Big Days
It's a big day for the company I work for. Gutshot gets shitloads of criticism, some of it justified, some of it not. But I love the place, and they pay me to do a job I wanted since I was 13. Not a lot - money not love, but I don't care. I took a paycut to work here and I've never regretted it. Except when a cheque once bounced. But the Inland Revenue are used to that kind of thing.
So yes, big day. Two things, but the main one is the court case. Gutshot are being taken to court for operating an illegal poker room. There's a big grey area here because technically no license exists for a poker room, only for casinos, and as we don't have roulette or blackjack, and no license for those anyway, so people say we're in trouble. Fair enough.
But today we find out if our case will go to the Crown Court, pretty much our only hope. But it's a good hope. The crisis scenario is if they decide a magistrate could deal with it. A magistrate will deal strictly with the law and shut us down. It's Crown Court or bust, where we can persuade and be nice to a jury.
The other thing that's happening is a big hole being knocked in the wall. We're extending into a big space next door which will double the space for poker tables. To hell with the court case, let's think big.
But it's the chief of this place who faces prison if everything turns weird. Derek Kelly. I like Derek. When I joined Gutshot it was based on the speech he gave me in Dublin that counted as my interview. He made me feel like I was going to write for Rolling Stone. That's the goal. I remember I did well in a no-limit game that night too. So yes, if he goes to prison I will visit him and bring a saw in a cake. No doubt about that.
So yes, big day. Two things, but the main one is the court case. Gutshot are being taken to court for operating an illegal poker room. There's a big grey area here because technically no license exists for a poker room, only for casinos, and as we don't have roulette or blackjack, and no license for those anyway, so people say we're in trouble. Fair enough.
But today we find out if our case will go to the Crown Court, pretty much our only hope. But it's a good hope. The crisis scenario is if they decide a magistrate could deal with it. A magistrate will deal strictly with the law and shut us down. It's Crown Court or bust, where we can persuade and be nice to a jury.
The other thing that's happening is a big hole being knocked in the wall. We're extending into a big space next door which will double the space for poker tables. To hell with the court case, let's think big.
But it's the chief of this place who faces prison if everything turns weird. Derek Kelly. I like Derek. When I joined Gutshot it was based on the speech he gave me in Dublin that counted as my interview. He made me feel like I was going to write for Rolling Stone. That's the goal. I remember I did well in a no-limit game that night too. So yes, if he goes to prison I will visit him and bring a saw in a cake. No doubt about that.
posted by Stephen | 12:13 PM
1 Comments:
I realy feel for the gamblers in the US. I cant beleive the US Congress banned all banks and credit card companies from accepting transactions from online gambling sites which makes Us gamblers unable to play online poker. What a bunch of hypocrites the US state government are. They have the largest gambling operations with lotto, keno, etc. If they truly believed their rhetoric about internet gambling they would cut out the state operations also. And now they are bringing in a law to legalise slot machines. Personally I would have a big grudge against any party that stopped me from playing on an online poker site. I think there must be some way for the Us gamblers to get around this problem. Must make you wonder if you the US Citizens are living in the land of the free when it seems the government has full control on what it will and wont let them do.
Post a Comment
<< Home