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Hmmm, people who want to run a poker site could:

A) Run a poker site on a warm tropical island and not pay taxes on their income

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B) Run a poker site, pay taxes on their earnings, AND LIVE IN NORTH DAKOTA

Hmmmm, let me think which one sounds more enticing. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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C) Run the first legalized online casino based on U.S. soil, and regulated by U.S. Gaming laws, and quickly become the largest online gambling site in the world. What they would make minus taxes would still blow most other sites out of the water.

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how is setting up an online pokerroom in ND going to change anything? ND is not the federal government. If something like this were to happen it seems like the only people who would legally be allowed to use the site would be people from ND. I fail to see also how it would "quickly become the largest online gambling site in the world."

That's why internet gambling is a tricky topic, even if a single jurisdiction says its okay, the internet is not limited to that jurisdiction. It might be a step in the right direction as far as gaining acceptance somewhat, but I really don't see an ND site making dramatic and fast changes in the online poker world for US citizens as you suggest.