[MiltonFriedman]

"But soon, you won’t have unlawful internet sites to play at, IMHO.

..... Nothing makes the unlawful internet poker site exempt from being shut down."

Permafrost, you are the absolute King of Tautology. You consistently try to prove your claims by tacking the word "unlawful" to "internet poker site" to bootstrap ytour own propositions.

There is NO federal statute making operation of an internet poker site "unlawful".

If you want to throw around the word "unlawful" even at the State level, you need to have a statutory basis for doing so. There is NO criminal common law in the United States, at any jurisdictional level. If it is not expressly forbidden by Statute, it is not illegal, period.

UIGE Act expressly did not change either federal or State law as to what is "unlawful" internet gambling versus lawful internet gambling.

Put another way, Internet Gambling is lawful, unless there is an express statutory prohibiton in a relevant jurisdiction. I would love to see express authorization of internet poker, but the absence of express authorization does NOT make it "unlawful".