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PPA: Adelson’s Anti-Online Poker Comments Slap in Face
July 1, 2013
From Poker News Sheldon Adelson made himself abundantly clear. There is no longer reason to hope the Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO has or ever will come around on online poker. In an op-ed piece on forbes.com followed by an interview with Bloomberg Television, Adelson (pictured) went much further than to voice his old moral concerns. He called Internet poker fool’s gold economically, a plague and cancer waiting to happen morally, and in an insult to poker players everywhere, not even a game of skill. “It’s a complete slap in the face to every poker player,” said John Pappas,”…