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Barney Frank – the chairman of the US Financial Services Committee – has introduced a bill that would legalize and regulate online gambling in the country. The bill is called the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act of 2009 (IGRCPEA). Though this new law can be considered similar to Frank’s previous bill called Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007, it is a more through carefully worked out law, where the main emphasis is laid on customer protection. This emphasis can convince oppositionist of online gambling legalization of the necessity of adopting the bill. The viewpoint of the previous law opponents was based on the children and problem gamblers concern. But the additions to the newly created bill carefully stipulate those controversial aspects.

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The American government that is a known defender of online gambling prohibition has legally acknowledged skill games to be NOT gambling.

Skill games are often mistakenly associated with gambling. It is obvious that chance is a faithful companion of any game. Even sports games are not an exception. But it never comes to think of football, for example, as of a gambling game. Things are completely the same with games of skill. (more…)

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