June 11, 2016
Despite the patient efforts of Assemblyman Adam Gray in trying to broker a difficult compromise among interested parties in the California online poker legalisation issue (see previous reports), the future of his bill AB 2863 appears to be in peril again following statements by a powerful tribal allowance Friday expressing continued opposition. The sticking points […]
June 8, 2016
New amendments to California Assembly Bill AB2863 revealed this week show that legislators are still working hard to broker some sort of compromise that will appease tribal groups, cardrooms and other interested parties in the search for intrastate legalisation of online poker. Detailing the latest changes, the usually reliable publication Online Poker Report notes that […]
May 15, 2016
AB 2863, a California intrastate online poker legalisation bill that was recently approved by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee on an 18 vs, 0 vote (see previous reports) will again be the centre of attraction on May 18, when the Assembly Appropriations Committee will hear testimony and consider the measure for further progress. The issue […]
May 4, 2016
this week the Californian newspaper Sacramento Bee published an editorial critical of AB2863, a bill currently at committee stage in the California state legislature which seeks to licence and regulate online poker. Within days that criticism has sparked a response from the Poker Players Alliance. Writing in a special op-ed article in the newspaper, PPA […]
April 28, 2016
California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863 proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker survived Wednesday’s two hour hearing by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee and advanced on a vote of 18 vs. 0. Its continued progress marked only the second time in a decade-long series of attempts to get a legalisation bill through a California […]
April 23, 2016
Nine organisations representing the California horse racing industry have signalled their support for Assemblyman Adam Gray’s Assembly Bill 2863, which seeks to legalise intrastate online poker in California. The state horse racing industry is apparently prepared to stay out of the intrastate online poker market if it is paid a subsidy of up to $60 […]
April 22, 2016
Assemblyman Adam Gray’s California Assembly bill AB2863 – due for consideration at a hearing next Wednesday (see previous reports) – became the centre of attention this week when a late amendment again raised the spectre of the notoriously anti-competitive “bad actor” clause. Tribal opponents of the entry into the local market of Pokerstars have repeatedly […]
April 19, 2016
Hopes for a regulated and licensed online poker industry in California have surged again on the news that Assemblyman Adam Gray’s legalisation bill will be debated before the state Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization next Wednesday (27 April). Gray, as chair of the Committee, has shown remarkable tenacity and patience in trying to obtain agreement […]
April 14, 2016
The wide range of interested parties in the legalisation of online poker in California (see previous reports) will be preparing for the next round of debate on Wednesday April 20, when the California Assembly Governmental Organization (GO) Committee has scheduled a hearing to discuss Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863. Preparing the ground for their views, […]
April 13, 2016
According to Steve Stallings, chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, an amended online poker bill will be heard by California law makers by the end of this month. The bill submitted by California State Assemblyman Adam Gray in February “is set to move ahead,” Stallings told Card Player in an exclusive interview, “with […]