April 2011: D.C. officials said that they are planning to set up 20-30 online gambling "hot spots" in hotels, bars, clubs and other venues across the city by around September 1. The idea with these gambling "hot spots" was that poker players from all over the U.S. could play online poker legally against each other.
On August 22, in an interview with The Washington Post, Phil Hellmuth, winner of 11 World Series of Poker bracelets and Hall of Fame inductee, spoke his mind about D.C.'s legal online initiative.Hellmuth said there are hundred of thousands of American gamblers looking for a safe reliable online option after the shuttering of PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker. However, he said that there are too few people in D.C. for it to work.
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