Legal trends article in Wall Street Journal.

Proponents of legalized online gambling say the business of legal online state lotteries could provide new sources of revenue for state coffers. But others, including large casino interests that prefer a national system limited to online poker, say that the free-flowing nature of the Internet is ill-suited for state gambling plans, which would attempt to limit online gambling to within a given state's borders.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204296804577120593073657170.html

I find this quite interesting as one of the more expensive operations to run (a poker table) is being pushed.
1.) Abosolutely non-competetive/monopolistic, since 21, PGP, 3CP, Slots, Bacc, etc are off the table.
2.) Low-stakes gaming is the new frontier $1 or $2 table min.s can be handled well On-line.
3.) I would submit that the Houses of Gaming demonstrate by providing electronic versions of table games that seat more than one Customer, as in B&M establishments. Poker can do this, and has been that way since 1997. Multi-Customer table-gaming is the 2nd frontier.
4.) Who ever incorporates low-stakes with Multi-Customer at table-gaming on-line WINS big. Think of it as Social gaming.