The senator from Nevada, says the law has a loophole you can drive a truck through. She is also fighting hard to remove poker from the definition of gambling. As it is a game of skill.
All these site are banning Americans because their stockholders are freaked out. This seems counter productive since USA players make up the majority of online players. So their profits will fall and their stocks will fall with them. And when they try to beg the Americans to come back, when this fiasco is cleared up, they may find few will come back.