January 19, 2017
The Poker Players Alliance’s energetic executive director, John Pappas, flew into Washington state this week to give evidence before a Washington state Senate committee on the benefits of online gambling legalisation. Washington has some of the most draconian anti-online gambling laws in the United States,but is re-examining the possibilities through the Senate Committee on Commerce, […]
February 19, 2016
Online poker supporters hoping for a “second time lucky” success for an online poker legalisation bill in Washington State were disappointed this week when the bill failed to gain traction and missed a mid-February legislative deadline, condemning it to failure for another year. HB1114, sponsored by state Representatives Sherry Appleton and Vincent Buys, sought to […]
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 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 […]
April 22, 2014
Poker activist Curtis Woodard is a persistent man determined to legalise online poker in his home state of Washington, which has arguably the most draconian anti-online gambling laws in the Union, allowing it to prosecute its own citizens for even playing. This week he told the publication Bluff that despite two previous failed attempts, he […]