When UIEGA passed it was of course shit for poker. For starters all politicians look at internet gambling as a whole minus lottery and the ponies who had lobbyists in their back pocket. It's hard for anyone clueless about the industry to understand how poker is a game of skill and shouldn't be grouped with internet slots and virtual casino table games as people will continue to bunch it all together.

Getting rid of something like UIEGA that passed is hard to do especially when it's not considered a top priority to the United States and by removing it they sort of are saying we were retarded to let that get passed in the first place.

With it being an election year most people including myself thought the odds of getting any regulation on a federal level was not going to happen this year but their have been a few movements that could be beneficial later on. What are these? Well we had that case in New York ruling poker as a game of skill which can help people in favor of poker to show to ruling and another big thing was the ruling that Online Poker isn't in violation of the wire act.

We also have had several court rules on individuals such as those involved in the payment processing and Stars/FTP settling with DOJ that has to be done before they entertain legalization on the federal level.

Their were a lot of people that though "Yes! We got Obama in office and he likes poker so he will get UIEGA removed" yet the status of legalization only got worse for a few years then leading to Black Friday.

The state regulated poker could play a big key in legalization federally as they will definitely look into how well that gets ran so lets hope the casinos given a license don't fuck it up.

With everything else going on in the country and rest of the world that affects tens of millions of people you can bet legalization of internet poker is a very minor thing to the US Government.

I don't think Obama has a stance for that matter but he certainly isn't strongly for online poker otherwise UIEGA could of got pushed for removal. I don't think Romney cares either way it's going to take other people to get Poker legalized but their is a lot of money in the casino gambling industry to lobby for poker.