Lawman007
07-12-2006, 04:14 PM
The House voted to ban internet gambling, including online poker, yesterday by a vote of 317-93. If this bill becomes law, it will prohibit banks from transferring customers' funds to online poker sites and companies like Neteller and will force banks to work with law-enforcement agencies to stop money from being transferred to online poker sites and companies like Neteller.
The Senate will vote on this bill next. If the Senate passes it, the bill will become law because President Bush supports it and will sign it. This will effectively prohibit Americans from playing at online poker sites.
Cardplayer.com and several other sites have been warning about this for months and encouraging poker players to contact their Representatives and Senators and voice your opposition to this bill. It's too late to contact your Representative now, since the House has already passed the bill. However, you better contact your Senators soon to voice your opposition to this bill or it's going to become law. It's already halfway there.
If you don't do something, one day you're going to wake up and find that you can't play poker online anymore. You better do something before it's too late. Here's a link to the Cardplayer.com story on the passage of this bill by the House yesterday:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/news_story/1153?class=PokerNews (http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/news_story/1153?cl ass=PokerNews)
To the moderators - Please do not move this thread to the Legislation Forum where only a few people will see it. This is very important to everyone who posts in this forum, so please leave it here so that everyone here will see it and we can try to stop this bill from becoming law. The reason that the bill was able to pass the House is because not enough poker players knew about it and voiced their opposition to it. Thank you.
The Senate will vote on this bill next. If the Senate passes it, the bill will become law because President Bush supports it and will sign it. This will effectively prohibit Americans from playing at online poker sites.
Cardplayer.com and several other sites have been warning about this for months and encouraging poker players to contact their Representatives and Senators and voice your opposition to this bill. It's too late to contact your Representative now, since the House has already passed the bill. However, you better contact your Senators soon to voice your opposition to this bill or it's going to become law. It's already halfway there.
If you don't do something, one day you're going to wake up and find that you can't play poker online anymore. You better do something before it's too late. Here's a link to the Cardplayer.com story on the passage of this bill by the House yesterday:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/news_story/1153?class=PokerNews (http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/news_story/1153?cl ass=PokerNews)
To the moderators - Please do not move this thread to the Legislation Forum where only a few people will see it. This is very important to everyone who posts in this forum, so please leave it here so that everyone here will see it and we can try to stop this bill from becoming law. The reason that the bill was able to pass the House is because not enough poker players knew about it and voiced their opposition to it. Thank you.