Poker Worry Over UIGEA May be Unfounded

When the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was signed into law by U.S. President Bush in October, many online poker rooms scrambled to extract themselves from their U.S. facing operations, but many poker industry experts are still asking why. In essence the act and law make accepting transactions regarded to online gambling illegal, but only if the state where the transaction originates in already has a law on its books making online gambling illegal, and somewhere near half of the states in the U.S. do not. With some online poker rooms returning to the U.S. markets they left behind in October, the jury is still out on how much the UIGEA will impact the poker industry.