Probable confusion caused by HR 6663

The chairman of the one million members Poker Players Alliance, Former Senator Alphonse D'Amato states that the Alliance is not able to backup Texas Representative Pete Session's Bill HR6663 since it puzzles an unambiguous legal comprehension of the status quo of online poker.

HR6663 is intended to principally to decide what is legitimate and illegitimate with the puzzling UIGEA, and permit official pardon from prosecution to those companies that gave up supplying internet gambling services in the USA except sportsbetting after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act has passed out as a law in October 2006. The bill recognizes one of the main vagueness of the UIGEA - whether online poker and casino games such as online blackjack are authorized within the United States, saying: “Federal Internet gambling litigation have concerned sports betting, producing a vacancy of reliable court conclusions on the adaptive flexibility of other national illegal statutes to Internet poker and casino-style gambling.”

With Congress presently in its August recess, argument on the suggestion is not able to occur, and it is not able to move further than the House Judiciary Committee until September, when the politicians reconvene.

In a announcement, D’Amato explaines: “The PPA stays alarmed with the insinuation HR 6663 states that the UIGEA has forced internet poker to be illegitimate activity that requires exceptional protection. Preceding federal case law (re: MasterCard 2002) has clarified that active national illegal law (WIRE Act of 1961) is relevant only to internet sports betting and not to internet poker. Additionally, the UIGEA itself explains, ‘No stipulation of this subchapter is supposed to be construed as altering, limiting or extending any federal or state law.’

"Thus HR 6663 only confuses a clear judicial standing on this matter.”

If HR6663 is authorized, it has the possibility to let main companies that withdrew from the US market post-UIGEA, including 888.com and Party Poker, free of blame, perhaps letting loose these corporate of the burden of serious resolution punishments, a matter on which individual managements are believed that they are negotiating with Department of Justice officials. If the company was not providing Americans sportsbetting, HR6663 might comprise an official pardon for past activities.

Casino News: Probable confusion caused by HR 6663

Probable confusion caused by HR 6663