When Will Online Poker Become Legal Again?
One of the biggest questions on poker players' minds involves when online poker will become legal again. Since the advent of the UIGEA, players from the United States have found it increasingly difficult to fund their online poker accounts.
Also, many online card rooms have left the market altogether fearing backlash from the U.S. government.
The skill vs chance debate
One of the largest hurdles facing opponents of the UIGEA and similar laws in other states involves determining poker sites such as gaming commission regulate brick and mortar casinos.
Another potential outcome that we might see is that the U.S. government may give the states the opportunity to decide on a case by case basis whether they will allow online poker. Of course, if this happens, we will have to put up with over 50 decisions regarding poker and things may become more of a mess than they are now.
Of course poker will be legal again!
Ultimately, I think poker in the U.S. will become legal again. When that will happen remains to be seen, but I do anticipate it in the next four years. As we know, President Obama is a poker player and there is serious pressure being put on lawmakers to make poker legal.
A decision is coming. When that decision gets here, odds are it will be in poker's favor and poker will, at least for a time, experience a second boom.
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