Re: PPA Statement
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Help me follow the logic here. The PPA's primary goal is to get a bill passed by Congress that gives poker a skill exception to the "new law". States then will have no choice but to allow any and all poker businesses since it is a skill game exempt from laws.
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I don't think so, at least not the second part.
I'm guessing their goal is just to get a carveout from the UIGEA and by extension the Wire Act. States will still be able to regulate poker and gambling however they want. It will still be illegal in Washington unless they change their law. But at least the DoJ will be off the backs of pure poker sites.
Also, I think US-based poker sites could then be set up as long as they didn't serve any states/jurisdictions where it was illegal. This would probably be tricky given all the ambiguous state gambling laws out there.
That's my take on it, anyway. Like a lot of people, I'll be waiting to see if a bill actually gets introduced. It probably won't go anywhere, but I'd be somewhat impressed with the PPA if they got it introduced.
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