September 26, 2017
For the tenth year running it appears that the legalisation of online poker in California remains a dream unlikely to be realised. The state Legislature ended its 2017 season on September 15 with no progress or apparent interest on Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s bill AB 1677, introduced in February this year and still languishing in the […]
April 25, 2017
Several US industry observers have commented on the apparent lack of activity so far this year regarding online poker legalisation initiatives, and Online Poker Report offered a possible reason following an interview with Rep. Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a long-time driver of legalisation proposals in the state over the past decade. Jones-Sawyer said that he would not […]
February 21, 2017
In what has become almost an annual event for the past decade, a proposal for the intrastate legalisation on online poker in California has again surfaced in the state Assembly. The indefatigable Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, undeterred by his past failures to achieve success, is again the man behind the new bill AB 1677, the Internet […]
September 7, 2016
The long drawn out saga of attempts to move Canada’s sports betting legislation into the 21st century with single game sports betting (see previous reports) will have another run on September 21 when bill C-221 is scheduled for a committee review in the House of Commons. Lawmakers on the Committee on Justice and Human Rights […]
September 1, 2016
For the ninth year running the legalisation of online poker has been denied to Californian poker fans. On Wednesday night members of the Legislature worked late in trying to pass last-minute measures before the midnight shutdown for this session, but Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill was not among those presented. Despite a patient effort to […]
August 24, 2016
Amidst continued discord regarding online poker legalisation in California, the usually reliable internet publication Online Poker Report (OPR) carried a story Wednesday reporting that the Pechanga Band of Luiseño and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians have been holding talks with 888 Poker. our readers will recall that the Pechanga and the Agua Caliente […]
August 24, 2016
The apparent withdrawal of California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s online poker legalisation proposal AB 2863 from the Assembly agenda Monday has left the bill in apparent limbo, with no mention so far of its status in Assembly notes and records. Plagued by disagreement over a controversial late amendment inserting a 5-year or more block on operators […]
August 21, 2016
With an end-August Californian Assembly adjournment ever closer, the news broke over the weekend that Assemblyman Adam Gray may be about to pull his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 from Monday’s much anticipated floor debate following intensified opposition to its latest amendments (see previous reports). Going into the weekend there was growing opposition – […]
August 20, 2016
The last-minute addition of a “bad actor” clause that would effectively exclude Pokerstars from Californian licensing for five years (see previous reports) has prompted the coalition of Pokerstars, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and California’s three largest card clubs – Commerce Casino, Hawaiian Gardens Casino and Bicycle […]
August 20, 2016
The Poker Players Alliance, which claims a poker-playing membership of over 1.2 million, 90,000 of whom reside in California, has issued a strong condemnation of the late “bad actor” amendments to California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill seeking to legalise online poker in his state (see previous reports). News that the bill may be presented […]