Guess you'll find out when it happens. Wouldn't try anything too crazy though, if i were you.

It would suck to grind 8 hours a day for 6 monts just to have your funds seized at the end of the year...

havn't seen yet what the timeline on implementation is?

Wrote my rep and she didn't even vote

It just passed a committee vote and has several major hurdles before anything is law. Don't go counting your chips just yet.

You are of course absolutely right RGC2005. But I am reminded of a saying by the physicist Neils Bohr: The opposite of a little truth is false, the oppsite of a great truth is also true.

This is a day for us to celebrate, at least a little.

4 years ago at about this same time the House of Representatives voted 3-1 in favor of a law banning all online gaming, a bill far worse than the UIGEA that became law through Frist's well-known Senate manipulation of the same year.

In 4 years (really 2 and 1/2 - the period since the PPA was reorganized) we poker players have gone from being nobody on Capitol Hill to being the primary grass-roots force that just got an actual online legalization bill passed by a major House Committee.

I'll have a drink to that!

And tomorrow I'll remember that we still have a long, long way to go.

Skallagrim

Ignore the intentionally (if that is a problem) ... doesn't this seem like an odd (unconstitutional?) law?

E.g. like passing a law saying "any company that has ever broken law X can never do business in the USA again". E.g. "let X be commit the crime of bribery anywhere in the world" (common practice in many foreign jurisdictions). Would such a law be constitutional?

i just hope the tax isn't so big that it diminishes a poker player's edge

I suspect the same -- more incentive programs and less need for affiliates. My point was that it won't go away because of taxation.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I appreciate the FB post.

Definitely.

I think he's really personally opposed to this.

Read through this thread, but can't make up if this bill will allow euro players.
Or will the US be cut off like france and italy?

No site has operations based in Washington state. It's not at all clear that Washington state has jurisdiction over actions of sites based in other nations. Even if the U.S. is not willing to concede this point, it's not clear that Washington state has a right to regulate interstate commerce, either. If the bill passes as it stands now, we can expect the current sites to apply for licenses and to make their cases.

UIGEA only applies if the underlying conduct violates other laws. The sites have legal opinions that they do not. In accordance with UIGEA, sites have made this opinion available to financial institutions.

Please be the case

Please let me be able to play on Pokerstars.us or HarrahStars etc

Good luck with all these changes guys!!

How long you think this whole process will take

Is there a nice thank you letter we can send to our district Aye voter?

What dose this mean for players from Australia? Dose this change anything?

I read through the whole thread but dont quite understand.

A great TY to Engineer, Skall, Papas, and the PPA. Great work! The politics of this is pure gold. The leader of the tea party caucus, Ms. Bachmann, doesn't think you at home should have the choice to play online poker. You don't deserve that option in life as you do the best you can to pursue happiness. The governement needs to protect you from yourself. That is the America she believes in. Next time you see her railing against gangster government, about how the government is out of control and gutting your freedom, REMEMBER THIS VOTE. Talk is cheap biitch. The republican party does not believe in personal freedom, 18 nays to 7 yays. That big gubment democrat party does, 34 yays to 4 nays.

/end rant speaking the truth

Dose somone have an answer please?

Do Countries outside of the US have to start paying tax on their winnings?

What dose this mean for Aus players?

FWIW, I agree with an earlier poster that rakeback would be as good as gone.

why would a US law change your australian tax laws?

I dont know. I am just wigging out thinking this changes somthing for players in Aus.

Sing it!

ive read through that thread but i still dont get it...

will pokerstars/fulltilt be banned??
what does this mean for us euro-players? can we still play with u americans?
why do some people say goodbye to rakeback??

very confused now...

I agree with this. In my experience casinos are ruthless with the way they rape the players. Just look at the wsop as an example with their $900+100 BS and tbh that's pretty lax compared to what a lot of casinos do.

I haven't heard anything about this, any info on it? Estimates for chance it passes or a summary of it??