^Uh-uh, I best not. I think someone like Grange would be a lot better qualified to address this question of legality than me. My opinion is that I'm very skeptical of some of the claims for the legality of playing online I hear from some online poker advocates, especially when they've had a history of being full of it on some related but not so lawyerly topics that I do know a bit more about... but that's just a non-attorney layperson's opinion based on personal judgments of some individuals' credibility.

Several months ago when I was looking into something else, I did see that the American Gaming Association (the trade group for the casino business) was listing 26 states where commercial (non-tribal) gambling was legal in brick and mortar establishments with a State issued gaming license. I'll leave it to others to draw whatever inference they think is appropriate from that.

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Which is why I also like to use NY as an example ....... As its the state I'm actually licensed to practice law in ..... and I am very surprised (pleasantly --- as I have been beating this horse for a while) to hear that it was being counted as the one of the states where online poker is not legal ..... as most people point to the penal law's exclusion of someone who is just a player and conclude that playing is legal.

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Hmmm, I just looked at the AGA's annual report for end of calendar year 2011 again, and that number of "26 states" I recalled above was a bit overstated. They list 15 states permitting commercial (non-tribal) gaming, an additional five that allow only card rooms, and another one that allows only "electronic gaming devices" in the form of state sponsored video lottery terminals, for a total of 21 states where they say there is (or was as of December 31st) some form of legal commercial gambling outside of Native American Indian land or parimutual wagering on racing events conducted at licensed tracks.

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Very first Google search result for "pokerspot" provides a clue.