Barack Obama and John McCain Both Like a Gamble
Date Posted : July 28, 2008

Ever since the introduction of the UIGEA gamblers in the United States have been limited in the amount of places they can play. There might be a little light at the end of the tunnel with the revelation that both Barack Obama and John McCain both enjoy a bet - although they like very different games.

McCain's game of choice is craps - the popular dice game where your luck is all in the roll of the dice. Back in 2005, an article on McCain in The New Yorker quoted a supporter, Wes Gullett as claiming that they used to play craps in Las Vegas in 14 hour stints, often on fifteen dollar minimum tables, whilst Time outlines a gambling career over the past decade that has seen McCain play "on Mississippi riverboats, Indian land, in Caribbean craps pits and along the length of the Las Vegas Strip."

Barack Obama's game of choice is poker - Texas Hold'em to be exact. Quite a different form of gambling, Texas Hold'em is more of a game of strategy and skill than craps. This difference lead to Time Magazine comparing the two types candidates based on their gambling game of choice.

Whether or not the fact that both presidential candidates like to gamble will have any effect on repealing the UIGEA is yet to be seen. The good news is that at least they will understand the implications that anti online gambling legislation will have on millions of Americans.