Antigua can look after its own interests, which may not be sports\'
I like Antigua, the beaches are extremely nice, the beer is swill, but the rum is top-grade.
However, you miss the point. Antigua will not throw poker under the bus because it cannot do so. For Antigua's online gaming sector, it is all or nothing.
Ironically, the real danger, although small, is that Antigua might yet throw online gambling under the WTO bus in favor of a really sweet tourism or financial services industry development commitment and jobs for Antiguans.
(Consider what a 3,000 person call center for VISA, MasterCard or someone similar would mean to Antiguans. Add to that the financial services industry profits from processing transactions. Considering also the legal leverage that the US has over VISA/Mastercard for processing coded gaming transaction, why think that it is not possible for DOJ to kill two birds with one stone ?)
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