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Interesting news for sure. Am I reading it right that this new bill is actually stricter than previously failed bills by leaving out exemptions for horse racing, etc. Won’t that actually make it harder to push through the Senate.
It also seems to state that it’s the funding of an online gambling account (via credit cards, wire transfers or other “instruments of banking”) that is the illegal activity, effectively making banks and credit cards the responsible parties. Isn’t it already fairly hard to fund an online account this way for a US resident? Thus the popularity of Neteller and others.
So basically if this law gets through, and it appears to be a big “IF”, then it would just cement the current situation for funding accounts, so not really a big deal, except for the precendent it would set.
I imagine it will be harder and harder to push this through. Our current “poker craze” with people of all ages and life situations are watching poker on tv as a sport – I would imaging most everyone has someone in their family and friends circle doing some “illegal” gambling.
Yes it is a train they cant stop
online poker is to big now- the longer there go the more impossible it will be for them to stop online gambling :colgate:I would agree that poker has made it past the tipping point and is way too mainstream now for a prohibition to stop it.
A quick anecdote, was talking with a friend of mine who has played poker for the past 20 years and he was commenting how his family always kind of looked down on him for doing so (from the conservative midwest). But, since the popularity boom of poker, his family is now coming to him and asking advice on how to play. An interesting turn of events for sure. Just goes to show that once people understand something like poker more, the less taboo it becomes.
