i agree that this is great news for the industry…if a company like yahoo can jump into the gambling industry without the government coming down on them, then the future is certainly looking up…
my question is how can this be considered legal by the u.s.?…in looking at betfair’s site, they obviously take u.s. gamblers…in fact the bet fair poker site defaults to u.s.a. for the country you are registering from…so, wouldn’t that mean that yahoo is accepting bets from u.s. gamblers, or at the very least facilitating u.s. gambling through betfair as some sort of uber-mega-monster affiliate…or, is it that yahoo is “customizing” the application so that u.s. gamblers are not filtered through them…it still seems that they would be operating in a gray area that the doj would not look favorably upon…
in either case, with yahoo setting a precedent here, it seems to put a steak in the ground further up the trail for all of us…