Re: The \"exact\" current prospects will change if we each write
I have been following the passage of the bill in the house for the past few weeks (Cardplayer.com has links to gaming stories from a wide network of sources), and am appalled at the usual window dressing they are using to push these types of bills through. Its not about money laundering, that is just the smoke screen they use to justify their conservatist thinking that all gambling is bad and has to be restricted.
I plan to fight them on their own turf: In addition to making many of the same salient points about poker in this issue, I will make two more:
1) If you are TRULY worried about laundering and OC rigging the deck in favor of the house/shills/props, then LEGALIZE and REGULATE it the same way you do for Atlantic City, Las Vegas and the thousands of Indian casinos in the country! Its that simple. MGM closed their online casino, based on the Isle of Man, because they couldn't access the US market legally.
2) Are they going to show up next April at the WSOP or any other major tournament and take all the players, like Mr. Moneymaker, in to custody for "illegal gaming'?? I think not.
write now. write often. Legalize it, regulate it, PROFIT from it (of course once legalized the taxes get paid onshore. HMMM $6 Billion wagered online annually.....sounds like a not insignificant revenue increase for the US)
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