February 12, 2015
The focus on legalised online poker in California was very obvious in the first days of the 20th Western Indian Gaming Conference currently taking place in Sacramento, with the chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, Daniel Tucker, calling for tribal unity on the issue – something that has been notably lacking as individual […]
February 11, 2015
California tribal interests gathering this week at the 20th annual Western Indian Gaming Conference have the contentious subject of legalised online poker high on the agenda, according to local media reports. Differences of opinion and self-interest among tribal groups has been one of the causes bedevilling the legalisation of online poker in California, an issue […]
February 6, 2015
The introduction of HB1114, an online poker legalisation bill sponsored by Representative Sherry Appleton, a Democrat from the 23rd District has seemingly fallen flat. Curtis Woodard posted on Online Poker Report Thursday that Appleton responding to a constituent who commented on the bill, said: “The bill did not get the support that I had originally […]
January 23, 2015
In a routine move applicable to new legislative proposals in Washington State, the state Office of Financial Management has published its fiscal notes on HB 1114, a measure seeking to legalise intrastate online poker introduced earlier this month by Rep. Sherry Appleton (see previous report). If successful, Appleton’s proposal would reverse an aggressive anti-online poker […]
January 23, 2015
California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a veteran state politician who has been in the forefront of previous (failed) online poker legalisation drives, has introduced a new bill to the Californian House. Titled AB 167, the bill takes a more moderate approach to that adopted by Assemblyman Mike Gatto in a similar initiative (AB 9) that is […]
January 22, 2015
Lawmakers in Nebraska are to debate the nature of poker and whether it can be classified as a game of skill following the introduction of a bill to the state legislature by Senator Tyson Larson. Classification of poker as a game in which skill predominates over luck is a key element in deciding whether the […]
January 14, 2015
You have to give Mississippi state Representative Bobby Moak credit for sheer perseverance; with the state legislature just back in session this Democratic Party politician has launched his fourth consecutive bill proposing the legalisation of intrastate online poker. Never-say-die Moak has retitled and reintroduced his Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act Of 2015 this week, apparently […]
January 12, 2015
Washington State, notorious for being the most online player-hostile state in the union for its draconian laws against online gambling, may be offered an antidote to its poisonous legislation following the introduction of an online poker legalisation bill by Representative Sherry Appleton, a Democrat from the 23rd District. Online players in Washington are treated as […]
December 3, 2014
The debate on internet poker legalisation is once again in the California headlines as the state embarks on its fourth year of deliberations on the controversial topic, which involves tribal, racing, online and card room interests. The move Tuesday came from Assemblyman Mike Gatto, a respected state politician who had a bill ready to go […]
October 14, 2014
In what appears to be a campaign channeled primarily through social media like Facebook and Twitter, MGM Resorts International is reportedly pushing for legalised online poker in New York, reports the New York Times. The central message of the “Let NY Play” drive is that if people in New Jersey can play poker online legally, […]