there mad they cant tax it so they try to get rid of it because they cant get anything out of it for themselves

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The pull-out, sale, or outright closure of many internet poker sites was very premature and very shortsighted on their parts. The federal government cannot keep people from visiting online card rooms and casinos. They can only try to interrupt the cash flow by forbidding U.S. banks and credit card companies from financing online gambling through customer transactions. However, the banks themselves have said that they feel it to be unenforceable on their parts.

NETeller is still offering its service to U.S. online gamblers, and will continue to do so from its home in the U.K. Snail-mailing a money order is a bit time-consuming, but unstoppable. PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Poker.com have all said they’re not going anywhere.

If anything, this is good for online poker as it will cull out a lot of shady sites that don’t have the clout to compete in a much tougher marketplace. The big poker rooms will continue to flourish. And, it should drastically curtail the field in the World Series of Poker Main Event as it was estimated that over half of the 8,000+ players in the 2006 field were online qualifiers who did not have to pay the $10,000 for their seat out of their own pocket. In my opinion, that’s a positive, as it had grown out of control.

Online poker will slow down in the US for now until there are alternative methods of crediting your player account at the different online poker rooms. I imagine in a few years, the Unlawful Internet Gaming Act will be changed and the US will allow online gaming in the US. At that point, land based operations will open huge online casinos and poker rooms. They will team up with existing online poker rooms and casinos and the market will explode once again. It’s only a matter of time.

Madasia

I think it will begin expanding again and in a year or two itt will be back to where it was before the legislation. looking at that list of what sites are still around you have Pokerstars which is the same size as Party was at its peak, you have FTP which has 10-20K players online at peak, UB, Absolute and a bunch of Prima sites still allow US players, which leaves us with a ton of people still playing. FTP and Stars have a lot of appeal to Americans with their ties to pros, and UB to a lesser extent. I have to believe with that many sites still going in the US, that we’ll see poker’s popularity keep going, although it will be a bit more “underground” which gives it even more appeal.

Maybe I am optomistic, but Americans seem to love poker, and online poker just won’t dry up and die. IMO.

It’s all a ruse, I believe, to legalise and then tax the industry. Come to my home page and hit the PANIC button for more!

On-line poker isn’t going away. The real question is how it will change as a result of the new law. If big well regulated companies get scared out the US market there will be no shortage of small shady companies that will step in and to take our money. I intend to put my playing dollars at the well established on-line poker rooms that are fighting to stay open to American players. I suggest you check out the video below for more information on why the law was pushed through.