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Although online gambling is to all intents and purposes illegal in the USA, it is estimated that approximately 16 million Americans gamble for real money prizes online, and wager more than $6 billion annually. This is at offshore casino, poker, sports betting and other websites. These websites are out of the reach of US law enforcement but not entirely - look what happened to PokerStars and Full Tilt - and are not subject to US tax.

The loss of this potential revenue is the deal that advocates use in their attempts to get online gambling games legalized and regulated. There are several bills before congress, but nothing much ever seems to happen, apart from speculation. There is massive outrage in opposition to online gambling, under the pretext of protecting the vulnerable. For example; Stop Predatory Gambling, a nonprofit group says that the legalization of online gambling would open a 24/7 casino in every home, office and dorm room in the US, and that E-gaming "represents the purest form of predatory gambling."

We believe that people should have the freedom to choose and this is what living in the USA is supposed to be all about. Legalization and regulation would protect the vulnerable too, not only the vulnerable however, every online gambler in America. There is no debate about the fact that this industry could potentially change the budgetary yield of both federal and state government coffers quite substantially.

Right now the US government is losing billions in dollars worth of tax, licensing and other revenue, for fear that they won't be able to have complete control of an industry which is basically business without borders. But what is better a slice of the potential revenue pie, or nothing at all?

Even the American Gaming Association (AGA) who were dead set against any form of online gambling, has changed their tune. The recent Full Tilt Poker fiasco has been an incredibly expensive lesson in what US regulation could have prevented from taking place. Instead the DoJ closed down the site - robbing thousands of members from what was owed to them in their accounts, and essentially uncovering a whole hornets’ nest of deceit and scandal. Whether or not this scandal will prove to be fact still remains to be seen, but it opened the AGA's eyes, because the technology now exists to have all the potential 'correct' safeguards in place.

Online gambling has become a mainstream industry and this means it is driven by 'corporate' companies. These businesses are subject to company law and are therefore not allowed to operate under the radar, like some private companies have been known to do. It is for this reason that it would be such a good idea to legislate and regulate this industry NOW in the US. Cash-strapped states would live to have access to this industry revenue, but in reality intrastate gambling probably won't work all that well. It needs to be federally governed in order to have the right fiscal impact.

Channel 4 is launching a new documentary called Poker's Million Dollar Girl. It the next episode, we will see the British model and poker pro Liv Boeree, now 26, who won £1.1m in the European Poker Tour last year. And did Liv use her looks to make her way up in the poker world? She says yes, at the beginning. After that when she became real good, it was not necessary any more. And she says it might still sometimes be difficult to sit at one table with male players since many tend to underestimate girls in poker. And she encourages every woman who found a taste for poker to let themselves not get harassed and go on. And win like Liv Boeree did!

As if the fact that online poker sites were forced offshore in 2006 by UIGEA was not bad enough, professional online poker players in the US are also now being forced offshore. Life has changed for these professionals since the 15th April 2011, or Black Friday, when many players had their only means of income taken away. The signs of imminent departure were showing early in May when a number of online poker pros were already looking at countries from where they could still comfortably play and make a living without undue hassles or harassment. Not only did online poker in the US build a whole industry around the game; it also grew an entire generation/population of online poker professionals.

These players perceive themselves to be "hardworking American individuals", the Government does not see them in the same light, but by the same token, also cannot provide enough jobs to keep people off the streets. We would call this one of the strangest paradoxes of all time. If people have a way to earn money online and pay their bills and taxes, then honestly, what is the problem? However, players such as Isaac Haxton are looking to leave the so-called 'land of opportunity' and migrate to more conducive shores. Malta, Mardrid and Melbourne are three of the locations on his short-list. He says that ultimately it does not matter where he ends up - all he needs is a good internet connection.

In a Time Magazine report – written by Matt Villano on the 10th May, 2011 - Vanessa Peng, also a 28-year-old Las Vegas resident and online poker professional, planned to leave the USA for good. She says she "thought this was a country of freedoms" and knows better now.

There are all many types of poker game, all different variations, as well as different formats. The craze for playing poker world-wide has been led by the popularity of online poker, as well as the fact that this game has become universally televised in its tournament form. The world quite literally went wild for poker, and while this trend appears to bottoming out, it is still one of the most widely loved games in the world. It stands to reason that certain crazes would also spring up around poker, and the latest in this genre is being called 'Poker Legs'.

It is being played from your favourite local pub to Las Vegas, and while 'Poker Legs' may sound like a soft porn film title, nothing could be further from the truth. Legs is great fun to play, and if you take your poker too seriously – let your hair down, play Legs, and have a little fun for a change. This game is for the man or women with the biggest balls, and these balls have nothing to do with bingo! It combines elements of strategy, is a dinkum gambling game, and its imperative that you know the basic rules in order to play.

It is a 'Hold 'em' or 'Fold 'em' style game which mixes up different variations of poker, and is best played amongst friends. It can see the tiniest stakes lead to monster prize pots in only a few short hours. Experts are predicting that Legs is going to take the world of poker by storm. Whether we will see it at online poker or gambling sites or not, still remains to be seen. But generally speaking what rules in the live gambling world, does not take long to migrate online. But be warned, we have been advised that this is a 'degenerate' gambling game!

The aim of the game is to collect Legs, these are special tokens which are won, when a hand is won uncontested. Winning an uncontested hand generally takes place, the higher the prize pot goes, where collecting 'Legs' means playing and winning 4 poker variations by hand value (no drawing new cards and no flop), and the pot must be won uncontested.

It is split into 'Frames' for the betting rounds and each Frame takes as long to play as it takes for one player to collect three Legs. Frame 1 Round 1 starts off with an ante to start the pot, and 2-card Hold 'em – remember, there is no flop so the best hand wins, and A-A is the nuts. The winner of this round collects a bet which is the same size as the pot, from each of the players still in. Round 2 is 3-card low and the action remains the same. So it goes, with Round 3 being 5-card Hold 'em, Round 4 is 2-7 lowball, and this completes 'Frame 1. Players then move onto Frame 2, and the cycle continues until the required amount of legs is collected. As soon as this happens, even if it is in Frame 1 the game is over and new game is begun.