August 7, 2015
Floridian Martin Shapiro is an online poker fan determined to see the game legalised in his home state through an action group titled iPoker Florida, which he has founded. The group’s website advises other Florida online poker fans that debate in the state legislature on gambling has opened a window of opportunity for the legalisation […]
July 23, 2015
A new study has confirmed what other surveys have found in polling Californians – there is widespread support for properly regulated online poker in the state. The National Research Institute and Survata Inc were commissioned by All In Media to conduct the latest survey, which polled a sample of 1,500 Californians of legal gambling age. […]
July 21, 2015
A legalised Russian online poker industry could have benefits for other national sports including chess, reports the Global Poker Index, quoting Russian business mogul Vasily Anisimov, who leads an association of Russian state lotteries. Anisimov says that substantial amounts of money could be generated which could in part be used to fund other Russian sports […]
July 19, 2015
It appears that assessments earlier this month that California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s online poker legalisation bill was dead may have been premature. The assumptions that the bill, titled “Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015”, had been shelved following its withdrawal from the agenda of a July 8 committee hearing have turned out to be […]
July 11, 2015
Geoff Freeman, the CEO of the American Gaming Association, a trade body for US gambling companies, was interviewed on the always interesting Ralston Live television show in Nevada last week, among other things explaining that a lack of consensus on federally legalised online poker was what changed the trade body’s position from for to against. […]
July 11, 2015
It looks as if Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s bill AB 167 seeking to legalise online gambling in California may be joining Mike Gatto’s similarly motivated AB9 measure in limbo. Industry political observers have noted that, like Gatto’s bill, AB167 has been withdrawn from the agenda of next week’s Assembly hearing on the issue. Assemblyman Jones-Sawyer has […]
July 3, 2015
Pokerstars and its California tribal and cardroom allies have upped the ante in the fight for fair and open online poker legalisation in the Bear State by launching a new Professional Player Tour initiative titled Let California Play! The initiative will be supported by the www.californians4ipoker.com website launched last month (see previous report). The drive […]
July 3, 2015
California has one less online gambling legalisation proposal this week following the suspension Thursday of Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s AB9 bill in the Assembly. That leaves Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s AB 167 and Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 431 proposals still alive, with the latter looking like the lead runner and already through two Assembly committees. Gatto announced […]
June 25, 2015
Yesterday’s California Assembly Government Organization Committee hearings on legalised intrastate online poker is perhaps best summed up as generally positive but familiar in content to that which has gone before. Both supporters and detractors made now well-known submissions, and experts provided factual information on the pros and cons of regulation and licensing and what other […]