The year 2015 turned out to be an uneventful one for online poker on the legislative front, but that wasn't necessarily a negative.
Entering the year, there was the hope that online poker would progress at the state level — particularly in California and Pennsylvania. That didn't happen.
However, there was also the very real fear that Sith lord Sheldon Adelson could undo what had already been established in New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware, stopping the advancement of legal and regulated online gaming in the United States before it really got going.
Instead, the force awakened and dealt what may have been a death blow to Adelson's Restoration of America's Wire Act (RAWA).