California online poker at one point was deemed all but a certainty for 2014. Now that individual US states have the ability to license and regulate Internet poker and casino gambling for their residents, Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware have already done so. But the provision which laid the way for state-sanctioned Internet poker in the United States came into existence in December of 2011. With legally licensed offshore poker providers benefiting financially from US citizens living in those states where online poker is not currently delivered at the state level, it would make sense for cash-strapped states like California to get on board the growing US Internet gambling industry.
Month: May 2014
Could a Pennsylvania Online Gambling Industry Outperform New Jersey
The United States gambling online industry still currently counts just three states as participants; New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada. Nevada’s next-door neighbor, California, boasts the largest population of any state in the US. That makes it very attractive when you consider potential revenue production if online gambling in the form of poker and/or casino games was legally presented to its residents. And it looked like Golden State web poker was going to become a reality in 2014, but it now appears that 2015 is probably the earliest that California residents will be able to legally play online poker at state-sanctioned California online poker websites.
Why are US Gamblers Choosing Offshore Options Over NV, NJ, and DE Choices?
It has been almost a year since Ultimate Poker launched the new United States online gambling industry in Nevada. The Department of Justice decided it was okay for states to offer Internet gambling, as long as it was restricted to anyone physically located within that state’s boundaries, and sports gambling was not on the table. New Jersey and Delaware followed Nevada’s lead, adding Las Vegas style casino gambling as well as virtual poker, and as of this post, those three states remain the only in the US to legally deliver cyber wagering to their residents and visitors.
Will Christopher Walken Lose His King Of New York Title to Online Poker
In 1990, popular actor Christopher Walken portrayed a drug kingpin recently out of prison in the movie “King of New York”. Brutally wiping out his competition, he handed out much of the profits of his illegal operations in the film to the poor and lower classes of New York. With thoughts of running for Mayor, his altruistic but albeit questionable actions earned him the nickname which is also the title of the movie. Similar to the drug war that Walken successfully emerged from in the film, there is currently a battle taking place in the cyber world in the United States. Online gambling has legally returned at the state level in the USA, but most US Internet poker players currently enjoy legal offshore options. State legislators from The Big Apple are aggressively fighting for their state to become the fourth in the USA to get on board as they to strive to offer legal New York online gambling, hoping to gain control of much needed revenue which is moving out of state.