Barney Frank, a Congressman from Massachusetts, has introduced a bill this month to make online bingo playing legal in the US. This bill has an excellent chance of passage, as people who play bingo are also very likely to be likely voters.

This bill if it becomes law could make bingo grow by an astronomical amount after its passage. This law would become the law of the land and protect players from narrow legal restrictions that some states have on the books. This will be a boon to the bingo sites around the world, as the US market would become a fertile area to find new players for the 100s of bingo sites on the Internet. It also may clean up some of the abuses that some bingo sites are guilty of when it comes to releasing players’ money from their sites.

This may also lead the way to removing other gaming restrictions that US bingo players have to navigate. The biggest restriction is removing the use of credit cards to fund gaming activities. This law has caused many US players to give up trying to play at any online casino. The move is afoot in many states to allow players to play poker and other skill games online. The original law was passed to protect the Indian Casinos and the Horse Racing Industry from the competition that online gaming presented. It had little to do with protecting people from becoming addicted to gaming, although that is the way it was sold to the Congress before passage.

This may take more time than players would hope to see to pass, but the wheel is turning in the favor of US players in the new Democratically controlled Congress. Poker is also going to get a hearing in the Congress too.

Player around the world should root for this bill to pass as more players, usually means bigger prizes at the gaming site.