Las Vegas Sun interviews Jay Lakin from PokerSourceOnline
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Jeff Haney has an interview / article featuring Jay Lakin from super-affiliate site PSO in today’s Las Vegas Sun.
In the article, Lankin offers his take on the impact of legislation, the health of the industry as a whole, and the potential for regulation and legalization in the US. Some excerpts follow.
Lankin on who US laws really hurt:
“There are people in wheelchairs, people who are shut-ins, people who don’t live anywhere near a casino,” said Lakin, vice president and co-founder of Poker Source Online. “Their enjoyment in life is sitting at a laptop, sitting at their computer and playing poker with other people from throughout the world.
“They don’t have the resources to set up a foreign bank account or anything like that. The pros are still funding their accounts and taking money out. It’s the guy in a wheelchair in South Dakota who’s getting hurt.”
Lankin’s thoughts on the possibility for overturning the UIGEA:
His best hope, though, comes from a lobbying group called the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA), which filed a lawsuit against the gambling act tentatively scheduled to be heard in U.S. District Court in New Jersey this month. The Justice Department is fighting for dismissal of the case.
“IMEGA’s contention is that the (gambling act) is unconstitutional and should be dismissed,” Lakin said. “If the ruling is in favor of iMEGA, the (gambling act) could go away instantly.”
