Online Poker Inches Closer to Exemption

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Sites that depend on US customers will fold if poker becomes legal. If it becomes legal a USA poker room would take most of the USA players very quickly. This is the big reason no sites campaign or make donations to US government officials.

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It is certainly true that many US owned sites would pop up, however, no one is going to play at site with bad software or poor customer service just because it's located in the US. Competition would certainly increase and existing sites would have to step up or they would be left behind. For example, PokerStars would have to have a CS phone number reachable from the US, and Party would have to develope some level of intelligent CS. On the other hand bonus whores would still flock to the Crypto's for the monthly bonuses. Also, the existing sites have the advantage of being already known and having, at least on some level, a loyal customer base.

Those can compete will prosper, those that cannot will die.

[Spike Forehand]

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The actual number of people in the USA who are truly negatively impacted by the UIGEA (as it pertains to poker, anyway), probably numbers no more than in the few tens of thousands, tops. I'll be more generous and say it numbers 80,000. (The actual number is probably more like 15,000, tops.) That's not a big constituency at all, and certainly not enough to sway any electoral events on a national level.


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Maybe so, but there are millions upon millions of Americans who believe that the government has no right to regulate what you and I do in the privacy of our own homes, and by association are negatively impacted by this type of loss-of-freedom legislation. Don't you think that those people could also be passionately moved by this right-wing attack on personal freedoms? Not to mention, the two-faced carve-outs for horse racing and lotteries?

It does no good to sit and complain, or for 2+2 to make a big splashy post about their lack of support for PPA. We all need to be unified and support any organizations that are active in moving legistlation forward. If you don't wanna spend the $20, then at least sign up for the free membership.

If a better version of the PPA comes along, I'll also support them by signing up and getting involved.

- Spike

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So where is the text of this legislation? Has it been written? If so, would someone please post it somewhere where I can read it? When is it going to be introduced? How many sponsors does it have?