The world is going to the dogs and we still have places in the world where it’s illegal to play online poker. One of these places is Pennsylvania and lawmakers hope to start changing that this week.

People are dead, shot down by strangers not caring for the sound of music. A nation is in mourning. We paint our Facebook profiles in tricolour. And in Pennsylvania it is illegal to play online poker.

Sheldon Adelson wants to keep it that way. John Payne believes otherwise. I’m glad I live in England. It’s grey, dead umbrella’s lay scattered on our streets due to the effects of some hurricane that have devastated a country not as fortunate as ours, meaning I am soaking wet, but I can switch on my laptop and gamble on tonight’s England v France game. It’s a fleeting feeling of freedom in the world full of bars.

The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling (CSIG) believes online gambling operators are predatory. They target children and the aged. They use Disney style marketing to hypnotise 6-7-year-olds into stealing their parents credit cards and blowing the mortgage in a heads-up match against Phil Galfond.