The deadline for financial institutions to comply with the UIGEA is June 1st. The Poker Players Alliance is scrambling to carve-out an exemption for online poker before that date. And they are trying to "deal with the devil" to get this exemption done.

According to Poker News Daily, the PPA has approached longtime online gambling opponent Sen. Jon Kyl to seek the carve-out.

PPA Executive Director John Pappas told Poker News Daily that the task is anything but easy: “The PPA is going to submit a petition seeking that peer-to-peer games be excluded from the final promulgation of the UIGEA rules. We need to get Jon Kyl to agree to this revision. It wouldn’t seek to delay the law, but it would clearly exempt poker and pari-mutuel dog and horse racing.”