Online Gambling Gets Boost From Obama Administration

The Obama administration cleared the way for states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling; reversing decades of previous policy that included civil and criminal charges against operators of some of the most popular online poker sites.



The new interpretation, by the department's Office of Legal Counsel, said the Wire Act applies only to bets on a "sporting event or contest," not to a state's use of the Internet to sell lottery tickets to adults within its borders or abroad.

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