The only thing that will make it "better" then what it was is that it will now be "regulated" for whatever that is gonna mean. We will never see another pokerstars and never see another situation like FTP (thank god i think we can all agree on that).

These states are in too much debt for us not to allow online poker and just rake/tax the living daylights out of it. The big casinos in Vegas are not going to allow third parties to come in and control the market (like a zynga facebook ect.)

My prediction is that Nevada will be the first state for it to pass. You will have to be a Nevada resident to play. There will be either one big general site.. for instance like a harrahspoker or each casino will branch out and have there own site (dont think it will be this since most ceo of vegas hotels are totally for this but said will jump onto a big market) all about the $$$$ people. Nevada will introduce this site late this year early next year and the rake structure is just going to be over the top. You will see no rakeback options and probably very slim bonus payout options due to tax laws.

All of this will be 21+ and have a strong deposit verification (i could imagine). But I see this starting slow in Nevada and once other states see how much money there pulling in you will see it span across other sites and we will once again all be playing on the same servers own and operated by usa vegas casinos.