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Originally Posted by Sabotage
Maybe Rich can voice in on this. Even if sb 1463 is re introduced with less than favorable clauses, rake etc.. will they support (what I consider to be) a move forward in online poker. The more states approving online poker the more likely a bill on a federal level will be pushed, no? Maybe I'm just being selfish but I would like to see California advancing and possibly serving as a springboard for something bigger.
Rich can speak for himself, of course.
And if you are really convinced supporting the current CA initiatives/bills is worthwhile you are obviously free to copy the DAP style and use it for CA residents.
But I have my reservations about everything that has so far been proposed in CA and those reservations center on the part I put in bold in your post.
All the CA bills I have seen so far would intentionally and irrevocably isolate CA poker players from the rest of the US. I personally am against this.
The main reason this has been in every CA bill is also the main reason no CA bill has yet passed: it is the basis for protecting and dividing the market so that only the chosen few will have the ability to rake CA poker players (and as long as they cant agree on who the chosen few will be, no bill will pass).
We all know that CA has a big enough market to support poker all on its own. And we all want to see online poker in CA. But those of us not in CA also want the ability to play online poker against CA players. Allowing for that, however, interferes with the monopoly (or shared monopoly) that has been enshrined in all CA bills so far.
Be careful what you wish for.
Skallagrim