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 23, 2014
Previous attempts to get regulatory and licensing laws for online poker through the New York State Legislature may have failed, but reports from the state indicate that another attempt will be made in 2015. Legalisation by the Empire State could be a major breakthrough in the USA; New York has a population more than twice […]
December 17, 2014
US online poker fans currently have an opportunity to voice their opinions on government regulation of the game through a University of Las Vegas study being supervised by Professor Bradley S. Wimmer of the university’s Lee Business School. The study is restricted to American players aged at least 21 years and takes the form of […]
December 5, 2014
It hasn’t taken long for the powerful coalition of Pokerstars, two Californian tribal groups and three major card rooms to react to AB9, an online poker legalisation bill launched this week by Californian Assemblyman Mike Gatto…and the response is negative. In a brief statement the coalition of Amaya-Pokerstars, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the […]
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 […]
November 18, 2014
Josh Rubenstein, a senior exec with the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in California discussed the positive possibilities for legalised Californian online poker this week with the publication California Online Poker, opining that a properly structured licensing regime has the potential to benefit all of the state’s gaming bodies. Rubenstein explained that horse racing, which employs […]
October 24, 2014
Next month US voters will decide the political fate of a third of the US Senate and all of the House of Representatives in the November congressional elections, and in a timely move the Poker Players Alliance has provided some guidance on which members of the political establishment are hell-bent on banning online gambling. Voting […]