Last year almost 8 million Americans placed bets at the online
casinos. And although the legislation is very unclear on how
illegal online gambling is, the revenues of the online gaming
ventures such as PartyGaming have the big shots at the offline
gambling in the US scratching their heads and thinking of a way
to cut a piece of the pay for themselves, too. Everybody in the
industry knows that if the brick-and-mortar casinos attach their
name to an online casino - the profits would be huge. And more
and more online gaming lobbyists show up in the capital.
However, it will be a battle, as the opposes of online gambling
are not giving up easy. Although the World Trade Organization
ruled that the United States could not outlaw the offshore
versions of the online gambling, how US will react is yet
unknown. They have till April 3rd to comply with the WTO ruling,
and we can only keep our fingers crossed and hope that the
Internet will stay the same and there would be no "Internet
Government".