Obama legalizes States For Gambling

[TrueOC]

why USA did this to online poker is ridiculous...so many other much more important things in the world to take care of than stopping online poker....it was such a good thing the way it was then the govt had to fuck it all up

[StephyMarieC]

Wait now it seems like it's going to be even more complicated but I'll do what I have to do.

[mpettit]

The only thing that will make it "better" then what it was is that it will now be "regulated" for whatever that is gonna mean. We will never see another pokerstars and never see another situation like FTP (thank god i think we can all agree on that).

These states are in too much debt for us not to allow online poker and just rake/tax the living daylights out of it. The big casinos in Vegas are not going to allow third parties to come in and control the market (like a zynga facebook ect.)

My prediction is that Nevada will be the first state for it to pass. You will have to be a Nevada resident to play. There will be either one big general site.. for instance like a harrahspoker or each casino will branch out and have there own site (dont think it will be this since most ceo of vegas hotels are totally for this but said will jump onto a big market) all about the $$$$ people. Nevada will introduce this site late this year early next year and the rake structure is just going to be over the top. You will see no rakeback options and probably very slim bonus payout options due to tax laws.

All of this will be 21+ and have a strong deposit verification (i could imagine). But I see this starting slow in Nevada and once other states see how much money there pulling in you will see it span across other sites and we will once again all be playing on the same servers own and operated by usa vegas casinos.

[jbetta01]

sweet stars here i come

[bishking]

So Obama is for legalization, but he haven't legalize it yet

[IamStuUnger]

why USA did this to online poker is ridiculous...so many other much more important things in the world to take care of than stopping online poker....it was such a good thing the way it was then the govt had to fuck it all up

One of the biggest problems is its an easy way to launder dirty money

[abwil2]

while nevada will be the first obviously, it wont be for just nevada residents. It will be open for all US states that sing on to allow there state to play. if your state allows it you will playing on any of nevada's poker sites. This isnt going to be a each state opens there own poker site LOL but all states will get a share of revenues..

[crp62885]

As long as stars comes back and I can steal more money from the crazy Euros, im ok with it!

[ssuglia]

I think it's a little too early to say that online poker will be "legalized" (it's never truly been ruled illegal to play, just illegal to deposit).

This is a good first step, but there's a long way to go before you'll see Pokerstars or any other site that's not accepting U.S. players make a return to the market.

[tp3rd]

Goldrushpoker and another site I cant remember will be the first sites to up and running . Goldrush will do away with the pay for points system it has now and change their format and its my understanding Joe Biden has invested In Goldrushpoker by buying up a bunch of its stock. Go figure,no insider information there huh?