April 28, 2015
Monday could prove to be a memorable date in online poker following the historic first passage through a legislative committee of an online poker legalisation bill in California. Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB431 represents progress at last after years of failures while politicians struggled to find common ground among the numerous competing interests that either want […]
April 24, 2015
A comment at an i-gaming conference by a California politician has triggered a new initiative designed to make political representatives in the state aware that online poker legalisation is still very much a live issue on which positive action is awaited. The politician was Representative Mike Gatto, author of one of the four bills currently […]
April 17, 2015
Further information is now available on the planned joint informational hearings on the legalisation of online poker by California’s Senate and Assembly Government Organization committees (see previous reports). The first hearing is titled “Overview of Gambling in California; Legality, Authorization and Regulation” and will take place on May 20 at 1:30pm PST. The second hearing […]
April 16, 2015
It looks like another very active California legislative season for online poker legalisation as politicians warm up for yet another year of trying to reach consensus and pass a workable online poker legalisation measure. Our readers will recall that there are currently four bills on the table. Two of these, introduced by Senator Isadore Hall […]
April 8, 2015
Pennsylvania looks increasingly like the online poker legalisation hot spot at present, with this week seeing another bill introduced to the state House. The proposal, titled HB 920, comes from Representative Tina Davis, whom our readers will recall tried unsuccessfully in 2013 to achieve legalisation with an almost identical proposal that stalled in committee. Her […]
March 4, 2015
Keeping the political pot boiling in Pennsylvania this week, Representative Nick Miccarelli has re-introduced his online poker legalisation bill, which failed to make it in 2014. Now titled HB695, the bill reportedly has the same content as the original, although that has yet to be confirmed by full publication. If that is the case, then […]
February 20, 2015
The Californian online poker legalisation scene just became more interesting following the introduction in the state House and Senate of a new bill authored by two powerful state politicians. State Sen. Isadore Hall and Assemblyman Adam Gray are respectively the chairs of the Senate and the House Governmental Organization committees, putting considerable clout behind the […]
February 15, 2015
Reports earlier this week that Caesars Entertainment Californian associate the Rincon and other tribal bands in the state have suggested a workable compromise on the controversial “bad actor” clause in attempts to legalise online poker in California (see previous reports) have been followed by claims that the land gambling giant could be on board with […]
February 13, 2015
Bad actor clauses – usually focused on companies that continued to serve US players post-UIGEA – have divided and disrupted constructive debate on the legalisation of online poker in California for years, with some tribal groups strongly supporting the concept, and others equally vehemently opposing it. This week during the 20th Western Indian Gaming Conference […]