who formerly processed the payments have run for the hills. They're left holding the bags filled with jail time or personal bankruptcy. Online gambling for Americans is dead for now, and although it will probably come back state by state it will be a diluted and anemic return. We'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century as a golden age. How pitiful.
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