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With one site online with its 30-day trial and a host of others waiting in the wings, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval commented to Nevada media that he has already held preliminary talks with other states for compacts to expand the player pool. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Howard Stu [...]
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Nevada Governor Sandoval Reports Internet Poker Deals “Possible”
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Bill Regarding Closure of Oregon Poker Rooms Under Debate
A bill that would shut down social poker rooms in Oregon had its preliminary debates earlier this week, with both sides of the situation showing up in force to discuss that legislation. The Oregonian’s Harry Esteve, who originally wrote about the proposed legislation in April, states that the spon [...]
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As States Open Online Gaming And Poker, Lawyers Meet To Discuss Potential Cases
The opening of the first regulated online gaming site in the United States has drawn a great deal of attention across the country. When Ultimate Poker let the virtual cards fly on Tuesday under the auspices of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and its intrastate regulations, it was seen as a landmark [...]
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New York Representative Looks To Push Federal Poker Regulation Forward
While different states have either moved forward with regulation of the online gaming and poker industries (or have tried and failed), the federal government has largely been quiet on the issue since the end of 2012. That may change with proposed legislation from one of New York’s most well-known [...]
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Potential Oregon Legislation Would Shut Down Live Poker Rooms
While much of the attention of the poker community is currently on the drive of several states towards legalization and regulation of online poker, there are fights that are being waged in some states that might affect live poker games. A recent bill in the Oregon legislature is an example of this t [...]
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Online Gambling Bill Introduced in Pennsylvania
On Monday, Pennsylvania State Representative Tina Davis (D – Levittown) introduced House Bill 1235 which would amend Title 4 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to legalize and regulate internet gaming. HB 1235 has several co-sponsors already, including Representatives Thomas Caltagirone, Ro [...]
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New Massachusetts Budget Plans For Online Poker
Like many state governments across the United States, the state of Massachusetts is currently preparing its budget for the upcoming year. As a part of those budget negotiations, the state is looking to potentially open its borders to online poker, but those proposals would prohibit some companies fr [...]
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While Online Gaming and Poker’s Gold Rush Is On, Some Opt To Sit On The Sidelines
Amid the flurry of activity over the past year or so with online gaming and poker, there have been some success stories. The moves by Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey to enact online regulations for the industry (in Delaware and New Jersey’s cases for full online gaming and Nevada’s online poker [...]
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Illinois Governor Holds Gaming Bill Hostage Over Disagreement On Pension Reform
After being passed by the Illinois House of Representatives and the Senate and being sent to his office, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is refusing to act on the bill due to a dispute with the General Assembly over pension reform in the state. Last week, the Illinois General Assembly passed a sweeping [...]
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Grassroots Organization Files Two Pro-Poker Initiatives in Washington State
In 2006, Washington State ruffled feathers in the poker world by criminalizing online poker, making those who play the game on the internet Class C felons, the same as third degree child rapists. Someone playing a little game of Hold’em could face up to five years in prison. It is a terrible law, [...]
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Treasure Island, 888 Receive Nevada Online Poker Licenses
The Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC) granted interactive gaming licenses to 888 U.S. Limited and Treasure Island LLC last week, bringing the launch of the first legal intrastate online poker site in the United States just a bit closer to a reality. These two licenses were not unexpected. The companies [...]
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Proposed Florida Gambling Bill Could Prohibit Online Poker
Across the United States, there are several state legislatures that are examining the issue of online gaming and poker. In Florida, however, a proposed bill may have the undue effect of shutting online poker down rather than opening it up to citizens of the Sunshine State. Last week, the Florida Sta [...]
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Nevada Solicits Suggestions for Interstate Poker Compacts
A month ago, the Nevada legislature unanimously passed Assembly Bill 114, which amended the state’s online gaming laws to allow the Governor to enter into interstate poker compacts. Governor Brian Sandoval quickly signed the measure, meaning once poker sites get up and running in the Silver State, [...]
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Proposed Joint Resolution in Texas Would Have State Opt-In to Federal Legislation
With all the news lately about states passing, working on, or killing online poker legislation, one bit of news out of Texas has been largely ignored. Back on March 5th, State Senator Leticia Van de Putte filed Senate Joint Resolution 43, an amendment to the state constitution which would allow for [...]
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PokerStars Responds to AGA Protest
Less than a week after the American Gaming Association (AGA) filed a brief with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and Division of Gaming Enforcement opposing the Rational Group’s application for an Interim Casino Authorization (ICA) in the state, the parent company of PokerStars has struck [...]
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Top Illinois Newspaper Changes Stance On Proposed Gaming Legislation
The effects of a newly passed bill in an Illinois Senate committee are already being felt as a key Illinois newspaper has changed its position regarding the future of gaming in the state. The Editorial Staff of the State Journal-Register, the major paper for the capital city of Springfield, IL, star [...]
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Illinois Senate Committee Passes New Gaming Bill With Online Element
For the third time in as many years, an Illinois Senate committee has passed an expansion of casino gaming in the state, but this time it has a caveat: online gaming and poker is a part of the bill. The new legislation, SB1739, is virtually the same bill that has been introduced in the Illinois [... [...]
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Social Poker Bill Introduced in Texas
You would think that the state that lends its name to Texas Hold’em, the most popular poker variation going, would be extremely poker-friendly. Alas, it is not. Good luck finding a game. The only casino in the state is the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino, located on the Rio Grande about a two and a ha [...]
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AGA Files Brief Opposing PokerStars’ B&M Licensing Efforts in New Jersey
On Monday, the American Gaming Association (AGA), a lobbying organization for the commercial casino industry in the United States, filed a brief with both the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and Division of Gaming Enforcement, urging them to deny Rational Group’s application for an Interim Ca [...]
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Iowa Reignites Debate Regarding Online Poker Legislation
After not considering the legislation in their previous congressional cycle, the Iowa General Assembly could once again take a look at passing legislation that would make the Hawkeye State another player in the online poker industry. According to reports from O. Kay Henderson of RadioIowa, an Iowa S [...]
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New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling
New Jersey became the third state in the U.S. to legalize online gambling Tuesday, seeing a revised bill fly through votes in both houses of the legislature before being signed by Governor Chris Christie. While the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement technically has the power to decide whether [...]
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State Senator Introduces Another Online Poker Bill in California
As honest-to-goodness, legal online gaming in Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey continues to inch closer to a reality, some legislators are continuing to try to get internet poker legalized in California. The latest is State Senator Lou Correa, who introduced Senate Bill 678 on Friday. SB 678, formal [...]
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Nevada Legislature Amends Current Law, Will Seek Other States As Partners For Online Poker
Potentially seeing that citizens of their own state weren’t going to be enough to persuade investment in the industry (and other potential issues), the Nevada Legislature and Governor Brian Sandoval rushed a measure through the Nevada General Assembly today that will allow licensees of the state [...]
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Nevada Legislators Consider Changes to Online Poker Law
As internet poker licensees scramble to try to become the first to open for business and offer intrastate online poker in the state of Nevada, there still may be changes to the law that could affect how wide of a net the operators can cast. We already told you about Assembly Bill 5, which aims [...] [...]
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Mississippi Online Gambling Bill Dies in Committee (Again)
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This is a motto that Mississippi State Representative Bobby Moak (D – Bogue Chitto) will need to adopt if he wants to see intrastate online gambling legalized in his state. For the second time in a year, Rep. Moak had an internet gambling bill which [...]
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