As Michigan, Pennsylvania, California and The big apple all consider regulating online card games for real money, there is, fortunately, little chance currently of an internet poker ban coming from the federal government.

According to GamblingCompliance, on the recent Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the GOP platform didn’t demand a ban on online casinos. It had within the last two elections. This year, there wasn’t a single connection with gambling from the GOP platform.

That’s the great news, but because the Poker Players Alliance pointed out, Donald Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has a history of being anti-online poker. Should Trump win the White House, Pence’s stance at the issue might be problematic.

“[Pence] went so far as to author a letter to the Indiana Congressional delegation asking them to support the [Sheldon] Adelson bill that will shut down state-licensed poker websites and prohibit new ones,” the PPA wrote in an announcement last week. “As if that was not enough, he made certain to send a duplicate to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), sponsor of the home version of the prohibition legislation, to supply backing for one in every of Chaffetz’s Congressional hearings at the subject.”

The letter, dated May 1, 2014, also mentioned that Pence supported the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, which had a hugely negative impact at the poker boom on the time.

According to FiveThirtyEight.com, the RNC has boosted Trump’s odds of winning the Electoral College, but it’s still very hard to inform by how much. The polls indicate it may be a dead heat.

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