Hi Chaos_ult,
I wish I had good news for you, but most of the
Illinois "online poker" legislative proposal rhetoric has revolved around "poker runs" -- which are more akin to lottery/raffle/charity formats (but with motorcycles) than the "competitive, real money wagering" poker that we're all familiar with.
https://www.wkms.org/post/new-law-pa...inois#stream/0
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I saw that
Brett Smiley referenced Illinois' movements to facilitate online gambling (article in Post #119), and believe that similar measures will at the very least be
considered for select jurisdictions in which there are enough informed voices and organization to urgently prioritize tax revenue from iPoker//iCasino/iSportsBetting.
The
Illinois executive order signed by
Governor J.B. Pritzker is very important to mobile/online gambling, but deals with a separate (yet vitally important) obstacle that sites are threatened by in multiple jurisdictions:
in-house registration requirements.
By
waiving these previous requirements in IL, authorized mobile wagering sites are able to forego the process that would otherwise
mandate that x-player register one's personally identifiable data (PII) into a land-based casino/cardroom's database
before being allowed access to that land-based establishment's sub-licensed iGaming products. So basically customers in IL can now register directly through an authorized app/site, which proponents of the executive order may argue is even
more logical now due to land-based closures, since these services obviously wouldn't be able to launch or receive new business otherwise.
As for how such a mandate might apply to
Michigan... I'm unsure if the MGCB has
determined whether in-house registration would be required before customers could access the corresponding iGaming service. Current U.S. statewide regulations are a bit of a hodge-podge regarding this because each state has its own policies. For example, in Pennsylvania, customers are specifically
restricted from accessing
any licensed online gambling service...
even if one is physically located in the casino that literally sub-licenses its own online gambling product. So in Pennsylvania, one
must register online because that person
can't register/log-on from inside casino property either way.
So in short, such an executive order (if were to even be considered by
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer) would only be relevant if rules promulgated by the MGCB exclusively required online players to register at land-based casinos first (as opposed to facilitating this process like WSOP had been done during previous summers in
Nevada).
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My take is that those physically located in Michigan (and have been involved in this process for years... see timestamps below) have a
very firm grasp of what the issues are in the Great Lakes State, and why urgently creating a process for online gambling licensing should (or shouldn't) be prioritized at this time.
2017 Preliminary Testimony (Timestamps): https://www.parttimepoker.com/michig...ng-study-guide
If the MGCB is able to provide a process that gets MI online sports betting and iCasino launched in Q4-2020, then online poker in Michigan could be only a few short months behind them in going live. By that time perhaps there will be more inclination as to what is going to happen in the ongoing
Wire Act suit.
-David
Last edited by dhubermex; 06-25-2020 at 06:23 PM.