Friday the 13th was definitely an unlucky day for online poker players as President Bush signed into law a bill Friday to help prevent terrorists from sneaking a nuclear, chemical or germ weapon into the United States inside one of the 11 million shipping containers that enter the U.S. each year - many without inspection. The bill also includes an unrelated provision that seeks to strengthen laws that forbid most online gambling.

As noted here before this will affect many of the online poker sites who have already announced that they would close their games to US players once Bush signed the bill into law.