Online Poker Players Beware of Crack Down

Several members of Congress are looking to place a ban on Internet gambling. Virginia U. S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte is currently heading the movement in the House to pass a bill that would make it a crime for Americans to gamble over the Internet, and Arizona Sen. John Kyl has been a heavy proponent of similar legislation.

I am one of the owners of a Nashville-based company called PocketFives. com, LLC. My company is made up of Vanderbilt graduates, each of whom found an interest in online poker and wanted to find an innovative way to promote it. We've now been running our company for well over a year, and our Web site has blossomed. I have come to realize just how many people are getting something positive out of this game. Early on in the life of our business, we saw Tennessee heavily promoting the lottery via television ads, including a recently-launched World Series of Poker scratch off game that was endorsed by Nashville resident Chris Moneymaker, and we were fascinated with the level of interest in the game in Nashville and beyond. The state of Tennessee has seemed to warm up significantly to various forms of gaming over the last couple of years, and it is well known that many Nashville residents regularly make the trip to Tunica to play poker and other games.

Ever since Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker in 2003, online poker has been growing in popularity at an astonishing rate. For those who do not know, Moneymaker learned to play poker by playing online, and he went on to take home $2. 5 million for winning the main event of the World Series. Since then, poker has become a pastime entrenched in literally millions of Americans' lives, and nowadays, the majority of the world's poker is being played over the Internet.

May 19, 2006
Posted By Susan Torres
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