COMPANIES While online poker companies and US gamblers have greeted this year’s proposed legalisation measures with enthusiasm, such efforts are unlikely to succeed without further support from traditional bricks and mortar casinos.
The most recent important move by online gaming supporters in Congress came in August, when senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey introduced a bill that would exempt “games of skill”, which it explicitly defined to include poker, chess and backgammon, from gambling bans.
