Senator Ray Lesniak is in agreement with the many United States pro-online gambling analysts regarding payment processing of Internet gambling deposits. The 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) attacks primarily Internet gambling payment transactions. The law states that it is unlawful for US-based companies to handle real money transactions over the Internet which take place with the intent to use that money for Web gambling. This led to the shutdown of the three largest US Internet poker sites in 2011, and a significant departure from the Internet gambling scene by many legitimate payment processors and other US companies. Legally licensed offshore operators have fortunately filled the void, but legislators like Lesniak would prefer to see US money stay at home.
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Is California Next United States Gambling Online Industry Participant?
Less than 24 hours before the session deadline for introduction of new bills in California, two pieces of legislation quickly appeared. The two proposals concerned getting online poker, and possibly other forms of Internet gambling, legalized in the Golden State. With a very historic and rich physical poker room history, California has surprisingly shot down multiple attempts in the past by both government and tribal leaders that would legalize online poker. However, there are a couple of substantial reasons to believe that these newly proposed Internet poker packages might have a decent chance of passage – government proponents and Indian tribal support.
US Gambling Online Moves to Mobile As Nine States Push for Legal Internet Gambling in 2014
United States gambling online is currently supported by just three states which have supported state-based companies for offering Internet poker. New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware all deliver the ability to shuffle up and deal online while placing real money wagers. While Delaware and Nevada also offer online casino gambling, at least nine other states are looking to legalize cyber gambling in some form. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania are all pushing to enter the United States gambling online industry in 2014, and New Jersey is pressing to add Internet sports gambling. To use roulette terminology, the online gambling wheel is spinning. And when the ball drops, mobile gaming and gambling for real money will no doubt be a large part of the picture.
How Networks and Chris Moneymaker Relate to the Historical Delaware – Nevada Online Poker Pact
What do the power of networking, telephones and fax machines have to do with the United States online gambling industry? Only everything. And where does Chris Moneymaker fit into the recent Delaware – Nevada online gambling partnership? Hopefully as a predictor of future growth. The economic concept of a network effect basically shows that products …
US Based Online Gambling Alive and Well – Banking Options Playing Catch-Up
Legally licensed offshore Internet casinos, poker rooms and sportsbooks have always offered, and continue to offer, reliable credit card account funding to US and international gamers. However, using your preferred piece of plastic to open and finance an online web casino or poker account offered by the new state-sponsored legislation in the United States is not as easy. Kudos to the usually grumpy and “no fun allowed” Department of Justice in the United States for allowing individual states to now decide their own Internet gambling destiny. Now it is up to those state legislators to cajole and incentivize financial institutions to deliver competent credit card account funding for real money Internet gaming accounts.
NJ Officially Launches Real Money Internet Casino and Poker
Joining Nevada and Delaware as the only three US states legally offering Internet gambling options, New Jersey’s Atlantic City casino-based Internet gambling empire has officially been established. Running a minimal number of websites licensed through Atlantic City’s brick-and-mortar casinos, the Garden State experienced minimal problems on its first few days of test launch Internet gambling access. Only residents of and travelers to Atlantic City and other parts of New Jersey can legally access this history making Internet gambling industry, and with less than one week of virtual Vegas style gambling under its belt, state legislators are already looking to the future and possible expansion of their New Jersey online casino and poker platforms.
Delaware Makes History As First State to Deliver a Full Suite of Internet Gambling
Delaware chose Halloween night to deliver some frightfully good news to its state’s residents and visitors. The First State made history as the first state to deliver what Delaware legislators are calling a “full suite” of Internet gambling options for real money. After the United States Department of Justice gave each individual state the go-ahead …
California Internet Poker Bill – Tribal Coalitions and CA Senator Pushing for Passage
Even though the California Legislature has finished the 2013 session without ruling on Internet poker and online gambling legislation in the Golden State, many industry analysts and poker proponents both in California and elsewhere in the United States believe early 2014 passage of an Internet poker Bill is a foregone conclusion. John Pappas is the Executive Director of the nonprofit Poker Players Alliance (PPA) in the US, a local organization with powerful backers which has been a vocal proponent for legal Internet poker in the United States for some time.
Online Gaming Giant Zynga Axes US Online Gambling Plans
Zynga is a company that is well known by many of the more than 1 billion regular Facebook users. Some of the most used applications on that social networking giant are “play money” casinos and poker rooms, and the undisputed king of that venue is Zynga. Recently their shares skyrocketed, as did the hopes of US online gamblers, when the company dramatically announced they were seeking Internet interactive licensing in Nevada which would allow them to offer real money gambling applications and games online. However, the company’s shares and the finger-crossed dreams of prospective real money online gamblers in the United States were both dashed this week.
US Poker Bill Champion Joe Barton – Greatest Fake Money Player in the World
I have never regarded myself as the best “anything” in the world, but I guess that is where I differ from Texas congressman Joe Barton. The lifelong card player and lover of both play money and real money poker recently introduced a US online poker bill that proposes nationwide legislation. HR 2666 is titled the Internet Poker Freedom Act, and was created by Barton to offer a safe and consistent US online poker experience for all 50 states. It is similar in some ways to Congressman Peter King’s (R-NY) recently introduced US internet gambling bill, but Barton actually owns a poker pedigree.