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Originally Posted by parisron
Why not each pot is contributed rake based on State instead of by player like some sites do. Then every month or quarter they chop it up.
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Originally Posted by PTLou
could someone explain how this is done for euro countries that share pools.
US states sort of like individual US states in this regard.
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Originally Posted by PTLou
a hand of poker is dealt in a cash game with a player from DE, 2 from NV and and 3 from NJ in after the flop. only 1 from NV and one from NJ at river
its raked $3 in total.
How do states split the tax revenue on that $3 of gaming revenue?
Note, this is already a solved problem - today UK, Danish, Estonian, Romanian, Belgian and Czech players all sit together at online cash games, alonside players who fall under "offshore" licenses in Malta/Gibraltar/IOM. Operators pay to all these authorities based on who contributed what to a cash game pot (obviously for tournaments it is easy).
As I understand it, operators often have a lot of latitude with this. Weird as it sounds, in most cases is it not precisely defined in regulations, and operators generally decide themselves how they want to chop it up. That's how I've had it described to me by more than one online poker room exec.
In reality, in every case I know of, I think operators use a weighted contributed system the same as they attribute rake for rewards programs.
Regarding timelines - The FR/IT/ES/PT regulators signed a similar agreement in July and expect to have something online within six months from that date; maybe with just 2 countries first, maybe with all four in a coordinated fashion. That's four countries each with very different rules; NJ joining the NV/DE pool should in theory be a simpler process.