Will New Zealand ban online poker?
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Pokerstars will be pulling out of Australia shortly. will it happen in new zealand as well?
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No. The two events are not related anyhow. AU and NZ are fairly distinct in most relevant factors . ..
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If our government was intending to it would have happened in 2015 when they last amended the gambling act. As of right now Poker is fine to offer(online casino stuff would require a NZ license) and nothings on the table to risk it going away.
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if true it will be the first exodus in the opposite direction
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Will New Zealand ban online poker?
Probably, yiss.
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Once they get a version of the PPA daily action plan going then things will be fine.
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Hardly as much fun when you can't river the aussies any more
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Bill English probably doesn't even know what online poker is.
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I doubt it will happen but NZ is very sheepy when it comes to following Australia so you never know. I'm playing my $5.50 deep stacks while I still can.
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Originally Posted by Colin_Piddle
I doubt it will happen but NZ is very sheepy when it comes to following Australia.
I see what you did there
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New Zealand is a very odd legal setup with regard to remote gambling. The government has done a kind of Pontius Pilate on the whole thing. They ban any remote gambling based in NZ but allow offshore operators.
It would be a huge effort to ban or regulate online gambling in NZ, I doubt they want to be bothered. Any ban would be against WTO rules and regulation would be complex, take a long time and cost.
My guess is NZ will stand pat, keep saying not our problem and if citizens want to gamble offshore so be it. The only change that could make sense is some sort of Point of Consumption taxation - easy enough to do and if they go all laissez faire on the regulation, just requiring registration, another country's licence and their taxes paid. Like the UK they could link this to an advertising ban for unregistered sites or even Aus style prosecution for the unregistered. Fairly easy to do and a quick tax boost.
