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Six Month Delay on UIGEA
It was recently announced that the UIGEA will be delayed for six months. The news came out just last week that the rules enforcing the implementation the UIGEA will be delayed for six months. This is excellent news for poker players.
PPA Has $3 Million Available to Lobby Congress for Online Poker
The Poker Players Alliance has been trying very hard to get the United States Congress to overturn the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The chairman of the PPA, Alfonse D’Amato, recently announced that for the upcoming session of Congress the PPA has $3 million to lobby for the overturn of the UIGEA or at least have online poker exempted from the UIGEA.
Obama Asks What Americans Want: Legal Online Poker!
On Change.gov, the official web site of Barrack Obama, the US President-elect has asked Americans to voice what changes they wish to see in the coming administration. Ranking #2 on the list is a call for regulation of legal online poker. As the new President Obama prepares to take office, being a professed poker player, [...]
Senator Proposes New Legal Online Poker Bill, S. 3616
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez has introduced a new bill, S. 3616, aimed to legalize and regulate Internet skill games in the United States. The Bill, deemed “Internet Skill Games Licensing and Control Act of 2008â€Â, would effectively decriminalize the transfer of funds for the purpose of playing online poker, bridge and mahjong. Menendez’s bill defines [...]
US Online Poker News: Barney Frank’s HR 6870 Passes In Committee
Since the deceptive passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006, Congressman Barney Frank has spent a great deal of time and effort to halt the enforcement of the bill and further clarify its intentions. Yesterday, Frank got one step closer when his proposed bill, HR 6870 – the Payments System Protection [...]
Online Poker Community Disgruntled By HR 6663 Proposed To Clarify UIGEA
According to Congressman Robert Sessions (R-Texas), his proposed bill, HR 6663, was detailed to clarify the confusing aspects of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) set forth in October of 2006. However, the bill does more than clarify the UIGEA, adding implications that the UIGEA never even mentioned – specifically the legalities of online [...]
