The U.s. congressman Joe Barton will soon be a bill to allow online poker to be legalized in the United States. The proposal provides for a new watchdog to providers of online poker to check.
Republican Barton puts the final touches on the bill, that may be next week already submitted could be to a committee of the House of Representatives. The proposed law allows only online poker is legal and the companies behind poker must register in a state where gambling is already legal.
Poker sites would according to the bill should be checked by the authorities of the state and by a new yet to be established federal watchdog. The bill would online poker be legal in the United States, but offers states the possibility to play poker online still, to prohibit within their borders.
In april cited the FBI, the three major poker sites in the USA, offline, on suspicion of fraud and money laundering. PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were allowed to reopen, on condition that Us players not for financial commitment could play poker. The FBI has also seized several bank accounts of the poker sites; the investigation is still ongoing.
Online poker and in 2006 it was illegal in the United States, when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act came into force. In 2009, tried Democrat Barney Frank, the ban on online gambling to be abolished, but his proposal to the law to turn back seems to be stranded in the bureaucratic mill. The Dutch government is also planning to online gambling to legalize.