Pennsylvania Legislature Pitches Online Gambling Bill – Again

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Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey are all in. California, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho, Hawaii and several other states want to join the party. What are we referring to? Online gambling of course. Back in early February we informed you of a possible move by Pennsylvania legislators to introduce House Bill 1235, a long-awaited online gambling bill. …

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Massachusetts Next State Up With Online Poker?

Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey – that is the batting order for US states which have already passed some form of online gambling legislation legalizing the activity for their residents and visitors. And while California, Hawaii, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania and other states have been pushing to offer their own brand of online gambling, it looks like Massachusetts could be the next state up to bat. 18 Massachusetts House of Representatives members recently attached a rider to their annual budget which would legalize and regulate online poker.

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WSOP.com Inches Closer to Nevada Poker Launch

Nevada was the first state to take advantage of a reversed United States Department of Justice mindset regarding online poker. Way back in December of 2011 the Grinch-like DOJ grew a heart and made a holiday season gift just a couple of days before Christmas of their ruling that only gambling on sporting contests online should be illegal at the federal level. Everything else could be handled individually at the state level, and Nevada rapidly, in early 2012, legalized online poker.

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Big Apple Budget Proposes Online Gambling Legalization in New York

Here is the time-line of events. The United States Department of Justice reverses their long-held opinion that all forms of online gambling are illegal in December of 2011, advising individual states to make that decision for themselves. In early 2012, Nevada becomes the historic first state to legalize online poker soon after that landmark decision, and they are followed up by both Delaware and New Jersey. Here in 2013, none of those states has yet to officially deal the first hand of poker online, but Nevada legislators recently announced that watershed event will happen this May.

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