Poker Legislation News
Last March, the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) learned that its complaint filed with the European Commission would be acted on. The complaint stems from the passage of the UIGEA) in 2006. Read more »
In breaking news out of New Jersey, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) is suing to declare the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) unconstitutional. The organization is also involved with trying to overturn the UIGEA through the courts. Read more »
With the legality of poker in the news in South Carolina, the President Pro Tem of the Senate, Glenn McConnell, has called for hearings over the next couple of weeks to examine the possibility of legalizing friendly home poker games and charity raffles. Read more »
In recent article on Forbes.com, it was revealed that elected officials of the State of Kentucky are looking at expanding the gaming options for visitors to and residents of the state. Now, the only gaming that is offered is betting on horse racing, which raises millions of dollars for the Kentucky state coffers. Read more »
Recently, 2004 WSOP Main Event Champion Greg Raymer appeared on Fox Business on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance to discuss the legality of online poker as well as efforts by Barney Frank to regulate and tax the industry. Among his notable assertions was that the UIGEA does not apply to online poker. Read more »
While the United States has been unable or unwilling to broach the regulation of the online gaming world, Europe has - in some cases - ventured into that area. Countries such as England and Ireland have introduced regulation of the online poker and gaming worlds with a great deal of success. Read more »
After years of attempting to implement a nationalized online gaming system - and difficulties with the European Union over it - France is now looking to make changes to its system to allow for international competition for its citizens' online wagers. Read more »
A constitutional amendment introduced last week in Alabama by State Senator Hank Erwin could shut out games of chance from the Southern state. Senate Bill 470 was referred to the Tourism and Marketing Subcommittee. Erwin represents the 14th District of Alabama. Read more »
In an effort to prove that poker is a game of skill, not chance, one poker training site has issued a unique challenge to President Barack Obama and any member of the U.S. Congress. Bluefire Poker is putting up one million to one odds that an amateur from Capitol Hill cannot defeat any of its pros. Read more »
On Tuesday, iMEGA, which is suing to declare the UIGEA unconstitutional, learned that the U.S. Department of Justice denied its request to supplement the record. iMEGA had petitioned to include the complications arising in the New Hampshire and North Dakota state lotteries. Read more »
On Thursday, the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI) released the results of a study performed by U.S.-based PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company found that up to $51.9 billion over a ten year period could be raised by taxing and regulating the internet gambling industry. Read more »
Now that a $700 billion bailout has successfully passed the United States Senate and House of Representatives, lawmakers' attention may now turn to internet gambling, according to an article released by Reuters on Friday. Read more »
In breaking news from South Carolina, Judge Larry Duffy "wrote that there is ‘overwhelming' evidence that the card game is one of skill, not chance," according to the Associated Press. Nevertheless, the PPA, which has been heavily involved in the case, was still faced with the five defendants being found guilty. Read more »
In 2006, Bob Chimento's home game in South Carolina, which at the time hosted 20 players, was broken up by police. Three years later, his fate will be determined by Judge Larry Duffy on Thursday, when a decision is expected. Read more »
The Commonwealth of Kentucky petitioned its State Supreme Court for 30 additional pages in order to explain its case against the owners of 141 internet gambling domain names. Regularly, 50 pages are allowed in Supreme Court briefs; attorneys for Kentucky are asking for 80. Read more »
A Massachusetts state bill that has been in the works for nearly a year and a half looks to be moving forward once again, this time with clauses deep in the bill that would criminalize online poker and gaming removed from its language. Read more »
On Friday, it was revealed that a Pennsylvania ruling by Judge Thomas James that poker is a game of skill will be appealed to the state's Superior Court, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper. Read more »
In a form letter issued by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) to President Barack Obama for members to fill out, it was revealed that legalizing and regulating online poker finished 11th overall in the Citizen's Briefing Book. In terms of the number of comments logged, the issue landed in second place. Read more »
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law held a hearing entitled "Midnight Rulemaking: Shedding Some Light." The goal was to examine the impact and possible remedies for midnight rules. Read more »
In an interview with the Financial Times this week, it was revealed that Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) will reintroduce legislation favorable to internet gambling "in the next few weeks." During the previous Congress, Frank introduced HR 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act. Read more »
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law will hold a hearing entitled, "Midnight Rulemaking: Shedding Some Light." The significance for online poker players is that one of the first items to be discussed is HR 34, the Midnight Rule Act, which could potentially undo the regulations of the UIGEA. Read more »
In the January 27th edition of Capitol Hill publication Roll Call, a familiar name and face spoke out about the importance of legalizing and regulating online poker in the United States. The piece, entitled, "The New Deal: Regulate and Tax iPoker," was authored by Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Chairman Alfonse D'Amato, a former three-term Senator from the state of New York. Read more »
Following recent successes in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, the legality of poker as a game of skill will once again be the center of attention of court proceedings. This time, the focus will be on the state of South Carolina, where one college student's fate rests on whether poker is a game of skill. Read more »
The third ruling favorable to online poker in 2009 came down this week, this time in the state of Colorado. In a case that pitted Kevin Raley against the State for operating a poker league, a jury found Raley not guilty of illegal gambling. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), which boasts 13,000 members in the state, commented on the victorious ruling. Read more »
To say that it has been an eventful week for the internet gambling and online poker industries would be an enormous understatement. Poker News Daily took the pulse of the online poker industry to gauge its reaction to the recent ruling and appeal in Kentucky. Read more »
