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Legislation introduced this week would allow Internet wagering at Atlantic City casinos.
The bill sponsored by state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, D-Union, specifically would allow “New Jersey residents to place wagers on casino games via the Internet,” according to the text of the legislation.
All games, including poker, would be offered through Internet wagering, the bill states.
In addition, [...]

Collaboration by two of the world’s most respected news organizations reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints.
The results of the four-month investigation by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, producer [...]

We recently stumbled upon an older Christian Science article
Some SL businesses already may be operating outside current law. Casino gambling and sports betting are pervasive in SL. The fact that bets are made in lindens, not dollars, won’t shield gamblers from possible prosecution under federal laws banning Internet gambling, says Jaclyn Lesch, a spokeswoman for [...]

Mediall Reports, has a puff piece on internet gambling, following a story of one gambler who almost gambled away his life, trying to paint the entire internet gambling world into negative light.
“My wife would catch me playing Internet blackjack at 4 a.m.”
by Manuel Baigorri
Jul 29, 2008
WASHINGTON – Ever since he was very young, Sean G. [...]

US. Senator Jon Kyl, (R-Ariz), says he is growing impatient with the slow progress in coming up with regulations on Internet gambling in the United States.
Kyl, who has been pushing for a ban on Internet gambling, says slow progress on the part of the government and the Federal Reserve is part of the problem, along [...]