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This scandal is really bugging me and i spent a lot of time mulling about it this evening. Just this evening i read an AP article about internet gambling in which Ayre from Bodog was quoted saying that there would be a lot of consolidations because smaller pokerrooms have a tough time surviving (not really a surprise for anyone to hear this) There's also a trend of going public. It might be tough to legally go after a pokerroom headquartered in Timbukto but quite easy once they are listed on a stock-exchange somewhere.
I suspect that the fall-out of this scandal will be much more stringent requirements for new players, such as mandatory ID documentation, and painful and slow withdrawals. And yes, it will play right in the hands of American legislators so keen on making online gambling illegal in the US. Not just out of fear of the money laundering but also the "laxity" of the online pokerrooms and the corrosive influence on minors who, as this scandal shows, pokerrooms have not been able to keep out, blablabla.
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