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Law + Poker: Ken Adams is Winning at His Own Game
By
Kim Eisler
Published Thursday, November 29, 2007
When we visited Dickstein Shapiro partner Ken Adams in 2005, the star antitrust litigator had won $87,430 in a poker tournament in Connecticut. Since then Adams has oriented his legal practice more to representing poker organizations, such as online site PokerStars. He is working on a federal-court appeal for a professional poker player battling IRS rules about deducting entry fees as business expenses. So it was natural in November that when Adams was invited to a poker fundraiser at the National Building Museum for Horton’s Kids, which funds tutoring for inner-city kids, it was both business and pleasure for Adams to donate $1,000 and enter the charity tournament. Some 150 congressmen, lobbyists, and staffers showed up, but at the end, it was Adams who won the $10,000 entry to next year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
This article can be found in the December 2007 issue of The Washingtonian.
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