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The Poker Players Alliance has decided not to support a new bill seeking to clarify the details of UIGEA:
August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — The chairman of the million-member Poker Players Alliance, former New York Senator Alphonse D’Amato, says that the Alliance cannot support Texas Representative Pete Session’s Bill HR6663 because it confuses a clear judicial understanding of the status quo of online poker.
HR6663 is designed primarily to determine what is legal and illegal under the confusing UIGEA, and grant amnesty from prosecution to those companies that ceased providing Internet gambling services in the USA (other than sportsbetting) when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was signed into law in October 2006. The bill identifies one of the major ambiguities of the UIGEA — whether online poker and casino games like online blackjack are legal within the United States — saying: “Federal Internet gambling prosecutions have involved sports betting, creating a lack of authoritative court decisions on the applicability of other federal criminal statutes to Internet poker and casino-style gambling.”
