June 13, 2016
The lines are being drawn in the political battle for online poker legalisation in California; last week a Pechanga-led tribal coalition expressed disagreement with certain clauses in the latest version of Assemblyman’s Adam Gray’s AB2863 (see previous report), and Friday saw an equally pointed response supporting the bill from an impressive alliance of 21 state […]
June 9, 2016
Wednesday’s gathering of the Michigan Senate’s Regulatory Reform Committee wasted little time in voting forward to the Senate floor a bill authored by Sen. Mike Kowall and proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker. SB 889 has seen remarkably quick progress since it was introduced in April this year by the Senator, advancing despite allegations […]
June 8, 2016
New amendments to California Assembly Bill AB2863 revealed this week show that legislators are still working hard to broker some sort of compromise that will appease tribal groups, cardrooms and other interested parties in the search for intrastate legalisation of online poker. Detailing the latest changes, the usually reliable publication Online Poker Report notes that […]
June 3, 2016
With Sen. John Bonacic’s online poker legalisation bill making progress in the New York state Legislature’s committee stages (see previous reports), the US land gambling giant MGM Resorts International has come out in support. The Nevada-based group commented Thursday that the Bonacic measure recognises that millions of New Yorkers play online poker on unregulated and […]
June 2, 2016
Amidst the drama surrounding the daily fantasy sports debate in both the New York House and the Senate, an important advance on internet poker legalisation occurred almost unnoticed. The Senate Finance Committee quickly and without fuss approved Sen. John Bonacic’s legalisation bill S5302 on a 9 vs. 0 vote and sent it to the Senate […]
May 15, 2016
AB 2863, a California intrastate online poker legalisation bill that was recently approved by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee on an 18 vs, 0 vote (see previous reports) will again be the centre of attraction on May 18, when the Assembly Appropriations Committee will hear testimony and consider the measure for further progress. The issue […]
May 13, 2016
Michigan Senator Mike Kowall remains optimistic that his proposal to legalise intrastate online poker will bear fruit this year following its first successful hearing in the state Senate Regulatory Reform Committee last week (see previous reports). Dave Biswas, an aide on the senator’s staff revealed this week that there will likely be another airing of […]
May 9, 2016
Forum exchanges over the weekend indicate that around 1,500 Full Tilt petitioners have had their claims rejected by the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering division of the US Department of Justice following review. Players affected report that they received emails notifying them of the disqualification and giving them until May 17 to file appeals. The […]
May 4, 2016
this week the Californian newspaper Sacramento Bee published an editorial critical of AB2863, a bill currently at committee stage in the California state legislature which seeks to licence and regulate online poker. Within days that criticism has sparked a response from the Poker Players Alliance. Writing in a special op-ed article in the newspaper, PPA […]
May 3, 2016
Barely a month after it was introduced to the Michigan Senate by Sen. Mike Kowall (see previous report) online poker legalisation measure SB889 is to be the subject of a hearing in the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee tomorrow (Wednesday May 4). The bill has a good chance of making progress, considering that five of the […]