Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110418:18:53:00
The businesses are offshore, the financial mechanisms, the bank that got the money from the players to the poker operators, that's what the federal government cracked down on. there were sort of a gray area now where the government tolerated the existence of these offshore poker operation, but clearly, that period is over. we know it is illegal and now the country has to decide whether to legalize it and tax it or continue these criminal investigations. >> abarrett, poker players say t is not gambling, it is a game of skills, and it is not gambling. what is your response to that? >> well, cert...