{"id":22342,"date":"2013-09-04T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/?p=22342"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T10:00:06","slug":"senator-john-macain-plays-online-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/senator-john-macain-plays-online-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator John Macain plays online poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/McCainPoker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22344\" alt=\"Syria Secretary of State John Kerry\" src=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/McCainPoker-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Former Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was caught playing online poker on his smartphone while taking part in a senate hearing on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The one time candidate for the White House back in 2008 tried to brush off the picture taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics-live\/the-senates-syria-hearing-live-updates\/?id=ed01ca14-222b-4a23-b12c-c0b0d9d4fe0a\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post photographer Melina Mara <\/a>by joking he had sat there for 3 hours listening and even lost at poker.<\/p>\n<p>The game the Senator was playing has been identified as VIP Poker which is a social gaming app connecting thousands of players from around the World by new start-up company TinyC. A great advert for them of course and some Twitters users wondered if the Senator has any stocks in the company or just likes playing poker.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Twitter attacked the Senator as the Senate hearing discussed the possibility of air attacks on the Middle East nation he was more interested in getting a royal flush that considering how to stop Syria using chemical weapons again.<\/p>\n<p>One more final question that came up on Twitter was would the Senator be supporting any new bill in favour of federal online poker? 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