UK backs online gambling

[pokerczarina]

So why is the UK so keen to keep the online gmbling agains US policy?

[The Professor]

Because the UK Government respects peoples ability to make their own decisions and choices?

Or maybe the UK Government hasn't been paid off by Harrahs to pass an online gambling ban through the back door?

Seriously though - I think the UK simply recognises Poker as a sport / game that alot of people enjoy and play, and not as some sort of degenerate activity where everybody is going to lose their life savings.

Plus what the US have done is just underhand and wrong, so why would any other countries support it?

To think of all the support the UK have given the US over political issues over the past 10 years or so, and how they stood and backed the US up, only for the US to do something like this and wipe $billions off the London Stock exchange.

[PokerPrincess]

The other part of that story is the fact that England had already legalized on-line gambling in their country and now to take that back would simply make it appear that they are being ruled by the U.S. Now wouldn't that be a fine kettle of fish after the war and the Boston Tea Party to show that the U.S. was a separate entity from the England.

Now to be ruled by the U.S. where would there be honour in that. So legalized it is and legalized it stays. Also, in most of the European countries online gambling is considered legal. The U.S. government may think they rule the world but in reality they don't in every aspect of day to day living.