Federal Online Poker Measure Could be Voted on This Month

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I wish it would come true , crossing my fingers as well for you guys/girls and everyone in the US
its sad it should be like this, but still there is hope yet as i also read there.
 
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Here's hoping it gets passed :)
 
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According to the following article Joe Barton says it is not dead yet. We can only hope:

http://www.gambling911.com/gambling...oker-measure-could-be-voted-month-070912.html

I wouldn't count on it just yet,

Don't mean to be negative, but it's going to be a state by state thing.....

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20120710/NEWS01/207100332/Lawmakers-remain-optimistic-move-legalize-online-poker?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

Too much hesitation in Washington, being an election year and the Tribal communities have a lot of pull in every house and senate.
 
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I'm not holding my breath. A divided Congress that can't pass gas and an election year. Not going to happen, I hope I'm wrong, but... :(
 
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why all the teasing and leaks? are poker players being used by different factions for their own agenda....?

-possible agendas anyone???
- media news??
- doj trying to wear down hope of players so they forget about their money locked into full tilt?
- brick and mortar poker rooms need time to catch up on software developement? ?

- lawyers dragging things out to pad their hours???
 
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Yep, best bet here is to not hold your breathe...you wont get these bozos to budge this close to an election...you would do much better hoping for change from the king bozo in the whitehouse by executive privilege wanting to buy your vote...
 
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sure hope they get it done at the federal level
 
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The odd of this thing pasting doesn't look great, but I really hope it does
 
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odds arent great, but there is still a chance.. odds arent great for someone to hit a 1 outer on the river but its all happened to us.
 
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Got my fingers crossed for all my American friends, but is it too much to ask for the US government, any government for that matter, to do the right thing?
 
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Call your Senators and Congressmen

Your senators and congressmen (especially the Republican ones) need to hear from you. You can be sure they are hearing from the religious right.

http://www.lvrj.com/business/heller-working-with-gop-leaders-to-legalize-web-poker-163091626.html

Heller's comments come amid a new wave of speculation about prospects for a federal bill, as a handful of states are moving to legalize online gambling within their jurisdictions. Gambling Compliance, an industry online newsletter, reported last week that key senators Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., have agreed on a framework for a bill.
 
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I would love to see it get passed but if nothing else I doubt Harry Reid will let it by.
 
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And with Reid saying he expects to have a bill voted on in the senate by the end of the year (co-written with Kyl, of all people), there is still some life here.

But I don't have my hopes up. This always happens -- trying to tag it onto something at the end of a congressional session. We'll see.
 
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Other than politcal BS, Native American Business Issues, the key is governing it - policing it - so kids don't get on or so those with a addiction problems or low poker IQ issues don't lose their house to an online casino. I love Poker and believe their is skill involved - and wish they would separate it from all other casino games. I hate Black Jack as well here... May be easier to pass just person vs person games first.
 
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That is what Rep Joe Barton's bill HR2366 is - poker only.
 
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i got nothing to worry about, living in delaware , where it going to be legal for us in 2013..hehehehe
 
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Senate Bill Needs Republican Support

If you have Republican senators, they need to hear from you.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20120802/NEWS/120809974/1070&ParentProfile=1058

The Las Vegas Sun conducted an unscientific poll of about 20 of the remaining Republicans, sampling from both moderates and conservatives, that revealed most have not made up their minds about poker and that one — Rand Paul of Kentucky — is likely to support an online poker bill. But many Republican undecideds were clearly leaning toward “no.”

“I generally have opposed gambling across the board in all forms. So though I have not seen the bill, I probably would oppose it,” said Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, listed as undecided in the poker community's survey.

I'm not a big fan of expanding gaming on the Internet, especially for revenue purposes,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

“Online poker? No, I wouldn't vote for it,” said Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. “I'd vote against it. I don't like gambling.”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would not answer questions this week about whether he plans to use his influence to help push for poker legislation before the election — or whether he believes doing so would help Heller in his race against Shelley Berkley.​
 
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If you have Republican senators, they need to hear from you.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20120802/NEWS/120809974/1070&ParentProfile=1058
The Las Vegas Sun conducted an unscientific poll of about 20 of the remaining Republicans, sampling from both moderates and conservatives, that revealed most have not made up their minds about poker and that one — Rand Paul of Kentucky — is likely to support an online poker bill. But many Republican undecideds were clearly leaning toward “no.”

“I generally have opposed gambling across the board in all forms. So though I have not seen the bill, I probably would oppose it,” said Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, listed as undecided in the poker community's survey.

I'm not a big fan of expanding gaming on the Internet, especially for revenue purposes,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

“Online poker? No, I wouldn't vote for it,” said Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. “I'd vote against it. I don't like gambling.”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would not answer questions this week about whether he plans to use his influence to help push for poker legislation before the election — or whether he believes doing so would help Heller in his race against Shelley Berkley.​

So much of this type of attitude is the co-mingling of online gambling and online poker . . . it is absolutely necessary that we distance poker from "gambling" so as to avoid being cast by that stigma.

It's also not a Republican vs Democrat issue, please don't try to make it one. Joe Barton is a Republican and the apparent poker hero in Congress, and the law in WA State making online gambling a felony was the work product of Democrats.

The only thing that matters is money, unless and until we get some palms greased, we won't get anything. It's up to the committee chairs where the Barton Bill is languishing and nobody else. Those committee chairs may change in January, may not.

There are also some clauses in the Barton Bill that make it so that the big casinos will be the only ones able to offer online poker, and the current sites will have to partner up or be left out
 
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It's also not a Republican vs Democrat issue, please don't try to make it one. Joe Barton is a Republican and the apparent poker hero in Congress, and the law in WA State making online gambling a felony was the work product of Democrats.

I'm not making it Republican vs Democrat issue at all. It's no secret that Republican votes are needed in the Senate to pass a poker bill.

As stated in the article I linked to in the OP:

“The only way we can get (an online poker bill) done is we need Republican votes, and we haven't gotten them yet,” Reid said Tuesday.

“I'm limited in what I can do with Republicans. I'd like a little help from my Republican colleague,” he added in a thinly veiled reference to Heller.
 
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Theres so much $$$$ to be made its just rediculous how Greedy our Government really is!!!
 
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Another issue for Obama to draw votes away from Romney this Nov.? I'm guessing it might be.
 
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There was no way I would see this happening before the election. Too much risk for the politicians. pokerstars FTP deal took a while--this will too.
 
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If you have Republican senators, they need to hear from you.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20120802/NEWS/120809974/1070&ParentProfile=1058

The Las Vegas Sun conducted an unscientific poll of about 20 of the remaining Republicans, sampling from both moderates and conservatives, that revealed most have not made up their minds about poker and that one — Rand Paul of Kentucky — is likely to support an online poker bill. But many Republican undecideds were clearly leaning toward “no.”

“I generally have opposed gambling across the board in all forms. So though I have not seen the bill, I probably would oppose it,” said Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, listed as undecided in the poker community's survey.

I'm not a big fan of expanding gaming on the Internet, especially for revenue purposes,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

“Online poker? No, I wouldn't vote for it,” said Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. “I'd vote against it. I don't like gambling.”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would not answer questions this week about whether he plans to use his influence to help push for poker legislation before the election — or whether he believes doing so would help Heller in his race against Shelley Berkley.​

Does this not bother anyone?
 
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