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Duke Stands Up for Gambling

Professional poker player Annie Duke publicly entered the fray several years ago in efforts to not only repeal the UIGEA’s block on offshore online casinos, but Duke works to also spread the message that poker is a safe and skill based game that should be properly regulated and allowed into the marketplace. All of the new action and potential voting on Barney Frank’s HR 2267 has Duke back out in the public eye as she again speaks out against the UIGEA and in favor of legislation that would repeal the controversial online casino ban and instead restore civil liberties while creating a safe, secure, and taxed gambling market. As a professional in the land and internet poker industries Duke has worked with the PPA and lent her voice to the organization’s many campaigns to raise awareness in the US about the current controversial internet gambling laws.

Frank’s bill is slated for markup and voting this week and is the third of seven bills that the House Financial Services Committee plans to debate and vote on before the end of the session. Duke’s latest message is timed to coincide with this new action in Congress and again highlight that the banning of the online casinos through the UIGEA is not a bill aimed at protecting the American public, but rather a bill concerning banking laws that really doesn’t have an effective and appropriate manner of implementation in the US market. A key argument against the UIGEA stems from the fact that it actually does not offer any protective measures for gambling against the online casino gambling sites – that is not the basis of the bill and instead it actually creates a regulatory black hole where gamblers lack any government protections from gambling sites.

There is a very real need in the US for new legislation that actually directly addresses the online casino gambling issue instead of working around the situation and never actually regulating internet gambling in any way, shape, or form.