 The United States Republican Party and its current leader, President George Bush and its candidate for President, John McCain have attempted to pull a fast one on the U.S. poker players. First, in what appeared to be a response to the email barrage from the Poker Players Alliance, the party removed anti-online gaming language from the party platform. And they made a big deal about it to the media.
No so much noise when a few hours later they slipped this language back in to their party policy platform:
“Millions of Americans suffer from problem or pathological gambling that can destroy families. We support legislation prohibiting gambling over the Internet or in student athletics by student athletes who are participating in competitive sports.”
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I guess all U.S. poker players now have a clear statement by the republicans about what they think of your right to play poker online. Now what are you going to do about it?
 I hate spam and I would never solicit anyone to send spam but in this is really more like poker activism or perhaps simply Enlightened Governmental Expression.
The Republican Party in the U.S. has had this plank in their presidential platform for the last two elections.
"We support legislation prohibiting gambling over the Internet."
Now I know a lot of poker players who really want the government to get the hell out of our living rooms and our laptops but... they are not single issue voters and cannot bring themselves to vote for a democrat even though the republicans are against online poker. So there is a solution: TELL THEM!
The folks writing the 2008 republican party platform are soliciting input from voters and since email cannot be traced to a city, state or country... Everyone should feel free to let them know what you think on this issue.
It's easy, here's how to let them know you are watching:
* Go to this site to register.(you’ll receive an email with your password for the site).
* Click "Submit Text Entry" (at the top right) to submit a typed message.
* Write a short pro-poker message, choose a category, then click submit. It's that easy!
For any non-poker readers, there are lots of other topics to sound off about. I gave them a piece of my mind on stem cell research while I was there.
 Turkish daily newspaper "Zaman" has reported that the Turkish government now intends to punish any residents caught playing poker on the internet. Caught that is, not playing on the Turkish government site.
The fine will be 100 Turkish Lira for every game they are caught playing. The article hinted that over 4,000 players have already been identified as illegal poker players and that, on average, they have been found to have played 12 games online or an average 1200 Lira fine. I guess multi-screening would be a bad bankroll choice in Turkey.
Remember the Turks are not against gambling and the country's IDDAA gaming firm is partially owned by the state. They only wish to keep foreign companies out of the Turkish market.
Isn't it great that more advanced, democratic governments like the United Kingdom, France, United States and Germany are not engaging in such over zealous regulation. Oh wait, they are!
Better that the locals play the Government's game, and so allow the Government to keep all and any profits. Either that or live in a country that prohibits online poker completely.
 Several poker sites in the EU and around the world have commenting recently about the lack of US poker players on international websites. Since the UIGEA passed the US Congress over a year ago the number of poker players in the United States with access to international online poker sites has dropped and continues to fall.
The fact is that the US market still makes up a large majority of players but that number is dropping while numbers in our countries continue to rise. While it would seem a balance has been reached with players in and out of the market. The non-US sites note that players from the United States tend to have more disposable income to invest in the game and they have more consistent access to the internet.
The regulations to stop poker deposits from being made are currently being semi-enforced in the US makes the market going forward unclear. If these regulations are legislatively sustained and poker players in the US find it more difficult to make deposits, such problems will affect poker player's bankrolls worldwide. The global pool of poker dollars has been diminished by the US Federal Laws and do not seem to be recovering with new sources in other countries.
Indeed some localities are pressing laws similar to those proposed in the United States. If you live in any country or provence considering such restrictive legislation; learn this lesson from the US poker players: Speak up early and continue to make your displeasure with any poker restrictive legislation. It is easier to stop a law then it is to change it once it gets on the record.
By: Lenny – November 20, 2007
 Several online poker sites are going to show the hole cards of final table players in their bigger events. There are several reasons for this and several mechanisms for revealing the hole cards.
The first reason, that no online site is going to admit to, is security. After the fiasco at Absolute Poker last month, everyone wants to be bending over backwards to make it clear to the online players that everything is fair and secure. What better way to do that then to show every player's hole cards.
Now the "reason" the online site are giving is that it makes following a final table more interesting but that runs into a snag because you cannot show the hole cards in real time. (If you don't know why, stop reading now!). So the hole card reveal must be on some type of delay, which takes some of the fun out of watching the final table live. The WSOP encountered the same issues with its ill-fated Sequestrium this past summer.
So either the entire final table is shown with hole cards after the table play is complete OR there is some type of delay. The problem with just a delay is that players still at the final table can get information on how another player is playing hands in nearly real time.
So far the only sites using the hole card reveal are doing it with a delay until after the event is concluded, which takes us back to our original argument about this being all about security and very little about entertainment for the cyber-railbirds.
 I went to the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas yesterday to catch the speech by former US Senator Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Poker Players' Alliance lobbying organization. The highlight of the good Senator's presentation came when he actually said that he expects the legalization of online poker in the United States within 18 months.
Quite frankly I was surprised to hear this because as a long-time Washington insider, D'Amato knows that unringing the bell on a law is a lot more difficult than passing the bill in the first place. Most serious watchers of the DC scene do not feel that their is anywhere near critical mass support to overturn the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act. But several sources have sounded hopeful notes in the last several weeks. So back to the good Senator and others, who are closer to the issue than I.
Joining D'Amato on theState of the Industry: Internet Gambling at the Crossroads panel were: J. Terrence Lanni, chairman and CEO of MGM MIRAGE; Gary Loveman, chairman, CEO and president of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.; and Andre Wilsenach, CEO of the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.
 It makes sense that you don't advertise a product in a market where you cannot sell the product. But if you live in single restricted market you might never even know that another, perhaps better, product exists.
Due to various governmental interventions the ability to play online poker is restricted in many countries. The United States, of course, has had the UIGEA law for over a year. France continues to limited access to its internet public, as does Turkey, Sweden and several other EU countries. The UK has some bizarre advertising regulations based on where you put your servers and there are the still unclear but heavily controlled or banned practices in China, India, Indonesia and the rest of the Far East. Governments in South America and Africa are each devising more or less restrictive regulations to control how citizens there will access the "free" internet.
So if you live in one of these restricted locations (and you do!) not only are you prevented from playing poker on some of your favorite sites, you will not even know that many new poker sites are appearing everyday. Contrary to the common perception in heavily regulated areas, the choices for online poker are increasing worldwide not decreasing.
The Guardian Unlimited ran a unique and comprehensive discussion on the state of online poker in the United States, several sections are excerpted below with added links for those who might like a fuller view of the entire legal and international trade process unfolding.
More than 100 of America's top poker players descended on Washington earlier this week to lobby politicians to rescind the controversial law that aims to prohibit online gambling.
Earlier this week the World Trade Organisation and the US announced that they needed more time to work out the envisaged billions of dollars worth of compensation, as the ban (Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act) breaks global trade rules.
At the same time, American legal and banking experts are attempting to decipher just how the ban will work when the law is finally implemented.
It was last October the then Senate majority leader Bill Frist, a Republican, pushed though the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), almost his last accomplishment before he retired, to protect children and problems gamblers from going astray.
The UIGEA does not ban online gambling per se but, when implemented, makes it illegal for banks and credit card companies to facilitate payments to and from gambling businesses.
 With more news everyday from around the world, what exactly is the state of online poker today?
Clearly when considering a worldwide regulatory environment there is not enough space in one blog, one article or one book to cover all of the issues but let's look at some recent developments.
The big three in online poker remain: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Party Poker but the numbers have been changing.
PokerStars leapt to the top of the market when Party Poker left the US market after the passage of the UIGEA. But most industry watchers credit the continuing #1 position to the PokerStars sponsorship of the European Poker Tour.
Full Tilt Poker, on the other hand, while still in a solid second place is now often tied with the former leader Party Poker. Full Tilt continues to enhance its market share via its ever growing sponsorship of Full Tilt Professionals.
Party Poker continues to build its brand worldwide, diligently avoiding confrontations with any individual government's regulatory system; while focusing attention on those markets that remain open.
Some poker sites no longer serving U.S. players will let you log-in but will not let you sit down at a money table. Others simply do not recognize your account. Full Contact Poker (Daniel Negreanu's) site has been scrambling to find new software to allow U.S. bound players to play again. For several weeks the message from Full Contact has been:
"Could not connect to server. The account is not activated."
Interesting wording but effective.
Today Full Contact announced the beta test of new software. Don't try to log-in to the FCP site, the old "we don't know you" message is still up. To get back to fully contacting your bankroll try here.
No word yet on when the "beta" goes fully live.
Former Baywatch star, Amateur porn star and general celebrity bimbo Pamela Anderson has shut down her online gaming website PamelaPoker.com, four months after it launched.
On her personal website, right next to her plan for peace in the middle east, the actress says she regrets her involvement in poker completely:
"Poker site should have been shut down last month.
"I have nothing to do with it anymore. Too many shady areas... I made a mistake getting involved in something I know nothing about for a quick buck! "Yuck. So unlike me. Glad it's over."
Days earlier Anderson moaned on her website there was too much red tape involved with the project, saying:
"Too bad my poker site fell apart - too many rules in USA. No fun."
And to think, all the things the Godfather Doyle did for her, I truly hope she doesn't own any horses.
For more enhanced coverage...
 It's not that I'm unpatriotic, but after the passage of the UIGEA I did find myself humming "Oh Canada," wearing my Team Canuck Poker hat, and checking out the cost of living in the lands to the north. But after reading about the legal winds blowing in Ontario, I think I may have to scale that new 700 mile fence and head south.
Amid all the legalistic hubbub, a potentially serious situation may or may not have developed over at Ultimate Bet last week ... according to this surprisingly sober thread on StoxPoker, an army of Bots was unleashed on UB. Like more than 40 of them. And though there has been no official confirmation, the original poster's investigative work done with PokerTracker combined with human interaction seems as convincing of anything poker-conspiratorial I've ever read. Click above and judge for yourself.
One of the forum people asks:
Is it against any law to have bots playing? I sure hope so.. it seems like poker sites dont really care.. they gett there share anyway
... and this I think is one of the more interesting issues in play. Because as of now, no ... trying to file charges against Bots (or Bot-makers) seems akin to going to the police trying to get your money back on a crack deal gone awry. But it should be illegal (or at least worthy of legislative consideration). These are the kinds of poker laws that would be good for people. And when it comes to setting legal precedents for the internet in general, combating malicious software will likely be a more important issue in the future.
Link props: Haley (again!) at KAP
 As online gaming companies respond to the new US legislative terrain, they are falling into two camps. Publicly traded companies are taking the safe route and divesting or blocking access in the US. The private companies tip toe on. This makes sense when you consider the added risk of being a public company; the regulatory environment, the added burden of shareholder liability, and the comparitive ease of prosecution.
Excapsa (UltimateBet's parent company) was one of the anomalies. They were publicly traded and yet continued to affirm their committment to the US market. Well the other shoe dropped; they are public no more. PokerStars is another company that is still dallying in the US market. It came as no surprise that PokerStars postponed its planned $1.6 billion IPO to go public last week. It was a choice: give up the US or stay private.
It's not like the public companies are less loyal or are behaving with knee-jerk reaction. They just knew that as publicly traded and regulated companies they had bigger bulls eyes painted on their chests. At the first sign of a carve-out for poker - or the legal test case that determines poker is not a game of chance - they are poised to serve us once again. Build it and they will come (back).
This is an informational post only. No criticism of any legislation is intended nor implied (except for that one line).
A fairly comprehensive list of poker rooms that will keep their gates open to USA online poker players has been issued by Compatiblepoker.com. The page also includes sites not willing to accept Americans anymore because of the online poker ban. Included sites are Poker Stars, Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, Absolute Poker, Bush is a Wacko Poker, and others.
Some sites have even declared special bonuses for USA players. Compatible Poker has arranged its own bonus deal with FullTilt, which is pimped on the page. Their recommended sites are, of course, the sites they have affliate deals with but the list is still fairly comprehensive and covers a majority of the large and medium size online providers.
Well if you're like me or the other millions of Party players that logged onto Party today, then you most likely ran into the "PartyGaming has ceased accepting wagers and deposits from U.S. customers." How unfortunate...oh well Bodog, Full Tilt, and PokerStars, here I come!
Shame on me for sharing personal, private emails between me and the team with the world, but this addendum from Change100 I found simply too humorous and relevant to not post:
P.S.-- Is it just me, or are online poker games playing like it's the last night of the world right now? I haven't had this good a week in 6+ mos. Viva la Party Poker!
Hmm, maybe I was one of those tilters ... because I pretty much drained all my online accounts not by withdrawing funds, but by chasing open-ended straights.
Full Tilt players received a reassuring e-mail in their In boxes this evening. The text of the message is below, but to sum it up, Full Tilt essentially states the law is pointless, doesn't affect poker, and business will continue to run as usual.
These "line in the sand" type statements should rapidly expand the Full Tilt player base as players with closed accounts cash out and load up there. The result? More hot marshmallow peep sex for the rest of us.
E-mail text after the jump:
In one of the first public responses from a high-profile poker pro on the passage of the online gambling legislation, Daniel Negreanu just offered his two cents about the law in a stinging post on his blog. Here's the most scathing excerpt:
"The weasel (remember, that's Bill Frist), claims that online gambling is a way in which terrorists go about laundering money. Come off it? How do you say that with a straight face? Weasel, do you have any proof whatsoever that any terrorist group has used online poker accounts to launder money? Any at all?
The weasel is a self-righteous douche bag who has decided to push upon us his moral agenda by claiming that online poker is "bad." Has he ever played poker? Probably not. Does he even understand that it's different from slot machines? Probably not. Does he even realize that many Americans put food on the table by playing online poker? Probably not, and I doubt he cares. He thinks "gambling is wrong" so we all have to have the same view of it as he does."
An owner and celebrity endorser of Full Contact Poker, Negreanu also states that he believes that business will go on as usual for the smaller, privately owned sites.
"As for the majority of privately owned sites, it will be business as usual. Frankly, as moronic and intrusive as this bill is, there is really no need to panic. The bill states that banks have 270 days to comply with the law. Most banks, especially smaller ones, won't even have the resources to do that as I understand it."
Of course, Negreanu is only a poker player, not a legal scholar or a psychic-- these are only his opinions. An interesting, relevant read nonetheless.
 So, how did the thoroughbred racing industry ensure their carve-out in the online gambling legislation? As the U.K. newspaper The Independent examines today, they pretty much (a) organized and got their shit together and (b)put money in the right pockets, including those of original bill architect Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who was one of the top four recipients of campaigh contributions from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. The NTRA met with Goodlatte as well as other influential Republicans and "educated" them on all things horsey, ensuring their legal carve-out in the bill.
The article also suggests that the online gaming companies (after tearing their hair out in anguish) have learned a great deal from the racing industry's lobbying efforts and are vowing to mount similar campaigns in the near future in pursuit of their own carve-out, or a new piece of legislation that would fully regulate internet gaming.
In a just-issued press release, the World Poker Tour declares that (a) THEY'RE the ones responsible for the poker boom, thank you very much and (b)they could give a rat's ass about the passage of the online gambling legislation because they already think American internet poker players are criminals.
Statements to the former:
"WPT Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: WPTE), the company that helped launch the current global poker boom..."
"'It was a wide-spread love of this game and the reinvention of poker as a televised sport that ignited the poker phenomenon,' said Steve Lipscomb, CEO and founder of WPTE. 'And, that is what will continue to drive the future of the sport.'"
"The WORLD POKER TOUR launched the poker phenomenon when it first aired on the Travel Channel on March 30, 2003, and it continues to lead the way in developing poker as a major international sport."
Statements to the latter:
”The Justice Department has been very clear that it believes online gaming to be illegal in the United States and our policies have been always been tailored accordingly,” said Adam Pliska, General Counsel of WPTE. “This law clarifies the rules and makes it possible for everyone to move forward on an even footing.”
So, yeah. Pretty much reiterating what Steve Lipscomb & Co. already said two months ago in their response to the Lederer/Duke/Gordon/Raymer/et. al lawsuit. In laymans terms? "Moneymaker who? And what is this Party Poker? Pshaw!! We created you and we will destroy you!"
 Deep Throat: Follow the money.
Bob Woodward: What do you mean? Where?
Deep Throat: Oh, I can't tell you that.
- All the President's Men
Would it surprise you that Harrah's Entertainment ranked #13 on Bill Frist's list of top campaign contributors' for most of the 1990s? Nah. The way hypocrisy is running rampant in the halls of the United States Congress today, it wouldn't shock me if I found out that Dennis Hastert was running a whorehouse out of the Republican cloakroom.
After reading that statistic (thanks Drizz!), my curiosity was peaked. So I decided to take a look and see which other proponents of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (H.R. 4411) were stuffing their pockets with the gaming industry's money.
At least 7 of the top 20 recipients of campaign contributions from the gaming industry for the 2006 election cycle voted FOR H.R. 4411 including the following hypocrites representatives:
Business Week's article "Online Gambling Still in the Cards?" is definitely worth a read for those seeking an optimistic take on the events of what is now being dubbed industry-wide as "Black Monday." Contending that online poker has not specifically been outlawed and that payment loopholes will likely continue to exist, the piece includes commentary from multiple corners of the industry including original bill architect Rep. Bob Goodlatte who admits that the language that was passed was far weaker than he'd have preferred. It also features some utterly brain-damaged quotes from conservative nutjob Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, who co-sponsored the bill and arm-wrestled Bill Frist into jamming it through:
"Religious leaders of all denominations and faiths are seeing gambling problems erode family values...If Congress had not acted, gamblers would soon be able to place bets not just from home computers, but from their cell phones while they drive home from work or their BlackBerries as they wait in line at the movies."
The New York Times and the L.A. Times both ran in-depth pieces in their business sections today on the $15 billion Harrah's buyout offer.
MSNBC has the word on how gaming shares did in Tuesday's trading. In a nutshell? Not good.
Around the poker blogosphere and the forums, response to the online gaming legislation has run the gamut from cashout hysteria to sober analysis to well, slightly less sober analysis. Check it out after the jump:
The U.S. banking industry just issued some of their first comments on the internet gambling ban in this International Herald-Tribune piece. In a nutshell, despite the ban, banks will still be able to process transactions from Neteller, et. al. since these "online wallets" are not specifically wagering companies. Furthermore, most banks do not currently have technology in place to track deposits in the way the legislation would have them do. Thus, the law is unenforceable.
It's far from a silver lining, but at this point, I think we'll take whatever good news we can get.
All around the nation today, degenerate gamblers are waking up, logging on, and finding out that their entertainment options have just become severely limited. I'm curious as to what everyone's thoughts are, and how you think your poker-playing will change.
 I half-joked with my roommate last night that we needed to install a security camera over the front door and set up a poker club in our empty front room. Being a law-abiding citizen, he quickly shot down the idea, but you can rest assured there will be many many others who won't. For most of us, it's illegal to play in these games, but that's where the action is going. Just like Prohibition forced drinkers to the underground, poker players are now going to have to put on some pants and actually leave the house in order to get a game.
And just like Prohibition lead to increased crime, so will this ban on online poker. New poker rooms will spring up across the country, and they won't all be running safe, secure, clean games. Already we hear tales of armed robbers busting in on games, and of players being assulted on their way home. I would expect we'll hear more and more of these in the coming months. I doubt they will prompt any effort to repeal the ban; at least not until there is a major high profile case (i.e., some Senator himself gets robbed).
I know many would disagree with me, but I do think there is a chance for repeal. I don't think it will happen soon, and no, I don't think Democrats taking over the House and Senate will be the panacea we're all looking for. [But full disclosure - I will always encourage you to vote Dem, so by all means, give it a shot.] What I think will make the biggest impact is the money train. Harrah's, for example, has a lot of it laying around (as we know), and if this ban even remotely hurts their profit margin (which I expect it will), the next step would be to use that cash for some Congressional influence. Though again, I don't see that happening soon.
I would also expect to see more people making trips to Las Vegas, if not moving there. We'll have to see if we get an influx of fish or if a proportional number of sharks swim in too. And knowing that we have no other options available, are we going to get better service? There's even more motivation to cut corners and perks now.
I think many of the big name online sites are taking a wait-and-see approach, giving their legal teams time to review the legislation and come up with options. I won't be surprised to see more sites closing U.S. accounts. I also won't be surprised when we start seeing ads on Craiglist offering to set up a foreign address and bank account for would-be online gamblers.
So what are your thoughts? Do you think the ban will last? Do you plan on altering your playing habits as a result of it, making more trips to Vegas or other local casinos, or playing in more home-run card rooms? Do you think more states will legalize gaming in an effort to pick up some of the lost revenue? Or do you think the fish will give up the game forever now that it's not so easy to play it, and poker as we know it has come to an end?
The House Rules Committee passed the conference committee report that included the anti-gambling measures. You can read it here, starting at page 214.
Senate is currently debating a Parental Notification Bill (well, actually, they're debating on how much longer to debate on the bill). We can assume the Safe Ports bill will be up soon. It is highly unlikely that it will not pass.
You can keep tabs on things with industry insiders over at 2+2, or follow along on C-SPAN2
9:35pm (central) - Senate is talking about bill now. Frank Lautenberg from NJ is questioning why Democratic provisons were taken out of the bill but the online gambling part was put in. We love him.
"They stripped out important provisions, but made sure that it was illegal to play Texas Hold'Em poker games on your computer."
9:42pm Susan Collins, R-Maine, is speaking now. No mention of the ban, just tooting their horn.
9:56pm - Quorum Call - checking to see who's in.
10:03pm - Call over. Back to discussion, though now they're referring to the earlier measure that was passed, putting a fence up on the border.
Loved this post from 2+2 -
Great 2 day stretch for our government...legalize torture, get rid of habeus corpus, and it turns out the speaker of the house knew that the congressman in charge of the committee on missing and exploited children was having dirty AIM chats with 16 year olds, let's now deal with a real threat...internet gambling.
10:11pm - Sounds like something is up. Quorum calls are a great way for Senators to have private discussions under the pretense of offical actions. That room is empty, they know there's no quorum. And now we're not talking about the Port Security act at all, but it'll be back.
10:23pm - Passed Senate, 80-19. House apparently still debating it.
10:29pm - Leach now talking about ban.
"One of the most important pieces of family legislation ever considered."
"Never has it been so easy to lose so much, so quickly, at such a young age."
10:35pm - Rep. John Dingell, D-MI is talking about how the bill was drafted without Democratic input, how many of the measures the House wanted were left out. It's maddening to be sure, but I don't think it's going to be enough.
10:44pm - Loretta Sanchez, D-CA
"If you have time to stick internet gambling in our port bill, then I think you could have held a meeting today, or tomorrow if we had to stay an extra day, or tomorrow if we had to stay an extra day, to make our country safer."
10:47pm - Richard King, R-NY is now speaking about how awesome the bill is because everyone worked together, and he just can't understand why people are pissed. Apparently he missed the speech from Rep. Sanchez that clearly said they were pissed because they took out the rail security, didn't allow admendments, but put in this internet ban.
10:52pm As I told Dan, it's these last minute governmental clusterfucks that just confirm my decision to never get in to government.
Here's the deal - CSPAN2 ran a ticker saying the Senate had passed the bill. But the Senate website isn't showing that. Maybe it's late. Maybe the guy manning CSPAN is drunk. [Actually, that ticker probably referred to their passage of the previous bill, before it went to the conference committee that created this new bill.] Right now the Senate is engaged in another quorum call. Perhaps they're out kicking puppies.
 The Poker Player's Alliance just sounded the siren to its thousands of members to take action. Apparently, Sen. Bill Frist got his way and the anti-gambling legislation is being attached to a different piece of legislation (not the DoD bill as previously reported, but a Port Security bill) that will be voted on this evening.
It's time to burn up those phone lines. Call your senators NOW.
Here's the text of the PPA's message:
The U.S. Congress is Trying to Ban Online Poker TODAY!!!
THIS IS NOT A TEST -- Call Your Senator Now
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is attaching the Internet Gambling
Prohibition Act to a bill that is expected to be approved by the Congress
early this evening. PLEASE call your Senators today and tell them that
they should oppose the Internet gambling bill being part of Port Security
legislation.
If the Port Security bill passes, with the Internet gambling language
included, your ability to enjoy poker online will be at serious risk.
Each member of the Poker Players Alliance has two Senators which are
listed below. They need to hear from you RIGHT NOW! Let them know
that you care about your rights to play poker.
Please Call!!! Tell your Senators to oppose attaching Internet gambling to
Port Security!
The complete list of U.S. Senators' names and numbers follows the jump.
I was so ready to dance the horah last night when I read Dan's post about the Online Gambling Legislation being dead in the Senate. But like a loser on tilt who picks up pocket aces, I knew something had to be wrong. So I found this article in the Congressional newspaper The Hill which confirmed my fears of an impending suckout.
The Online Gambling Legislation is not dead. It's horribly, horribly alive.
In a nutshell, here's what's happening right now:
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