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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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Step two has happened, with the WTO ruling that the US can indeed regulate Internet gambling "to maintain 'public morals' and 'public order.'"
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This is, of course, for general Internet gambling, not poker per se. Whether step one is imminent remains to be seen.