[jrbick]

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Step one: US cracks down

Step two: Foreign nations appeal to the WTO for a ruling on behalf of their companies

Step three: WTO rules that the US's restriction of gambling using foreign companies is against fair trade rules since the US has casinos. US has 1 to 5 years to rectify or be sanctioned

Step four: Us (as usual) sends out a defiant press release, and then backs down just before the sanctions hit. Case in point, the steel industry.

Worse case scenario - we get shut down for a few years.

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You've touched on another VERY important point in our favor. This already happened (sort of) with Antigua Vs. U.S. Not to mention that prohibiting this would ultimately violate other bills that have been put in place such as free-trade over the iNet (mentioned in the report) as well as others (mentioned in the report).

Here's what stood out to me -- though the commission points out how utterly difficult/impossible/expensive it would be to police this if it were prohibited, they still reccomend that it be prohibited. Maybe this point would have neutralized the commission.

I'd like to see correlating statistics between U.S. Casnios and iPoker (revenue specifically).

So, where does that leave my initial cause? Well, I want to see poker classified differently than other casino games - yes, it's still "chance," but MUCH less than other games, no ? If everyone in America that decides to play poker has the ability to do so optimally, then it ought to receive a different classification.