September 12, 2016
The Utah television network KUTV has revisited a six-year-old high profile online poker scandal in which bribery allegations against a US senator were made, publishing a jailhouse interview with convicted businessman Jeremy Johnson over the weekend. Our readers will recall that back in 2010 Johnson was a leading figure in a case involving cloaked bank processing […]
September 1, 2016
For the ninth year running the legalisation of online poker has been denied to Californian poker fans. On Wednesday night members of the Legislature worked late in trying to pass last-minute measures before the midnight shutdown for this session, but Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill was not among those presented. Despite a patient effort to […]
August 26, 2016
Earlier this week the Sacramento Bee newspaper published a largely negative op-ed piece on internet poker legalisation titled “Gray’s internet poker bill is a losing hand,” prompting a clearly irritable riposte from California Assemblyman Adam Gray, who has – so far unsuccessfully – invested a significant amount of time in trying to create a consensus […]
August 24, 2016
The apparent withdrawal of California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s online poker legalisation proposal AB 2863 from the Assembly agenda Monday has left the bill in apparent limbo, with no mention so far of its status in Assembly notes and records. Plagued by disagreement over a controversial late amendment inserting a 5-year or more block on operators […]
August 21, 2016
With an end-August Californian Assembly adjournment ever closer, the news broke over the weekend that Assemblyman Adam Gray may be about to pull his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 from Monday’s much anticipated floor debate following intensified opposition to its latest amendments (see previous reports). Going into the weekend there was growing opposition – […]
August 20, 2016
The last-minute addition of a “bad actor” clause that would effectively exclude Pokerstars from Californian licensing for five years (see previous reports) has prompted the coalition of Pokerstars, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and California’s three largest card clubs – Commerce Casino, Hawaiian Gardens Casino and Bicycle […]
August 20, 2016
The Poker Players Alliance, which claims a poker-playing membership of over 1.2 million, 90,000 of whom reside in California, has issued a strong condemnation of the late “bad actor” amendments to California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill seeking to legalise online poker in his state (see previous reports). News that the bill may be presented […]
August 18, 2016
Latest reports in the LA Times on the controversial issue of legalised online poker in California are that the latest amendments to tax and bad actor provisions may have achieved a sufficient consensus to merit sending bill AB 2863 to the Assembly floor for voting – perhaps next Monday. The tax amendment reportedly changes the […]
August 12, 2016
Hopes that California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 online poker legalisation bill would be considered by the Assembly on Thursday after it was pulled from the agenda at the beginning of this week (see previous report) were dashed when Gray again failed to present the measure, citing a lack of support and continuing negotiations on the […]
August 9, 2016
Hopes that California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s online poker legalisation bill AB2863 would make an early appearance on the Assembly floor when the legislature reconvened Monday were dashed when the day passed with no such activity. The bill has been bogged down by disagreements principally about “bad actor” clauses, with the Pechanga-Agua Caliente tribal coalition demanding […]