[gonebroke]

The United Kingdom wants to become the online gambling capital of the world. They want the major players like PartyGaming, 888 Holdings PLC, Sportingbet PLC, etc. to physically move their servers and headquarters from their current location to the UK. To entice these companies to move to the UK, they are saying they will not stop extradition of any operator in the UK operating illegally by servicing Americans. This will make it impossible for PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and all the other sites that service Americans to move to the UK.

The bottomline is, the public companies are losing their poker players because the pool of players is higher at the privately owned sites because they service Americans. If the privately owned sites are labelled as rogue or black market operators by the UK and the rest of Europe, that helps the publicly traded companies because Europeans will be encouraged to play at those public companies and not the privately owned ones.