Online Poker Not a "Gambling Device"

Here I was going on and on about the court case in Pennsylvania that may have qualified Texas Hold’em Poker as a game of skill, when it was finally ruled in Kentucky that online poker rooms are not gambling devices.
And that means that there won’t be any seizing of internet poker rooms. In the words of Nelson Muntz, “haha!” And might I also add: Microgaming, you’re idiots. You pulled out way too soon, now they have given no clout to that case, and you’re out thousands of customers.
Tsk tsk and for shame abandoning all of your U.S. players. And not just the players, but the affiliates too.
And as for Kentucky! You should have known better! You can’t seize anything on the internet! You certainly cannot expect to go up against iMEGA, the Poker Players Alliance, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, GoDaddy AND 141 domain owners! Especially when the governor that filed this lawsuit is lobbying for more gambling in the state. Are you NUTS? Kentucky is home to one of the biggest gambling events EVER in the WORLD! If that doesn’t make you look like you’re playing favorites, I don’t know what WILL!
Well, at any rate, this is a HUGE precedent for the online poker industry. Because in this case, internet gambling sites were found not to be “gambling devices,” if the UIGEA is reviewed this year we can pretty much expect that it will be thrown out. Or at least I am hoping.
I think to celebrate, we should all have a class of wine and hit up whatever website is Microgaming’s closest competitor that caters to the U.S. and bet like a bunch of Big Business types. No, scratch that. We should all go to and offshore gambling site and bet on the horses to ensure that no gambling proceeds go to Kentucky. HA!