Thanks to the Department of Justice changing their long-held opinion regarding online gambling in the United States, each individual state can decide their own online gambling destiny. Since that changed late last year, both Nevada and Delaware have passed legislation which allows online gambling for residents and visitors when located in those state boundaries. A recent interactive gaming bill just hit the Nevada legislative branch that, if passed, would allow for players in other states to enjoy online poker and other online gaming options offered by the Silver State.
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NJ Senate Says OK to Online Gambling – Governor Christie’s Turn Once Again
New Jersey online gambling proponents are holding their breath. In 2011 a legislative package which would legalize online casino gambling in New Jersey passed through the State Assembly by nearly a 6 to 1 margin. The Internet interactive gaming bill was then easily approved by the state Senate, and needed only to receive Governor Christie’s okay and signature to make the Garden State the first US state at that time to legalize an online gambling package. It didn’t happen.
Iowa Regulators Ready to OK Online Poker in Hawkeye State
With the Fiscal Cliff plunge a near economic reality in the United States, individual states are looking to add much needed revenue to their coffers. Rather than hope and pray that the federal level of legislators will contain the impending economic doom that appears close to inevitable, states like New Jersey and California are edging …
Poker Stars Positioning For Online Poker In New Jersey Casino
Is Poker Stars positioning themselves for online poker in the Garden State? US gambling laws currently allow for the individual states in the US to adopt whatever form of online poker legislation they agree upon. But since the change in the Department of Justice opinion came last December, only Delaware and Nevada have decided to legalize online poker play for their residents and travelers located in their state boundaries. While Poker Stars currently enjoys a favorable status with the DOJ, it appears they are making the move into the off-line poker community in New Jersey with their eyes on offering online poker in the near future.
Can Online Poker Stop US from Plummeting off Fiscal Cliff?
If you live in the United States, you have no doubt heard about the impending “Fiscal Cliff” from which we are about to plummet in 2013. Let me be straightforward here, I am in no way discounting our current problematic economic situation in the United States. But it seems like all we have heard about lately is the impending fiscal cliff from which our currently unstable economic situation will fall if our lame-duck Congress doesn’t take drastic measures before the end of this year. Why are we discussing this in an online poker blog? Because online poker very well could prove to be the much-needed brakes that keep the United States economic vehicle from crashing.
Nevada Brick-and-Mortar Casinos Apply for Virtual Poker Licenses
During this wonderful holiday season, Americans generally take a moment to reflect on the past year and count their blessings. Online poker players in Nevada, as well as travelers to The Silver State, can be thankful that Nevada was the first state to pass online poker legislation in the United States this year. Delaware is the only other state to follow up on the United States Department of Justice allowance that each individual state choose their online poker destiny, but it appears Nevada is the clear front runner to officially shuffle up and deal online with the legal blessing of the United States government. Currently 12 operators have been approved for online interactive gaming licenses in Nevada, but the list of applicants continues to grow.
Lame-Duck Session in Congress Good or Bad for Online Poker
Is the possible passage of gambling laws in the United States more favorable or less favorable now that Congress is in a lame-duck session? With the inability of Congress to agree on just about anything, it is hard to envision any situation that would guarantee a clear-cut legislative victory which would allow Internet gambling in the United States. But whether you voted for him or not, Obama’s reelection actually speaks volumes for the possibilities of getting some nationwide gambling laws passed before Congress reconvenes in 2013, possibly in 2012.
US Gambling Online State of the Union Post Election
After December of last year saw the United States Department of Justice flip-flop their opinion regarding online gambling in the US, the door was left open for individual states to decide their online gambling destiny. Almost immediately Nevada passed legislation allowing online poker for their residents and visitors inside their state boundaries, and Delaware followed suit. Since then many states have pushed for some form of online gambling legislation, and the recent elections in the United States will have a lot to say about what the future of online gambling in America looks like in 2013.
PA and CT Testing Online Poker Waters With Free-Play Sites
With both Delaware and Nevada in the United States ready to virtually shuffle up and deal, several other states have been pushing to cash in on the virginal legalized poker Internet phenomenon in the US. The United States Department of Justice late last year changed their opinion on online poker, and now allows each individual state to decide their own online poker fate. The Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut and Pocono Downs Casino in Pennsylvania will be offering free play online poker as a way of testing the pay for play waters in advance of possible Internet poker legislation in those two states, and at the federal level in the US.
Nevada GCB OK’s MGM Resorts for Online Poker License
The Nevada state Gaming Control Board (GCB) that is responsible for recommending companies for interactive gaming online licenses met on Thursday, November 1 to consider the merits of multiple online poker applicants looking for licenses. Nevada was the first state to legalize online poker after the United States Department of Justice passed that responsibility onto the state level in late 2011. Obviously, those companies which get involved on the ground level will have a leg up on the competition in both Nevada and the United States overall, and the GCB recommended MGM Resorts International as a license holder along with two other companies Thursday.