Online Gambling Advocates Get Big Supporter In Al D’Amato

A big supporter from New York. Alfonse D’Amato, a former senator of the state and current Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance, stated he is in favor of making Online Poker legal in the United States.

D’Amato said, He did not understand “why it is ok for a group of friends to sit around the kitchen table and play a friendly game of poker, but not ok for people to play over their computers. D’Amato stated that the basic structure of online poker does not in anyway violate the current federal laws. The Interstate Wire Act of 1961, which relates to sports betting, and not poker as those opposed to the notion have said.

D’Amato and Poker Players Alliance Director John Pappas have now joined forces to support a bill that would legalize the industry.

Pappas said that banks are discouraged to do business with online poker companies, in securing no illegal activity is occurring. “There a safe harbor already embedded in the law, so that any bank that does want to transact with an online poker business simply needs a reasoned legal opinion that their client is not involved in restricted transactions.

Since 2006 online gambling has been outlawed in the United States, but a new bill sent to the floor considered and then passed, would be a huge victory for USA Online Casinos. Revenue could potentially leap to high levels.