poker law

Let us suppose that the United States Government abandoned the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act tomorrow. There would be world wide web complications of enormous potential:

What does the World Trade Organization do with the Antigua/US dispute?

What does the EU do with the biggest player in the online gaming world back in play?

Does Germany want to control its online poker players, if that means no US players?

Does anyone care about the UK "White List" if the US opens its cyber-doors to everyone?

Of course, the U.S. is not going to abandon the UIGEA anytime soon but the Congress did hold hearings yesterday and listening in might be of some educational benefit, but congressional hearings are boring, so let's just go for the high and low points:

I have been reading all of the year end poker articles and blogs the past several days. You don't need me to give you another recap of the year in poker, so I thought I would look for the one single event or change that has taken place in poker that was the most significant happening in 2007. My pick:

Around the world, wherever governments have attempted to limit access or prevent access to online poker; wherever this has happened, the games have gotten harder to beat.