The Cash Trio

I can’t help but tie in a bit of political bias in this article, but let me get one thing clear, I’m not advocating supporting Obama outright. I would instead insist that as a voter one look at the issues at hand and decide what’s important to you.

But, if you’re a poker player and poker legalization is one of the top issues on your list, you might want to listen to this most recent report on Senator Barack Obama’s stance on the topic.

Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-LV) wrote an act called the Internet Gambling Study Act. The senator was quoted as saying he also supports an act similar to Berkley’s that would take an unbiased look at the economics, skill, and other miscellany that are part of the online wagering world.

During the primary season, the senator is on record as saying that he supports the gambling economic model as long as it’s under proper regulation; this is an extreme stance in stark opposition of the current wording of the UIGEA of 2006 that basically destroyed the online gambling industry in the US.

But there’s more. Obama’s running mate Joe Biden’s congressional record shows that the senator voted against a bill passed through the Senate in 1998 which would make wagering online a “criminal offense.”

But to those who know a little about the candidate it should come as no surprise. The Illinois senator was a regular at the weekly low stakes game held at Illinois Manufacturers Association. And some reports paint his a “very calculated player who rarely bluffed.”

And if the old adage is true, that you can tell a lot about a person by the way the play poker, then I think it’s safe to say that such an endorsement to educate himself on the issue of internet gambling should be taken as just that.