Is gambling illegal in your area? What if your area did not have any physical boundaries, but instead was comprised of a network of machines that spanned the entire globe? That is the scope of the current Internet based gambling industry, which reportedly is doing about $12 billion in annual business, and legislators around the world are struggling to keep up. In America the debate rages on as poker players and other gamblers try to convince the lawmakers to legalize online poker, and Congress debates the merits of legislation that would turn the illegal state of online wagering into a man hunt. With felony convictions potentially facing poker players in Washington State, some fear the writing is on the wall for online gambling.