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Now we just have to hope the jesus freak republicans remember that "states's rights" are more important than campaign contribution from Adelson.

The practical implementation seems much less important than the potential here. If the DOJ allows this interstate commerce, then billion-dollar casino companies that already have hundreds of lobbyists working in almost every state capital will get very excited. One large state like NY or CA, and we have the second internet poker boom.

I really wish this was just an issue that was being caused by the religious nut-job politicians. I live in one of the most liberal, non-religious states that exists (WA) and it seems there is little hope for online poker anytime soon here. Go ahead and smoke all the weed you want (which I have no problem with), but we apparently draw the line at playing poker online.

It's like the saying goes, think about how stupid the average politician is...and then realize half of them are stupider than that. (Credit: George Carlin albeit edited for specific purpose of politicians).

lmao wp

no if ur in DE u still need to play on a DE site, just that u might have a player from NV at ur table now. But u can't sign up on ultimate NV now from DE or play on there if i understand this correctly.

Great news, but bummed my NJ isn't on board yet

I applaud the compact, but seriously doubt that the people empowered to make the decisions that directly led to the dismal roll out of Delaware on line poker will be removed from positions of authority. The current trend to realize less than 1/3 of the estimated revenue is a direct reflection of someone's (at lottery) inability to make good "POKER" decisions. And unless the Delaware governor reacts to poor performance and changes the personnel and associated bureaucracy, I don't envision much improvement for them. I also don't see what's in it for Nevada except publicity. Right now there are 26 people playing on line poker in Delaware. Some are playing multi tables reducing real life participation. The state would have had more success with college interns running the show. In fact, I'm not sure how the performance from the start could have been worse. Yet, nobody is accountable. How do these guys earn a pay check? What Delaware has done with on line poker is an example of government at it's very worst.

Much in the same way a lot of players I know of here in Nevada, it could be a case of Delaware grinders sitting on the sidelines because of a lack of games. Now that DE residents can access a larger player pool, they may jump in and actually play.

So have the pools been merged yet?

The thought is good but the implementation of this is terrible. Delaware's online poker sites are all tied to land based casinos -- Delaware Park, Dover Downs and Harrington Raceway. A Nevada player has to download new software to play at those sites and vice versa. The irony is that all the Delaware sites and WSOP.com are 888 skins, but we can't just pool everyone together using them.

Yeah that makes absolutely no sense

True, recent numbers indicate that those three casino's will realize exactly zero of the revenue to date. This, because Delaware predicted 5 million in rake and now looks for that number to be closer to 1.5 million. Their deal with the casino's include a provision that the state gets the first 3 million and splits money from there. Because they have poker idiots running the roll out, more than likely it's a losing proposition. Seriously, how do they morph that into a negative revenue stream without putting poorly qualified people in charge. They think that on line poker is the figgin power ball.

LOL, AZ is much closer in population to NJ than it is to Delaware. Your argument is correct, but your random example states to prove a point could use some work.

There are still lots of details to be worked out and currently there is no operator active in both states.

It's the first step of many but it's a big one.

A while. Both states will have to write regulations to make this work. But once the pool has started, it will be easier for other states to jump in ( pun intended )

From the State of Delaware Multistate Internet Gaming Agreement Stream on Tue. Feb. 25, 2014

(19:55)
Reporter 1:
“When does this actually go hot? People can actually do these virtual tables?” (lol)

Gov. Jack Markell (Delaware):
“We don’t have any specific dates to point to yet. This part’s a really important sort of gating factor to get the legal piece sort of out of the way. But now we’ve got to work with the platform, the technology providers. The good news is we both use the same providers. So I think that’s helpful. But we’ll be working with them. It’s really a matter now of making sure we have agreement on what it ought to look like; when people log on, do they know they’re coming into a room where there’re players from both states? That kind of thing. So those are some of the kinds of decisions that have to be made, but I think now, I think it’s in everybody’s interest to push as quickly as we can.”

Gov. Brian Sandoval (Nevada):
“And again, I agree with the Governor. I think there’s a great incentive to get that platform figured out as soon as possible.”

Reporter 2:
“Do the regulators in your two states have to do any further sign-offs on this before this goes live, or, can you kind of walk us through the regulatory moving forward.”

Gov. Sandoval:
“Well, in terms of Nevada, there’s already the regulations in place for us to do this. There’s a provision within the agreement, and I can’t remember the exact term for what it’s called, but it’s a committee that will be comprised of the regulators from each state, one representative from each regulatory board that will have the opportunity to review any new member states. But as far as Nevada’s concerned, we have the green light.”

Gov. Markell:
“And that’s true here as well, because, think about it this way; we already have regulations in place because we’ve already started the online gaming. The regulations that were developed before we put that into place will continue to be the regulations that apply to Delaware participants.”

According to a (now closed) online poll conducted by DelawareOnline with 110 participants:

"Do you think the Nevada-Delaware web gambling pact is a good thing?"

"Yes, it'll boost Delaware's economy": 22.7% (25 votes)
"I don't think it'll make much of a difference": 30.9% (34 votes)
"No, we shouldn't be promoting gambling": 46.4% (51 votes)

move to bbv

Regardless of execution, the policy precedent is nice.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/politic...-security-bill

This is pretty awesome and a great sign for the future, why people slam this

Because there are many cities that have more poker players than the whole state of Delaware so it's a bit frustrating to finally make some progress but with probably the least recognized state in the U.S. let alone for poker popularity.

They won't be allowed to log onto ultimate. But yes it would just add more acceptable geo locations for account verification

Delaware's online player pool is indeed tiny. Besides being a boon for us poker-playing Delaware residents, the pact with Nevada is a guide for successfully handling the logistics of states joining with one another to grow the return of regulated interstate online poker.

While this is true, I've generally assumed it would start like this, mostly out of necessity for the less populous states. The neighboring states to the two-state cluster of Jersey and Delaware are pretty substantial, plus another one (Connecticut) already has a footing in the B&M scene.

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