The AGA shaking their buggy whips at the modern online poker upstarts daring to make money with innovative gaming. PartyPoker went public eons ago and still the AGA was clutching the wing chairs in the red velvet lounges of gambling denial.
Wake up AGA ... computers are not magic boxes. Gambling has been revolutionized. The AGA should have been at the FRONT OF THE LINE to regulate online gambling after PartyPoker went public for a few billion dollars. That would have taken work. The U.S. DOJ has successfully launched an Online Poker Prohibition in the U.S. while the entire world basks in an economic gambling boom with poker leading the way. Total silence from the AGA when they should have been at the DOJ door banging about freedom and the right to play poker as adults on a computer.
France ... yes FRANCE put together their version of the AGA and helped the government write online poker regulations in six months, causing a hundreds of millions of revenue for the government and a general gambling revenue spike for the industry because poker players like to also gamble.
The solution? The AGA should take a reality pill ... online gaming is here to stay and the U.S. DOJ position of saving those millions of poor, defenseless adult citizens of the U.S. from the evils of online gaming is not good news really to an organization called the American Gaming Association. The Online Poker Prohibition could easily morph into a more general gambling prohibition given a really conservative government downstream. The AGA should be on PokerStar's side.
Their opposition is simply shooting yourself in the foot long-term. AGA ... get with the program ... this is the 21st century and everyone uses a computer / iPhone / tablet.
Today I played a few hands of PLO on PokerStars waiting at the Optometrist ... I am allowed because I am in the true land of the free ... Canada. It should be allowed in the U.S. and the AGA should be a booster in the progress.