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 Jun 17, 2008
Offline Promotion: Positive or Negative?
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| Not a day goes buy I don�t get a helpdesk question asking �I don�t have a website, can I still promote on the PAW Network?� |
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Jun 02, 2008
Have you had your Sex and the City?
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 You�ve probably been living under a shell and have somehow found a way to stash all your senses 50 metres deep, if you don�t know about the new Sex and the City craze. It�s been a while since I�ve known that many women to be unavailable at the same time!!
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| Sex and the City and Affiliate marketing |
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Nov 05, 2007
Getting Organized And Being On A Schedule
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Getting organized and being on a schedule will help Poker Affiliates overall productivity.
Jeremy discusses the importance of this in his latest article.
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| Getting Organized And Being On A Schedule |
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Oct 02, 2007
Top 5 Linking Strategies for Poker Affiliates
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This is a great member submitted article for poker affiliates about Linking Strategy.
The article outlines the top 5 linking strategies for affiliates to increase their poker SEO.
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| Top 5 Linking Strategies for Poker Affiliates |
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Oct 02, 2007
Jeremy's Best of September Blog Posts
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Aside from writing content at PAW, Jeremy Enke also blogs about various poker affiliate issues in a personal blog.
These are a sampling of the best posts that are pertinent to the Poker Affiliate Industry for September.
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| Jeremy's Best of September Blog Posts |
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Sep 27, 2007
Web Design - Raw HTML versus CMS
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For many affiliates, it can be a difficult decision when deciding what platform to build their websites on.
The most common platforms in the poker affiliate world are either Frontpage or Content Management Systems.
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www.PokerAffiliateWorld.com - Jeremy's Articles
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 When Social Engineering Is A Disaster - Gambling And The Law
Another fantastic article by PAW contributor and gaming scholar I. Nelson Rose.
In this article, Nelson looks at the ridiculous legal system in the U.S. with respect to gambling and the law.
This is a great article by our friend and legal expert I. Nelson Rose. After reading this article, it really puts things into perspective on how ignorant the U.S. government is with respect to gambling.
Great Article Nelson!
Gambling and the Law®
When Social Engineering Is A Disaster
By I. Nelson Rose
It’s hurricane season again, bad news for the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. It’s shocking to see how little has been done to protect New Orleans. In fact, in the entire gulf coast region, probably the most significant steps taken to protect life and property have been with the gaming industry of Mississippi.
The Mississippi Legislature went into special session at the end of September 2005 to decide whether to allow casinos to be built on solid land. It took a hurricane destroying the state’s entire gulf gaming industry, but the Legislature did finally vote that these casinos did not have to float.
Gulfport and Biloxi’s casino barges were some of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina. What were they thinking, to not only permit, but actually require casinos to float in a hurricane zone? Hurricane Camille, in 1969, had flung ocean freighters over Highway 90.
The answer helps explain why the gaming industry is subjected everywhere to bizarre laws that are never imposed on any other business.
It is important to note that like the New Orleans levees that President Bush and Congress failed to reinforce, it was well known that the Gulf casinos could not survive a Category 4 hurricane.
"All the casinos were built to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. Beyond that, we are very nervous," Susan Barnes, general manager of Treasure Bay Casino told the New York Times before the storm hit.
She had every right to be nervous. Hurricane Katrina was Category 5, the strongest storm possible, before it weakened slightly to Category 4. Still, with gusts of winds reaching 145 miles per hour, the casinos were bound to be damaged.
Buildings built on land could be designed to withstand high winds, and many were, including the hotels connected to some floating casinos. But the storm also sent a roaring wall of water 30 feet high from the Gulf of Mexico smashing into the Mississippi coast.
Every floating casino was severely damaged, many beyond repair.
Casinos, including the floating parts of those casinos that were connected with buildings built on solid ground, were lifted and crashed inland. Others sank.
Those casinos that had been securely built on pillars over the water didn’t move. But they were hit with the full force of the wave, because there was no land to protect them from the sea.
But it wasn’t the shrieking wind and storm surge that destroyed so many casinos. It was bad laws.
The Mississippi Legislature is not entirely to blame. Requiring casinos to float was a political compromise necessary to overcome stiff opposition to legalizing at all.
Lotteries, racetracks and casinos were fairly common during the 19th century. But Victorian morality and scandals brought a backlash. By 1909, all the state lotteries had been outlawed almost all tracks were dark and the only parts of the United States or Canada with legal casinos were the state of Nevada and the territories of New Mexico and Arizona, which were told by Congress that if they wanted to become states they would have to close their casinos. So, by the time the better known Prohibition on alcoholic beverages became law, all lotteries, parimutuel betting and casino gambling had already been banned.
The current wave of legalization began with the Great Depression. In 1931 Nevada relegalized casinos. Racetracks reopened. The state lottery was rediscovered by New Hampshire in 1963. And in 1977, New Jersey became the first of many states to authorize casinos, restricted to a limited number of locales.
It is sometimes hard to remember what it was like before state-licensed and tribal casinos popped up in a majority of states, and state lotteries advertised in virtually every major media market.
The under-regulated casinos of Nevada in the 1940s and ‘50s were infiltrated by organized crime. Gambling was seen as a dangerous vice. No politician would risk his career by supporting the spread of legal gaming.
The state lotteries helped changed that image because they were so well run, and were promoted as a fun way to avoid raising taxes. Nevada cleaned up its act, under threat of federal intervention. But, still, casinos were not churches.
Atlantic City was the first to limit casinos to a single resort city. But it was Iowa lawmakers who hit upon the formula for overcoming public skepticism.
Iowa’s riverboats were sold as merely a means to enhance the state’s tourist industry. Locations were limited to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, as images of Mark Twain and steamboats were floated through the media. I heard one proponent assert that Davenport, Iowa, would soon have visitors flying in from South America.
To force the industry to make gambling merely an adjunct to tourism, boats were required to cruise for four hours. Of course, operators quickly learned how to slip a few feet from shore and sail at exactly the same speed as the river so the boats stayed in one place.
The Iowa State Legislature was the first to attempt wholesale social engineering. One of the perceived dangers of legalizing casinos was the potential harm to problem gamblers. So bet limits were set at $5 maximum. This also was designed to discourage Nevada casino companies.
No one thought about what would actually happen when a problem gambler was stuck for hours on a boat with nothing to do but stare at muddy water or gamble.
Other craziness followed. My favorite was “phantom cruises,” where the boats were required to pretend to be on cruises, with locked doors, even though they had never left the dock.
Some Mississippi entrepreneurs and lawmakers saw the potential in riverboat casinos. The Gulf area’s two main businesses, shrimp and timber harvesting, were in trouble. There already were cruises to nowhere, but these sometimes ran into rough seas. Patrons can’t bet very much when they’re busy throwing up.
For decades, Mississippi was known as the poorest state in the nation. Like impoverished Indian tribes, no matter what problems legal gambling brought, the situation could not be worse than it already was.
But fundamentalist Baptists, who oppose all legal gambling, are a powerful political force in the South. The compromise was to isolate the boats and surround them with holy water.
It is interesting to see how little rational thought goes into decisions about legalizing gambling. The only legitimate reason for putting boats on water was to limit access to their casinos, which can be easily done on dry land. Instead, the major argument is that going a few hundred feet inland is an attempt by the casino industry to expand. This ignores the fact that the current law sets no limits.
I had no doubt that the Mississippi Legislature will allow the casinos to reopen on land. No one wants to vote for a law that guarantees people will be killed during the next “once in a lifetime” hurricane.
But more importantly, Katrina closed the floating casinos, cutting off the flow of tax money just when the state needed it most.
So the result was another compromise. Casinos wanted to move 120 feet inland. The Mississippi Legislature would let them go only 80 feet, and of course insisted on raising taxes.
© Copyright 2007. Professor I Nelson Rose is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on gambling law. His latest books, GAMING LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS and INTERNET GAMING LAW, are available through his website, www.GAMBLINGANDTHELAW.com
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