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BLOG: California to Legalize Online Poker Soon
The US government passed a law prohibiting online gambling in the country a few years ago. However, it was only in the middle of 2011 that the legalization issue came to the forefront. This was when tree prominent poker rooms were shut down by the Department of Justice in April 2011 for carrying out illegal operations.  California Online5/19/2012
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California Gaming Regulator: Nevada Online Poker Industry 'Heavily Dependent on Prayer'
(Nevada) -- One of California’s top gaming regulators said Friday that the success of Nevada’s upcoming intrastate online poker industry is “heavily...
5/15/2012
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California could cash in on legalized online poker
(California) -- State Senate President Darrell Steinberg is pushing a bill that would legalize online poker in California to help the cash-strapped state. If SB1463...
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Casino Operators Offer Solution to State Budget Woes
(California) -- As Governor Jerry Brown faces a ballooning state budget deficit, casino operators are offering a cut of the action if state officials will legalize...
5/14/2012
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California offered piece of the action from Internet poker
(California) -- As state leaders sweat over another possible round of cuts from schools and social services, casino operators are offering officials a cut of the action...
5/11/2012
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United Auburn Indian tribe makes agreement with online gaming company
(California) -- The United Auburn Indian Community, owners of Thunder Valley Casino, entered into a 10-year agreement with London-based Bwin.party Digital Entertainment...
5/9/2012
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bwin.party Partners with California Tribe for Future Online Poker Licensing
(California) -- Online gaming company bwin.party is readying itself to enter the California online poker market should the game become legalized in the state.
5/8/2012
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Bwin.party agrees online poker deal with native American tribe in California
(California) -- The deal means bwin.party, the world's largest listed online gaming company, will provide online poker services in California with the United Auburn...
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Bwin.Party Signs Lucrative Californian Poker Deal
(California) -- Bwin.Party Digital's efforts to edge closer to the US gambling market have paid off with the announcement that the group has signed a multi year deal...
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Bwin.party signs online poker deal in California
(California) -- Bwin.party has signed a deal with a Native American tribe that operates gambling in the US state of California. The United Auburn Indian Community, which...
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Bwin.party’s deal leaves it poised for US online poker
(California) -- Online gaming company Bwin.party has signed a deal with a native American tribe to offer online poker services in California ahead of an expected...
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United Auburn Indian Community and Bwin.party Ink Online Poker Deal
(California) -- The United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) recently entered into a ten-year agreement with Bwin.party digital, the world’s largest listed online...
5/7/2012
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bwin prepares for US gambling law change
(California) -- bwin prepares for US gambling law change LONDON (SHARECAST) - Online gambling firm bwin.party has struck an agreement with casino operators in California...
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bwin.party and United Auburn Indian Community Enter Online Poker Agreement
(California) -- bwin.party - bwin.party digital entertainment plc ('bwin.party' or the 'Company') and the United Auburn Indian Community ('UAIC...
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Bwin.Party Bags California Poker Partner [sub req'd]
(California) -- Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment has reached a deal to supply the United Auburn Indian Community, one of California’s leading tribal casino...
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Bwin.party signs California online poker deal
(California) -- Bwin.party digital, the world's largest listed online gaming company, said it had prepared the ground for a possible relaxation of U.S. internet...
5/6/2012
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Poker Splits Tribes [Last Item]
(California) -- An influential tribal group that includes several Inland Southern California members recently poured some cold water on state Senate legislation that...
5/1/2012
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BLOG: Tribal Group Remains Opposed to California Online Poker Bill
(California) -- SB 1463, an online gambling bill proposed by State Senator Rod Wright, (D-Los Angeles), and Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, (D-Sacramento...
4/27/2012
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California Internet Gambling Bill ‘DOA’, Say Tribes [reg req'd]
(California) -- Prospects for Internet poker in America’s wealthiest state have again receded as gaming tribes turn their fire on new legislation that they contend...
4/26/2012
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TASIN: SB 1463 – Oppose Unless Amended
(California) -- Dear President Pro Tempore Steinberg and Senator Wright:
The Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations (TASIN), an intergovernmental association of...
4/24/2012
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California sports-betting bill advanced by Senate panel
(California) -- Gamblers may one day be able to legally bet on Lakers and Dodgers games in California under a measure that moved forward Tuesday in the Legislature.
4/14/2012
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Editorial: Online gambling bill is just another bad bet
(California) -- Some bad ideas just won't go away. Case in point: a revived law to allow online gambling in California. This time around, all the big players -...
4/10/2012
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BLOG: California Betting On Online Poker Revenue, Senate Bill 1463
(California) -- According to news reports coming in from California this week, an estimated 2 million Californians wager $13 billion a year on online poker sites and now...
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California Lawmakers Mull Online Poker Legalization, Again
(California) -- State Sen. Lou Correa (D-Orange Co.) is sponsoring a bill to legalize online poker for California citizens. Supporters claim that two million Golden...
4/9/2012
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Legalized online gambling sought in Calif. bill
(California) -- A California bill that seeks to raise money by legalizing Internet gambling has the big players in the state's betting industry - and some fresh...
4/6/2012
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CA lawmakers consider legalizing Internet poker
(California) -- It's estimated more than 2 million Californians wager $13 billion a year on online poker sites. Now, some lawmakers want in on the action, proposing...
4/2/2012
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Consensus Still Elusive In California Internet Gambling Debate [sub req'd]
(California) -- In California, a new Internet gambling bill meant to engender consensus between members of the state’s highly factionalized Indian gaming industry...
3/31/2012
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LETTER: Gambling legislation is needed now
(California) -- Online poker isn’t a faraway proposition, it’s here now and the only question is whether California will act to protect consumer safety,...
3/28/2012
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California Online Poker Bill Headed for Battle
(California) -- There are still some “major issues” with a bill in California to legalize Internet gambling, a source close to the legislation told Card...
3/25/2012
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Column: Worth a gamble? Legislation is losing bet for state
(California) -- Why would the state Legislature pass a bill that would increase the rate of crime, unemployment, welfare, homelessness, bankruptcies and suicide? The...
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Major California Newspaper Op-Ed Comes Out Against Online Poker
(California) -- A popular California newspaper has published an op-ed piece that comes out against any proposals by the state’s political or business factions to...
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OP/ED: Who will control California gambling?
(California) -- Sometimes the intermingling of art and reality is just plain spooky. In Mid-March, two of the most important figures in California's gambling picture...
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WRIGHT: Worth a gamble? Online gaming already happening
(California) -- Most opponents to online gaming in California approach the debate as if it is a question of whether or not there will be online gaming in the state. But...
3/14/2012
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The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Opposes SB 1463
(California) -- March 6, 2012
Speaker pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg
The Honorable Roderick D. Wright
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3/13/2012
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US I-Gaming Policy Brief : State/Territory I-Gaming Legislation/Regulatory Efforts
(California) -- SB 1463, sponsored by Senators Wright and Steinberg, would provide for the licensure, regulation and taxation of Internet gambling, with licensees...
3/9/2012
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California Indian Tribes Show Concerns Over Internet Gambling Bill
(California) -- Gambling revenue at American Indian casinos was $26.7 billion in 2010, according to industry publication Casino City. That was up slightly from $26.4...
3/7/2012
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Two pending state bills toss the dice
(California) -- Someday in the near future, a California resident might be able to play a few hands of poker on the Internet and then, after a short drive, bet the...
3/3/2012
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Legal Alert: Game Changing Bill on California’s Internet Gaming
(California) -- In hopes of infusing much-needed revenues into California’s state treasury, Senators Rod Wright and Darrell Steinberg introduced SB 1463 in the...
2/29/2012
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‘Super’ Majority Required For California Internet Poker Bill [sub req'd]
(California) -- It will take a two-thirds majority in both chambers of the California legislature to pass an Internet poker bill introduced last week by Senate President...
2/28/2012
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California Senate President Introduces Internet Poker Bill [sub req'd]
(California) -- California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg is leading efforts to pass an Internet poker bill which would require established gaming...
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California Senators Introduce Online Poker Bill
(California) -- On February 24, California Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) introduced a bill to allow intrastate online...
2/27/2012
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California Lawmakers Introduce Online Gaming Bill
(California) -- On Friday, California Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) introduced a bill that would allow online poker to be...
2/26/2012
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California Looks to Online Poker for Financial Help
(California) -- Last Friday, a new online poker campaign was launched in California. The Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and Public-Private Partnership Act of 2012...
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California Taking Another Look at Online Poker
(California) -- California is ready to take another crack at online gaming. On Friday, a pair of lawmakers introduced The Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and...
2/24/2012
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California Senate leader co-sponsors Internet gambling bill
(California) -- A proposal to allow Californians to gamble in games, including poker, on state-sanctioned Internet sites gained new momentum when state Senate leader...
2/20/2012
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California Awaits New Internet Gambling Bill [sub req'd]
(California) -- A new Internet gambling bill in California will face an uphill battle and a short, six-month window to be passed into law this year. New legislation,...
2/6/2012
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State considers legalizing online gambling to fatten coffers
(California) -- Illegal online gambling is an estimated $30-billion dollar business worldwide. Now, lawmakers in cash-strapped Calif. want to legalize games, such as...
1/20/2012
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Rep. Dennis Cardoza enters online gambling fray in Sacramento
(California) -- Add Rep. Dennis Cardoza to the long list of individuals and interests weighing in on the online gambling legislation discussions going on under the dome.
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Rep. Dennis Cardoza's gaming talks raise questions
(Washington D.C.) -- Congress was in session Wednesday, with officials sparring over the federal debt ceiling and President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL...
1/14/2012
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Another View: We're getting fleeced – but not by gambling
(California) -- Martin Owens Jr., a California attorney specializing in the law of Internet and interactive gaming, is responding to the Jan. 8 editorial "Should we...
1/10/2012
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California’s Wright Raises Alarm On Internet Gambling
(California) -- State and tribal governments, including in California, need to move quickly to secure their regulatory role and revenue slice of the online gambling...
1/8/2012
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Editorial: Should we place bets on online gambling?
(California) -- California legislators have debated the merits of Internet gambling for three years now. Despite tons of money spent on lobbying, campaign contributions...
1/6/2012
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Internet poker not likely a jackpot for state, Gov. Jerry Brown says
(California) -- Gov. Jerry Brown is not betting that a proposal to legalize Internet poker in California will get the state out of its budget mess. A group of casino...
1/4/2012
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For online gaming, Obama administration leaves uncertainty in California
(California) -- Around the nation, a recent U.S. Department of Justice memo is viewed as giving a green light for the future of online gambling. But in California, many...
1/3/2012
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California’s Online Proponents Eye 2012 Jackpot [sub req'd]
(California) -- A coalition of Indian tribes and card rooms is hopeful the landmark Wire Act ruling by the Department of Justice will prompt the California legislature...
1/2/2012
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Legislative debate to revolve around fiscal crisis
(California) -- California's budget deficit appears more manageable than in past years, but the state's ongoing fiscal crisis will continue to dominate debate...
12/31/2011
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California Legislature to Possibly Approve Intrastate Internet Poker
(California) -- While California is one of the more liberal states, with its legalization of medical marijuana use, it would seem typical for it to be one of the first...
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Californians to Watch: Methodist minister takes on Internet gambling
(California) -- Indian tribes, racetrack owners, card room operators – and the army of lobbyists they've hired to help them make more money – will keep...
12/28/2011
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BLOG: California to Legalize Online Poker Soon
(California) -- The US government passed a law prohibiting online gambling in the country a few years ago. However, it was only in the middle of 2011 that the...
12/20/2011
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Feds silent on California’s online gaming push, for now
(California) -- Last summer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The unlikely pair...
11/28/2011
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Legalization effort sparks battle for influence
(California) -- Since January, the Poker Players Alliance has spent more than $1.1million to dispatch a team of 20 lobbyists to Capitol Hill to build support for federal...
11/17/2011
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BLOG: Indian Tribes and Card Rooms in California Working Together for Online Poker
(California) -- California’s Indian tribes that currently operate casinos in the state and non-tribal poker rooms have joined together in anticipation of legalized...
11/15/2011
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Anti-gambling groups outgunned in Capitol debate
(California) -- Legalizing some form of Internet gambling in California depends on prominent gaming tribes, the horse-racing industry, key lawmakers and other moneyed...
11/14/2011
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BLOG: Card Rooms And Indian Casinos Prep For The Advent Of Online Poker
(California) -- For years, California’s card rooms have battled it out with Indian casinos for a share of the state’s lucrative gambling business. Card rooms...
10/17/2011
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Tribes poised for online gaming
(California) -- Casinos and tribes have poked around at free poker play on the Internet for years. The Cabazon Band of Mission Indians near Indio added a “play...
10/12/2011
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California Tribes Launch Online Poker Rooms
(California) -- The California Online Poker Association, a coalition of card rooms in the sunshine state led by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, recently launched...
10/11/2011
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California coalition of tribes unveil new poker site -- CalShark.com
(California) -- A California coalition of tribes and card rooms that wants to legalize online gambling in the state launched a play-free Internet poker site on Monday.
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Online poker? First one’s free
(California) -- Political fighting in California over the issue of online gaming has veered from the moral path to the road to profits. Faced with looming federal...
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Betting Site: California voters in favour of legalised online poker
(California) -- Online-pokerBetting site services learned that a poll that was conducted in September showed that voters in California are in favour of legalising online...
10/10/2011
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An online poker group unveils free site
(California) -- Legislation to legalize online poker has yet to pass in Sacramento or Washington, but a consortium of gaming tribes and card clubs with Inland ties...
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CalShark.com Launch Raises the Stakes for Online Poker
(California) -- CalShark.com, a new, free-play online poker site run by California’s legal gaming experts, officially launched today, offering poker players around...
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COPA deals state a play online poker free card
(California) -- A California coalition of tribes and card rooms that is angling to legalize online gambling in the state on Monday launched a play-free Internet poker...
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Next play in bid to make online gambling legal: Free poker sites
(California) -- Groups that want California to make Internet poker legal are upping the ante in their efforts to convince lawmakers that online gambling is a good idea:...
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Tribe-backed group starts free site
(California) -- A consortium of gaming tribes and card clubs trying to get state lawmakers to legalize online poker in California has invited people to start playing...
9/25/2011
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Majority of Californians support legal online poker, poll finds
(California) -- A majority of California voters – especially those under age 40 – would like to see the state tax Internet poker and make the game legal,...
9/24/2011
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Field Poll: Survey finds support for online poker
(California) -- A slim majority of California voters wants to legalize online poker if it means more revenue for the state, a new survey shows. The Field Poll released...
9/19/2011
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Could This be the Beginning of Pay-for-Play Online Poker for the USA?
(California) -- One of the California Tribes not to join COPA – the California Online Poker Association, is the Barona Band of Mission Indians.
9/18/2011
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U.S. Digital Gaming and Los Angeles Business Journal Join Together to Present Forum on the Impact of Legal Online Gambling in California and Beyond
(California) -- U.S. Digital Gaming, a leading U.S.-based online gaming company and the Los Angeles Business Journal today announced that they will partner together to...
9/12/2011
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California’s Congressmen Put On Alert For Federal Poker Bill [sub' req']
(California) -- Wary of potential action on a federal Internet gaming bill, the California legislature has passed a resolution asserting the state’s right to...
8/29/2011
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OP/ED: Internet gaming a desperate act
(California) -- Our view: The state is desperate for money, but legalizing Internet gambling is not the answer. We doubt it could be effectively regulated. California...
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ROSE: California’s Unnecessary Delay
(California) -- On August 22, 2011, California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg sent a letter announcing that the bills to legalize intra-state Internet...
8/27/2011
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Editorial: Internet gambling is a bad bet to close California budget gap
(California) -- California Senate leader Darrell Steinberg wants to delay any action on Internet gambling until 2012. A better decision would be for him and the...
8/26/2011
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EDITORIAL: Poker restraint
(California) -- Postponing a discussion of Internet gambling is a smart bet for California. The hectic last days of a legislative session offer a poor time to address...
8/24/2011
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California Intrastate Online Poker on Hold Until 2012
(California) -- Despite widespread support, it appears that intrastate online poker will not be legalized and regulated in California this year. It still seems, however...
8/23/2011
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California egaming delayed until 2012
(California) -- California Senate President Darrell Steinberg has publicly backed intrastate egaming in California, but has delayed legislative action until 2012 due to...
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California Online Poker Bills Likely Dead for 2011
(California) -- California legislators have recently had to consider two different bills that would legalize online poker – and in one case, possibly other online...
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Online poker bills tabled until 2012 California Assembly session
(California) -- California state Sen. Darrell Steinberg, the Senate's president pro tem, on Monday sent word that Internet gambling legislation isn't going to go...
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Push for legal online poker seems dead in California
(California) -- An effort to legalize and regulate Internet poker in California appears dead. According to the Oakland Tribune, California State Senate President Pro Tem...
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Senate leader says online gaming done until 2012
(California) -- The Senate will not consider any online gambling legislation until 2012, the upper house's top Democrat said Monday, in a setback to two Inland Southern...
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Steinberg tells online poker backers it’s time to hold 'em
(California) -- With just more than two weeks left until the Legislature is done for the session, Darrell Steinberg, president pro tem of the California Senate, said...
8/22/2011
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California Intrastate Poker Pushed Into 2012
(California) -- The California Senate will not act on online gambling legislation this year, although lawmakers do plan to move a bill as soon as January 2012, the...
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California's Internet Poker Debate Heats Up
(California) -- The Internet poker debate in the state of California has intensified in August, as state lawmakers are faced with less than a month before the deadline...
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Effort to legalize online poker in California dead for now
(California) -- California's contentious effort to legalize and regulate online poker has been pronounced dead for this year by state Senate President Pro Tem...
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Legal Internet poker in California on hold until at least 2012
(California) -- The top Democrat in the state Senate is shelving talks to legalize Internet poker in California this year, saying that although the issue “has...
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Steinberg: California Internet gambling bills won't move this year
(California) -- Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Monday that he supports legalizing Internet gambling in California but does not want any legislative...
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Tribes Split Over California Bid to Regulate, Tax Online Poker
(California) -- Some Native American tribes and card rooms are going all-in on a measure that would let them set up poker websites. But many other tribes say they're...
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Wait 'Til Next Year for Online Poker
(California) -- The high-stakes push to create online gaming sites in California won’t be resolved in the next couple of weeks, as its supporters had hoped. The...
8/21/2011
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Rep. Issa strikes back and Assemblyman Cook ponders options
(California) -- As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Inland Rep. Darrell Issa has made plenty of headlines this year by targeting government programs and Obama...
8/19/2011
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SACBEE: Internet gambling bills are a losing bet
(California) -- Whether or not they are in support or opposition, lawmakers are unlikely to take decisive action until the last possible moment on two bills to legalize...
8/18/2011
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Can California's Future Be Found in an Online Poker Hand?
(California) -- If we all just anted up online, it could save the state’s budget crisis. That’s the opinion of a coalition of tribes and gaming industry...
8/17/2011
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American Indian tribes battle over online poker
(California) -- Once again, it’s shaping up to be a case of tribe vs. tribe in the latest effort to encourage politicians to legalize online poker in California.
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OP/ED: Poker rush? No
(California) -- The push to legalize Internet gambling in California is a special-interest debate, with no public interest at stake. Legislators should insist that the...
8/16/2011
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California Assembly To Assess Internet Gaming
(California) -- The lower house of the California legislature will hold a committee hearing on Internet gaming next week, but the clock is ticking toward a deadline for...
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Internet poker backers launch TV ads; opposing tribes fight back
(California) -- The big-money debate over legalizing Internet gambling in California is heating up as the Legislature begins its final month of business for the year.
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Internet poker battle waged in Sacramento
(California) -- A group of casino operators has taken to radio and television with ads urging state lawmakers to legalize Internet poker in California, prompting...
8/15/2011
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Inland bills in play in final weeks
(California) -- Bills to determine whether California blocks a Temecula-area quarry, licenses online gambling, or restores budget cuts to cities will be among the...
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Legal Change Lifts California Lottery
(California) -- The end to long-standing payout restrictions has boosted the California Lottery and, according to online gambling advocate Senator Rod Wright, underlined...
8/11/2011
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Assembly's Washington lobbyist worrying some gambling tribes
(California) -- The Assembly's new contract with Washington, D.C., lobby firm Pace LLP is raising hackles among some people involved in California's debate over...
7/30/2011
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Bill to allow online gambling sites in California pits tribe against tribe
(California) -- A bill to allow California businesses to operate online poker gambling has made for strange bedfellows and split traditional alliances as some Indian...
7/29/2011
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Viewpoints: Online gambling debate is ready to rumble
(California) -- On April 18, 1906, a high-magnitude trembling of the inner earth triggered the great San Francisco earthquake and fires. It was a huge natural disaster...
7/15/2011
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September Deadline Looms For Californian Poker Bills
(California) -- While a draft Internet gambling bill that would unite quarreling Indian tribes in California is inching closer to realization, political insiders in...
7/14/2011
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Tribal Group Delays Legalization Of Online Gambling in California?
(California) -- While poker players in the state of California are pushing for online gambling regulations together with the support of the California Online Poker...
7/13/2011
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California Racing Execs Address Online Gaming
(California) -- As California eyes potential revenue from Internet gaming, horse racing executives made it clear to a state senate committee in Sacramento July 12 they...
7/12/2011
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Bad Bet? Tribal Business Alliance Opposes Bill To Legalize Internet Poker
(California) -- The stakes are high. SB 40, the Gambling Control Act introduced by Senator Lou Correa of Orange County, seeks to legalize intrastate Internet poker while...
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BLOG: Competing Online Gambling Bills Bid for Senate Support
(California) -- The California Senate is revisiting the issue of online gambling as it seeks additional sources of revenue to supplement budgetary shortfalls.
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California Internet Gaming Bills Face Senate Committee
(California) -- Opposing online poker bills face the Senate Government Organization Committee on July 12, reported Capitol Weekly. The hearing is informational, and...
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California Tribes Urge Caution On Online Poker Bills
(California) -- Disagreement among California’s politically powerful Indian tribes over online gaming regulation continues to intensify, according to testimony...
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Correa to Present Online Poker Bill to Senate Committee
(California) -- Sen. Lou Correa will be discussing Senate Bill 40 and its $250 million in new revenue to California at a Senate Governmental Organization Committee...
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Lawmakers Urge Online Gaming For State / Agua Caliente Tribe Speaks Against Two Measures
(California) -- The California Online Poker Association on Tuesday backed a state Senate bill to legalize Internet poker, saying California needs to act quickly or it...
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Online poker in California being pushed
(California) -- Trying to get the jump on federal regulations being considered, California lawmaker Lou Correa, an Orange County Democrat, presented Senate Bill 40 to...
7/7/2011
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Correa Amends SB 40 to Include $250 Million in Upfront Payments to California
(California) -- Sen. Lou Correa (D-Orange County) has amended Senate Bill 40 to generate $250 million in new revenue for California through upfront payments from online...
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Key online poker bill gets heavily amended
(California) -- Amid parliamentary maneuvering over one of the most important issues of the year, online poker, dueling bills face a Senate committee showdown next week...
6/21/2011
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California Senate Seeks Consensus On Online Gaming Bills [sub' req']
(California) -- A California Senate committee hearing next month will determine whether there is sufficient support to move an intrastate online gambling bill forward...
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COPA Coup For SciPlay In California
(California) -- A joint venture between PlaytechPortfolio info about Playtech and Scientific Games has inked an alliance with the California Online Poker Association (...
6/20/2011
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Online gaming illegal, but California poker group presses forward
(California) -- While online gambling is still illegal in California, the California Online Poker Association, a coalition backed by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians...
5/19/2011
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California Can Cash In On Poker Indictment, Senator Says [sub req'd]
(California) -- The Golden State could bring in 50 percent more revenue through regulated online poker due to the DoJ-enforced absence of leading offshore competition,...
5/11/2011
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Online Poker Bill On The Ropes In California
(California) -- One of California’s two online poker bills has died in session, but there is a slim chance the unpopular measure could be resuscitated before the...
5/8/2011
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Another View: California should seize chance to legalize Internet gambling
(California) -- Re "Bad time to leap into online poker" (Editorial, April 24): The Bee's editorial board said that the legalization of the Internet...
4/30/2011
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HILTZIK: Federal crackdown on Internet poker looks like a relic from the past
(California) -- By its nature, gambling is an uncertain proposition for the player. But here's a bet you can't lose: If a U.S. gambling regulation is on the...
4/27/2011
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Head to Head: Should California legalize Internet poker and other types of gambling?
(California) -- THE ISSUE: Two competing bills in the Legislature would legalize online poker games for Californians. Meantime, Rep. John Campbell, R-Irvine, has...
4/24/2011
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Lawmakers, industry officials look to legalize online poker
(California) -- For the addicted, there's nothing like a good game of online poker - just ask Andra Verstraete. "I play Texas hold 'em and it's really a game of skill,"...
4/20/2011
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GiGSE: With Federal bill back on the table, efforts to regulate internet poker in California are set to intensify
(California) -- Despite the belief that Federal legislation of internet gaming is unlikely in the Congress dominated by the Republicans, it was a Republican Congressman...
4/8/2011
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BLOG: Sen. Correa Returns Favor to Indian Tribe looking For Leg Up in Online Gambling
(California) -- According to Malcolm Maclachlan at Capitol Weekly, California State Sen. Lou Correa has added an amendment favorable to the Morongo Band of Mission...
4/7/2011
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California Internet Poker Bill SB40 Amended
(California) -- Recently reported by the Capital Weekly a newspaper of California Government and Politics there have been amendments made to the online poker bill SB 40...
4/6/2011
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Correa ups the ante with SB 40 amendments [3rd Item]
(California) -- Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, has added amendments to his online poker bill, SB 40, that would increase the number of sanctioned website hubs from three...
4/3/2011
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Dan Morain: Backers raise ante with online plans
(California) -- California voters long ago unleashed the gambling genie, approving the lottery in 1984 and Indian casinos in 2000. But get ready for more. In time, all...
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Internet poker: Don't need it, can't afford it
(California) -- It is hard to imagine any form of gambling being more available or accessible than Internet poker – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in your home, at...
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The Conversation: Legalized online gambling would deal California a winning hand
(California) -- In the time it takes you to read this sentence, several hundred thousand people in the United States will have played a hand of poker. They are not...
3/27/2011
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Editorial: Tax online gambling
(California) -- With technology constantly evolving, lawmakers everywhere have their hands full in trying to keep up with legal uses of new gadgets and other inventions.
3/17/2011
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OP/ED: Sanctioning online poker is a bad bet for California
(California) -- California is proud to be the nation's trailblazer. On so many issues - from environmental activism to food safety to technological advances - we...
3/13/2011
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Lawmakers bet that California's ready for state-sanctioned online poker
(California) -- Every smart phone, laptop and personal computer in California would become a state-sanctioned online poker parlor under fiercely contested legislation to...
3/8/2011
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Herdt: A pair of options for legal online poker
(California) -- The game may be called "Texas Hold 'Em," but it is no less Californian than surfing. Poker-playing was a staple of the Gold Rush, and...
3/7/2011
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Tribal chairman focuses on education
(California) -- James Ramos is a busy man these days. He is in his second two-year term as chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, leading the tribe as it...
3/2/2011
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PokerStars Withdraws Sponsorship of NAPT Los Angeles
(California) -- In breaking news from California, the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) has pulled its branding from this weekend’s event at the Bicycle...
3/1/2011
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Proposed Bills Would Make Online Poker Legal
(California) -- An online gamble that could raise hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the state is one step closer to reality. For the first time, some...
2/28/2011
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California online poker supporters watching NJ decision
(California) -- Supporters of legalizing online poker in California hope to gain some momentum if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has until Thursday to act, decides...
2/26/2011
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Indians say yes on Internet gambling
(California) -- The California Nations Indian Gaming Association on Friday released its vote count on Senate Bill 40, one of two Internet gambling bills its tribal...
2/25/2011
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CORREA: Regulate online poker, keep our jobs and revenue here, help balance the state budget
(California) -- During his inaugural address, Gov. Jerry Brown called on elected officials to tackle our state’s challenges, not as Democrats or Republicans, but...
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Online gambling could be California revenue source
(California) -- While Californians voted last year not to tax and legalize marijuana to help solve the state's financial problems, two Democratic state senators and...
2/24/2011
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Californians Supportive of Regulating Online Poker
(California) -- This week the California Nations Indian Gaming Association (CNIGA), the largest of its kind in the state, announced its support of Senate Bill 40, which...
2/23/2011
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BLOG: A solution for CA's budget problems: Taxing online poker
(California) -- While Guv Brown and the Legislature look under the couch cushions for loose change to plug California's $25 billion budget gap, here's an idea to...
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Internet gambling bill wins support from major Indian group
(California) -- One of two competing bills to legalize Internet gambling in California has won support from a major Indian association representing more than two dozen...
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