OnlinePokerRealMoney.com has just issued a press release detailing the current climate for online poker legislation in the United States at the State level. In the onlinepokerrealmoney.com press release a spokesman for the company explained how a recent DOJ ruling has brought new states, Hawaii and Connecticut into the online poker discussion.
Even though a number of states have attempted to pass some form of legislation allowing for the legalization and regulation of online poker within their borders (some successful and some not so successful) it is the recent decision by the US Department of Justice regarding the 1961 Wire Act and how it applies to online gaming that onlinepokerrealmoney.com feels is the game-changer for online poker legislation at the state level.
According to the onlinepokerrealmoney.com spokesman, the DOJ ruling was meant to be specific to online lottery tickets (an issue brought up by Illinois and New York) but the ruling itself seems to have given hope to virtually all forms of online gaming sans sports-betting, which was the only endeavor the DOJ felt was covered by the Wire Act.
In the press release, the site discusses Washington DC’s efforts to pass online poker legislation (a process that began last year) as well as an upcoming bill that is scheduled to be introduced in Hawaii that would setup an Internet gaming corporation in the state. There was also mention of Connecticut’s February 9th “informational forum” organized by State Representative Stephen Dargan (D) and State Senator Joan Hartley (D). The Connecticut forum was attended by representative from Mohegan Sun, Foxwoods, and the Connecticut Lottery Corporation among others.
With the new ruling by the DOJ, an arms-race of sorts seems to be developing between the states, as each tries to push through their own online poker legislation before their neighbors. You can find more information on the latest efforts by the states to pass online poker legislation at onlinepokerrealmoney.com.
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