Rep. Barney Frank
Rep. Barney Frank The online casino industry has been patiently waiting for the US to make changes to their Internet gambling laws. With a year passed, however, since the Obama Administration took office, the casinos have not received the results they were hoping for.

Representative Barney Frank has proposed legislation that would overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, but the lawmakers and his colleagues have been too busy with the country's financial struggle to attack the online gambling issue.

Frank has vowed that the discussions will happen, but now that the year is coming to an end, it appears more and more likely that 2010 will be the key year for these discussions. Support is growing, however, for changes to US laws.

"It is not a matter of resistance at this point, it is more about time and importance of the issue in regard to some of the other issues the government has had to deal with this year," said Gaming Analyst Walter Boggs, "I believe that something will definitely happen in 2010."

That would be good news for online casinos who have, one by one, pulled out of the US market. The recent activity of the Department of Justice has caused more casinos to pull out in the past couple of months.

The government has seized bank accounts and help US online players in jail for their failure to testify what they know of the online casinos they were gambling at. The US citizens used their Fifth Amendment rights, but had them stripped when the government granted them immunity.

Now, the entire online casino industry in the US is in wait and see mode. The new year is just around the corner, and an industry waits while the biggest market in the world decides its future involving online gambling.

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