Just a few days ago we heard that the US Republican party, commonly known as GOP (Grand Old Party), had unexpectedly withdrawn online gambling prohibition from their platform.
The provision that prohibited internet gambling of all forms, including online bingo, poker and casino games, was removed from the Republican platform by a draft committee. This caused a huge speculative buzz around the world that the days of the UIGEA prohibition might be coming to an end.
However the Republicans backtracked on their earlier policy revision, and just a few hours later the exact same provision was reinserted into the platform and the draft committee adjustment was nulled.
The Poker Players Alliance had been lobbying the Republican party to remove the online gambling prohibition from the GOP platform, with many comments posted on the GOP website urging for the removal of restrictive laws against online poker.
In the wake of the UIGEA, many Americans still continue to play games online, a fact supported by the many US facing online casinos, online bingo sites and poker sites with the ‘US friendly’ tag.
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