My father was heavily affected by this. He went from making thousands of dollars a month from online poker to making about fifty bucks a month on average in the online poker memberships (playing almost as much as he used to, but not quite). He follows the sloooow news of getting it legalized again on a state basis, which for the past several years a few states have been on the verge of doing (a couple might have already as far as I know).<p>He went from a staunch Republican to anti-Congress pretty much overnight with the passage of this bill, and I&#x27;ve probably heard him complain about fifteen times about how Congress is so corrupt and a lobbyist representing Harrah&#x27;s casino apparently &quot;bought&quot; a senator to get him to slip this into the SAFE Port Act (which in the aftermath of 911 was guaranteed to pass) for only $50,000.