Another painful part was that companies sought to obtain legal clarification on how it impacted their operations. The industry essentially split in 2006 into firms willing to take the risk that poker was legal, and those who didn&#x27;t want to take that risk.<p>I believe people in government took advantage of this ambiguity to allow business to continue so they could later confiscate funds from payment processors to boost their careers and budgets. I permanently lost money in at least two instances where payment processors were shut down.<p>I also think there should not only be a clear communication of how much is raked, but there should be a mandatory minimum % that is returned back into the pool (or a cap on the rake) so that it can be demonstrated as in fact a game of skill.<p>Tell our friend from Australia I said HI.