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After the signing into law of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 in October, many poker sites scrambled to move their operations offshore. But legal experts sa there may be no need. In essence, UIGEA makes it unlawful to accepting transactions related online gambling illegal, but this is true only if the state where the transaction originates already has an online gambling law on its books.. About half the US states do not.

Joel Stein of the LA Times wrote: I’ve seen too many of my friends get so addicted to poker that they’ve got no time left for Internet porn. And I’m not going to let that happen to me. But I didn’t expect Congress to pass the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, treating people who spend all day at partypoker.com like criminals. Maybe I’m a traditionalist, but I think of criminals as people who I can’t beat up and who do math slower than I do. It breaks my heart when the greed our nation is famous for gets trumped by the religious posturing we were founded on. It’s a horrible conundrum. Either we give up the tax receipts on the $6 billion that Americans spend gambling online, or we let people do whatever they want with their own money. It’s like making Poland choose between scowling and yelling…