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With the way the UIGEA is worded, the gaming commission or lottery authority of each U.S. STATE can legally start up its own online poker site that is limited to state residents ONLY.

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olivert,

Your legal interpretation is slightly off here. The states don't possess the right to allow intra-state online gambling because of the permissive largesse of the federal government through the IUGEA, but rather constitutionally already possessed that right which the federal government cannot take away even under the broadest interpretation of the commerce clause. Indeed, the IUGEA depends for much of any effective force it might have upon state law regarding gaming.