The legalization of online poker in the United States has always been a sensitive subject for the government and the congress. Truth be told, many politicians that have originally spoken against the legalization of online gambling came to see the error of their ways particularly when faced with the crisis that entailed coming up with the 1.5 trillion dollars to cover the debt of the United States. However, from a broad perspective, there are few reasons to keep online casinos and online poker tournaments outside the law, considering that estimates reveal that the budget of this industry revolve around the sum of 6 billion dollars per year.

It is fair to note that the recent arguments between the sustainers of poker legalization within the territory of the United States associated with the fraud charges against a few of the major operators seem to drastically affect the outcome. In essence, in case you are not familiar with the public scandal, major online gaming casinos among which we will list Full Tilt, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker were charged with millions of dollars in fraud. Furthermore, these online casinos have also been accused several other grave offenses against the United States.

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