Nevada late summer, New Jersey next summer.

Nevada by June of this year. New Jersey by end of 2012. Still hopefull a fed bill is pushed through before the end of the year though.

Why does everyone want legislation? Dont they know they can play on merge?

thanks for the clarification.

This news has exciting implications

Thanks, I needed a good chuckle.

I don't know if the fed "root" would be easier; I do know the Barton bill would cost the states revenue. This revenue loss would mean less hope of us getting a piece back from the states.

And a no cost fed enabling bill is the most the states would need to do that.

And if the states keep their current stance of no online poker sites, they will opt out of a fed scheme...meaning it will be harder to get them to change their mind in the future.

It may be easier, hard to make that blanket statement...but the states do know they don't need to send revenue to the feds forever just because they want to legalize sites. Save trouble now...lose money forever---hard decision.


EDIT-almost forgot; about those 30+ states that want to legalize sites...what is the delay??

Thanks. I am not really opposed to the feds regulating interstate internet poker, however I don't like the idea of giving a chunk of the poker economy to the feds forever for them regulating. How much does the racing crowd pay for interstate fed licensing/regulation?

You seem sure that most states will rapidly opt-in to a fed bill; I don't know why they would change their current stance.

And why does everyone want to eat steak when theres burger king?

lol one table per site would be so awesome

I actually prefer Burger king. Their burgers are so good.

I just think you would get more states that wouldn't opt-out that otherwise wouldn't be looking into online poker. I also might be a little blindly optimistic since I believe going with a lottery compact type system would take a lot longer (see the powerball dates that I posted). I guess time will tell though. Also I wasn't the person who said the 30+ state thing.

Zero posts from Diamond Flush + NoahSD = unreadable thread.

thanks for your contribution!

Yeah I have to agree. I got the same impression when I saw it.

That said I'm basically in "I believe it when I see it mode".

lol what are you looking for? what should they say? yeah the MGM CEO really did say that. he's on tape with the words coming out of his mouth. it's confirmed the opinion of this man. what we're all supposed to do with that information is up to us and our gods.

lol, awesome

omgomgomg its coming.

interstate online poker in 2012 would be amazing. cant wait.

I predict that I will be playing online when I wake up from my nap.

Dont tell me when to jerk off.

Because as it is, the online poker sites answer to NO ONE. It's a wild wasteland out there.

What did the KGC or AGCC do to prevent or even mitigate the Full Tilt catastrophe?

Why was Russ Hamilton never punished for superusing and stealing god knows how much from how many people?

Why is Lock Poker's security so horribly inept that they couldn't spot a 100K chip
dump from an inactive account? Why have they not taken legal action against Girah as they promised?

I sincerely hope with US regulation people WILL get punished if they try half the shenanigans they did in the past. Is it really to much to ask for people to get punished when they get caught cheating / scamming because that seems like A LOT to ask for in the current online poker climate. I think the majority of Americans are merely tolerating Merge / Cake. When US ipoker gets up and running they're toast.