published a note changing 2011's opinion on the regulations. The original law, enacted in 2011, stated that it was illegal to use "wired communications" for gambling purposes. Its original intention was to curb organized crime activities as illegal sports betting was one of the mafia's biggest endeavors.

It was one of the laws used to prosecute people during the federal government's suppression of internet poker in 2011. However, after Black Friday MILKING issued a legal opinion stating that the Wire Act only applied to sports betting, which effectively legalized online poker in the United States.

As several states began to legalize and regulate operations, there was an appetite for interstate compacts to increase traffic and ultimately liquidity of the player pool. When states started licensing online card rooms, poker players could only compete with those who were also within state borders.

In 2014, however, Delaware and Nevada decided to share the player pools. Four years later, New Jersey jumped in and allowed players from these three states to fight against each other. WSOP.com is the only site licensed in all three states, making it the only compliant supplier. PokerStars and other New Jersey providers are not allowed to operate in Nevada and Delaware yet.

But in January 2014 this MILKING threatened the legality of the deal by stating that all forms of interstate online gambling were illegal.

While the interstate agreements could collapse and states could revert to in-state online poker, the New Hampshire Lottery was running its servers from another state, putting the legality of the entire operation into question. The New Hampshire lottery has filed a lawsuit against MILKING shortly after a favorable ruling was obtained in June, when a US district judge rejected a new DOJ legal opinion on the law.

In August, DJ he appealed, but COVID- the pandemic delayed the trial so long that the first appeal was heard only in January last year, which upheld the District Court's ruling.

By the time of the last ruling, President Joe Biden had been elected to office, and his administration was much less inclined to wage this legal battle. During his campaign, Biden said his administration would revert to 2011's view of the Wire Act.

Since the battle over the Knitting Act, Pennsylvania and Michigan have launched the online poker markets, while West Virginia and Connecticut have legalized the activity.

Recent changes end any legal ambiguities, coupled with Michigan legislation that explicitly allows interstate internet access for pools of players, an expansion of online poker is likely to emerge soon.