[TheEngineer]

The reason UIGEA passed was that too many of us were happy with the status quo, so we didn't stand up for anything else. This made it seem like there was no political support for our right to play poker. If we do that now, we'll be sunk. We need to show political strength. Our goal is to fight hard for our rights to prevent a real prohibition.

My personal interpretation of our goals (in order of importance):
- keep things from getting worse (prohibition, laws against playing, etc)
- pass the Wexler bill, exempting skill games like poker from UIGEA
- legalize with regulation, working to keep taxes on poker low enough to keep the game the same for us