Only one state has joined the ranks of states with legal online poker in the past five years, and that was Pennsylvania in 2017. Other state lawmakers have proposed bills, some have pushed them through committees, and even one (hello, Michigan) passed an online poker bill all the way through
It started just before Christmas in 2018. World Series of Poker executives started releasing information about the 2019 WSOP, beginning with some of the highlighted events and added more on a nearly-weekly basis through the first weeks of this year. On the last day of January 2019, the final schedule
The Commonwealth of Kentucky took action this week on its sports betting legislation, which also bodes well for online poker and fantasy sports, both of which are included in the bill. As the bill has been alive for little more than two weeks, it has already garnered substantial bipartisan support
West Virginia State Delegate Shawn Fluharty has wanted online gambling legalized in his state for several years, and it seems that he is making it happen in 2019. After introducing one bill at the start of the first session in January, Fluharty partnered with a group of bipartisan lawmakers to
The state of online gaming in the United States is in flux. The most recent Department of Justice decision about the Wire Act put it there, but it is now flailing about with no clear direction. To be more specific, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel reversing the 2011 Wire
It took just one month for the first lawsuit to be filed after the latest Wire Act opinion was made public. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel revealed the full opinion on January 15, 2019. And one month to the day, the first lawsuit is on the books.
A new year is often a chance to start fresh, to makes changes for the better, to improve from the past year. New Jersey’s internet gaming business made those resolutions for 2019, but it wasn’t evident if the online poker segment would hold up its end of the deal. Online
It’s been less than a year since the sports betting world opened up to every state in America. The US Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in May 2018, courtesy of a years-long court battle initiated by the state of New Jersey pushing for the
The last few years of legislative activity in West Virginia have produced a handful of bills pertaining to gambling and online wagering, but none were brought to committees for serious discussion. It looks like 2019 could be a very different story. With two weeks of the start of 2019, West
In previous lists of states most likely to consider legalizing online poker, Kentucky was omitted. Not only was it a state that feared any competition for its horse racing industry, Kentucky was at the center of a years-long battle with online gaming companies. Then-Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear had been so
The state of New York and its journey with online poker has been a confusing and disappointing one thus far, and the path it takes in 2019 seems it will remain so. In just a few weeks of a new year, a new online poker supporter emerged in the New
Former New Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak remains widely respected by current members of the state’s government, as evidenced by recent actions pertaining to the recent Wire Act decision issued by the US Department of Justice. The Attorneys General of New Jersey and Pennsylvania took Lesniak’s recent advice to contact the
