Future of Online Gambling in Question

Rich Shealer, 44, likes to go online in his spare time and play a few rounds of poker.

"Two years ago, I probably spent 15 hours a week playing poker online," Shealer said. Local opportunities to play have popped up in the last year or two, shortening the hours he spends online. But he still frequents sites like Party Poker and Noble Poker where he's spent less than $200 betting online in the past three years.

Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, R-Va., proposed the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act in February. It made its way through the House Judiciary Committee late last month. The bill aims to "crack down on the growing problem of illegal gambling by updating laws to cover all forms of interstate gambling and account for new technologies," meaning the Internet.

June 14, 2006
Posted By Guy Akers
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