Year: 2013

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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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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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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Legalized Internet gambling has come to the United States once again. Online gambling has been legalized in New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware in some capacity. Right now New Jersey has the largest potential player pool of those three states due to their 9 million residents. Nevada currently has a population of 3 million, with Delaware hovering around 1 million residents. But if the Lone Star State has its way, it will nearly double that combined possible player pool with their more than 26 million residents if the recent legislation proposing legalized online poker in that state is passed.

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Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey have passed online gambling packages making it legal for United States companies to operate internet gambling portals. You must be located inside those states’ boundaries as a resident or traveler to play, and those three states have positioned themselves as leaders in a multi-billion dollar online gambling business in the United States which is in its infancy. Obviously, states with larger populations stand a better chance to profit financially, and that’s what makes the recent Internet gambling bill introduced in California so important.

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Only a couple of days after next-door neighbor Nevada passed historic legislation okaying interstate gambling, California State Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) quickly submitted a new online gambling proposal. The online gambling bill would okay Internet poker in The Golden State, and is not the first time which Correa has proposed some type of online gambling for California’s residents and visitors. This new bill was filed one day after Nevada legalized interstate poker pacts with other US states, and is listed as SB678. While not yet allowing for interstate agreements, the proposal would allow online poker websites to be operated within California’s borders.

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Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey has long been a proponent of online gambling in some form. There is no question that billions of dollars are available to those states in the US which adopt some sort of online gambling legislation. And while Mr. Christie had previously on two occasions turned down the online gambling bills proposed to him, last week he said the most recent offering only needed slight tweaking for him to okay it. The changes were made, and the Governor from the Garden State made New Jersey the third state in the US to approve online gambling since the Department of Justice put that responsibility in state hands.

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