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High-stakes hand for online poker

By Paula Lavigne
ESPN

Saturday, July 18, 2009

In the next few months, online poker players in the United States will be wagering in one of their highest-stakes hands, but this showdown won't take place at the World Series of Poker final table in November. At issue is a federal lawsuit that could decide whether Internet poker players -- and the companies that sponsor pros such as Phil Ivey and Chris Moneymaker -- are breaking the law with every online wager they make. "It could be the battle of the O.K. Corral for Internet poker -- t ...

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