I Don't Know Why This is Taking So Long....

Read the following, from the Casino City Times, and then come back here, and post your thoughts. Personally, most of the major online casinos have already figured out a workaround, so, it's only a matter of time before the UIGEA goes away entirely....

clipped from www.casinocitytimes.com Players state case for lifting poker ban 26 October 2007 by Tony Batt WASHINGTON -- Poker is good for you. That's what Internet poker players are telling members of Congress this week as they lobby to exempt poker from an online gambling ban. "Really, poker is just much closer to chess than it is to the other standard casino games," said Andrew Woods, a student at Harvard Law School who has played poker to help pay for his education. Poker develops cognitive, mathematical and psychological skills which help students become successful in life, said Woods, who founded the Bruin Casino Gaming Society when he attended the University of California, Los Angeles and has helped establish the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society at Harvard. Charles Nesson, a law professor at Harvard, said he would like to teach poker to children. "I think poker has tremendous educational utility for kids," Nesson said. "I think it's a great family game." Nesson said he thinks the Internet gambling ban is vulnerable.