`(viii) participation in any game or contest in which participants do not stake or risk anything of value other than--

`(I) personal efforts of the participants in playing the game or contest or obtaining access to the Internet; or

`(II) points or credits that the sponsor of the game or contest provides to participants free of charge and that can be used or redeemed only for participation in games or contests offered by the sponsor; or

This is pretty curious. It presents some challenges for online games like WoW (sort of), EQ2 (station exchange has some issues here) and Second Life is really hurting on this, but their exposure may be limited because they expressly say the content is owned by the in game creator of it.

I detect some extreme messiness coming out of this one, above and beyond the actual poker places...

(Because of the way the Library of Congress handles links, the link here goes to the level above the text of the bill. I can safely say, I despise ho they handle things, it is made to make information as hard as possible to share.)

Gambling Provision of the SAFE Port Act