Frank Fahrenkopf, President and CEO of the American Gaming Commission wrote an opinion piece in Politico about online gambling, with relevance to online poker.

http://www.politico.com/story/2012/1...923.html?hp=r8

Short article but here are Cliffs:

-Online gambling is likely to see major expansion, soon.
-States are using recent DOJ opinion that only Internet sports betting should be banned to ramp-up online gambling in general.
-State-by-state approaches will lead to a "race to the bottom."
-Federal controls are needed.
-UIGEA Act of 2012 should be passed.
-Congress is consumed with other issues (duh).
-Failure to address online gambling at Federal level is something we can't afford.

Not all that new, but concise appraisal provided of current situation.

Also pretty clear that the Federal legislation his casino backers are going to promote will exclude Stars, Tilt, etc

I hope so, I feel so bad that USA decided to tell WTO to stick it about poker , and yet are still involved with organization.

The American Gaming Commission wants federal regulation for online gambling?

And have us only player pool, which is why I prefer state model overall.