May 1, 2016
California’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, reportedly voiced her opposition to the latest online poker legalisation attempt in California – Assembly Bill 2863 – prior to its consideration by the Assembly’s Governmental Organization Committee last week (see previous report). In a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly, Anthony Rendon, and the president of the Senate, […]
April 28, 2016
California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863 proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker survived Wednesday’s two hour hearing by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee and advanced on a vote of 18 vs. 0. Its continued progress marked only the second time in a decade-long series of attempts to get a legalisation bill through a California […]
April 23, 2016
With the ink barely dry on its federal court authority to start an international online poker operation from servers on its tribal lands (see previous reports) the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is moving fast to get the show on the road. On Friday the tribe announced a timetable for the launch of PokerTribe which includes […]
April 22, 2016
Assemblyman Adam Gray’s California Assembly bill AB2863 – due for consideration at a hearing next Wednesday (see previous reports) – became the centre of attention this week when a late amendment again raised the spectre of the notoriously anti-competitive “bad actor” clause. Tribal opponents of the entry into the local market of Pokerstars have repeatedly […]
April 19, 2016
Hopes for a regulated and licensed online poker industry in California have surged again on the news that Assemblyman Adam Gray’s legalisation bill will be debated before the state Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization next Wednesday (27 April). Gray, as chair of the Committee, has shown remarkable tenacity and patience in trying to obtain agreement […]
April 14, 2016
The wide range of interested parties in the legalisation of online poker in California (see previous reports) will be preparing for the next round of debate on Wednesday April 20, when the California Assembly Governmental Organization (GO) Committee has scheduled a hearing to discuss Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863. Preparing the ground for their views, […]
April 13, 2016
According to Steve Stallings, chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, an amended online poker bill will be heard by California law makers by the end of this month. The bill submitted by California State Assemblyman Adam Gray in February “is set to move ahead,” Stallings told Card Player in an exclusive interview, “with […]
April 6, 2016
Professional poker player Jay Sharon and seven other men have been arrested in New York and Las Vegas for charges surrounding the operation of a $3.5 million-a-year illegal sports betting ring, reports in the publication MetroUS indicate. The publication quotes a press statement from the Queen Attorney General, Richard A. Brown, revealing that a joint […]
March 22, 2016
What may well prove to be positive news on internet poker legalisation in the state of New York emerged this week when it was revealed that the regulation of online poker envisaged in Senator John Bonacic’s S5302B measure (see previous report) has been included in the state’s $154 billion budget plan – still being negotiated […]
March 18, 2016
In Oklahoma, there has been a surprise breakthrough in the bid by the Iowa tribe to set up an international online poker site outside the USA, using Universal Entertainment Group’s branding PokerTribe.com. Our readers may recall that late last year the state’s opposition to the Iowa tribe’s intentions ended up in an independent arbitration action. […]