Poker players who descended on Capitol Hill last week face long odds in trying to convince Congress to legalize playing the card game on the Internet.
But one wild card could force Washington's hand: an international trade dispute with Antigua over online gambling that could end up leaving the U.S. on the hook for billions of dollars.
The WTO recently ruled that the U.S. violated its international treaty commitments by going after offshore online gambling outfits without cracking down on American operators offering remote betting on horse and dog racing.
After the ruling, Washington said it would remove Internet gambling from its WTO treaty obligations. That raised the ire of such allies as Europe and Japan, which filed separate compensation claims against the USA.
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