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Legal Alert: Game Changing Bill on California’s Internet Gaming
In hopes of infusing much-needed revenues into California’s state treasury, Senators Rod Wright and Darrell Steinberg introduced SB 1463 in the California Legislature on Friday, February 24, 2012.  California Online5/16/2013
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BLOG: California Indian Tribes Release Draft of iPoker Bill
(California) -- Eight of California’s Indian tribes have joined together in an effort to legalize online poker for the state. On Wednesday, a copy of the Internet...
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BLOG: California Tribes Release Draft of Online Poker Bill
(California) -- California Tribes Release Draft of Online Poker BillA group of California’s major Indian tribes have joined forces to propose an online poker bill...
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Draft of New California Online Poker Bill Released
(California) -- A new draft bill that seeks to regulate online poker in California was revealed Wednesday. This latest attempt to progress internet poker in The Golden...
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EXPLAINED: Here’s the Gist of the New California Online Poker Bill [Full Bill Attached]
(California) -- Among the points of greater interest are a strict bad actor’s clause and a resistance to interstate or federal player pooling.
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Third Online Poker Bill In California Comes Forward
(California) -- A new online poker bill has been crafted in the state of California, one that would allow well-established card rooms and tribal casinos in the Golden...
5/15/2013
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California Tribal Online Poker Bill Expressly Rules Out Interstate Play
(California) -- A new California online poker bill supported by some of the state’s major Indian tribes has surfaced in draft form. The proposed Internet Poker...
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Harsh Parikh, Gaming Lawyer, Confirms New Cali Bill is in the Works
(California) -- Ever since Pechanga.net editor-in-chief Victor Rocha dropped us a tip about an all-new online gaming bill in California, we have wanted to know more...
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Tribal group circulates draft measure
(California) -- A group of prominent American Indian tribes with casinos has crafted draft legislation to legalize Internet poker. It differs in several areas from a...
5/14/2013
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Victor Rocha: INDIAN COUNTRY ONLINE: Preparing For The iGaming Paradigm
(California) -- Several people have asked why I created Indian Country Online: The 2013 Congress and the simple answer is this: As online gaming gains traction in...
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California Tribes Float Draft For Third Internet Poker Bill [sub req'd]
(California) -- A draft of what is expected to be a third legislative proposal to legalize intrastate Internet poker in California was disclosed Tuesday by a coalition...
5/11/2013
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California Online Poker Tribal Settlements
(California) -- The race for more online poker legislation on American soil has become one of, hurry up and wait, for states that haven’t already jumped on the...
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Sacramento Tribes Working for Online Poker
(California) -- Representatives of Sacramento’s most successful tribes with casinos have met in order to put together a proposal to legalise online poker.
5/8/2013
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California Indian Tribes Warming up to Online Poker
(California) -- As poker legislation has started to go forward in several states, many Native American tribes across the country have long scoffed at the idea. These...
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California Tribes Changing Views on Online Poker
(California) -- California Tribes Changing Views on Online PokerIndian tribes in California have reportedly joined forces and are preparing an online poker proposal that...
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California Tribes Edge Toward Consensus On Online Poker [sub req'd]
(California) -- Consensus among California’s politically powerful American Indian tribes on a bill to legalize intrastate online poker at least partly hinges on...
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California Tribes Willing to Support Online Poker Legalization
(California) -- Some of the top leaders from tribes that run successful casinos in California had a private meeting to create a proposal for the legalization of online...
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Register Now for Indian Country Online: The 2013 Congress
(California) -- RESERVE YOUR HOTEL NOW — ROOM BLOCK GUARANTEED ONLY THROUGH THIS FRIDAY, MAY 10
REGISTER NOW for the inaugural Indian Country Online: The 2013...
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Indian Country Online: The 2013 Congress Will Explore the Future of the Online Industry for Indian Country
(California) -- Indian Country Online: The 2013 Congress will be held at the magnificent Pechanga Resort and Casino on June 3-4, 2013, in Temecula, California. The...
5/7/2013
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Tribes working to craft online poker bill
(California) -- Representatives of some of the state’s most successful tribes with casinos have met privately to hammer out a proposal to legalize online poker,...
5/1/2013
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Is California close to finally passing an online poker bill? Tribal gaming authority Victor Rocha thinks so
(California) -- Editor of Pechanga.net thinks an all-new California online poker bill that is currently being written will have unprecedented tribal support. Interview...
4/29/2013
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NARAYANAN: Top-10 observations from GiGSE
(California) -- The land-based and online gaming worlds converged at the Global iGaming Summit & Expo (GiGse) last week to discuss the future of the online gaming...
4/27/2013
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California legislation often 'sponsored' -- or even written -- by interest groups
(California) -- At first glance, the role interest groups play in crafting laws in California seems easy to spot. Unlike in many states, legislative analyses list "...
4/26/2013
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California Governor Urges Tribal Compromise On Internet Poker [sub. req'd]
(California) -- California Governor Jerry Brown’s senior advisor has urged the state’s tribal gaming operators to hammer out a compromise on Internet poker,...
4/25/2013
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Sports book bill passes through committee
(California) -- The odds are getting better for legalized sports betting in California. Senate Bill 190, introduced in February by state Sen. Roderick Wright, an...
4/24/2013
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State Sen. Roderick Wright to stand trial in July
(California) -- Nearly three years after he was indicted on voter fraud and perjury charges, state Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) is scheduled to stand trial...
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Trial date set for California state Sen. Rod Wright on voter fraud charges
(California) -- South Bay state Sen. Rod Wright will finally get his day in court on eight felony voter-fraud charges - almost three years after they were first filed.
3/13/2013
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California Lawmakers Look at Online Poker
(California) -- For the third time in as many years, Golden State lawmakers are considering bills that would allow online gaming in California. Tribes in the state still...
3/12/2013
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California Dreamin' / An online gaming bill gives rights to tribes, card rooms, racetracks and ADWs
(California) -- This tribal divide over online gaming has been most apparent in California, pitting some of the most important players in Indian gaming against each...
3/10/2013
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California Online Gambling
(California) -- Great news for the state of California as it seems that the state is planning to catch up to other American states in legalizing online gambling and...
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Online Poker Senate Bill Introduced in California
(California) -- The USA has been slowly reintroducing online gambling state by state after the shredding of the industry back in 2006. The need in America for a clear...
3/7/2013
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California Tribes Bristle At Correa Poker Bill, Eye Alternative Proposal [sub req'd]
(California) -- A newly introduced Internet poker bill in California has Indian country abuzz with opposition, but a number of the state’s most politically...
3/1/2013
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DIAZ: Gambling's next frontier
(California) -- I have no moral objection to gambling. I generally avoid casinos purely out of personal calculation: The joy of winning easy dollars does not equal the...
2/28/2013
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California trails other states in legalizing Internet gambling
(California) -- With New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's signature Tuesday, three states have now approved Internet gambling bills -- a concept the California...
2/25/2013
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Another Online Poker Bill Introduced in California
(California) -- In position to be a large player in the US online poker market, the state of California has been presented with yet another path to legalization.
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California to consider intra-state online poker measure
(California) -- California State Senator Jose Luis Correa has introduced legislation that would see the western state legalise intra-state online poker and establish a...
2/9/2013
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California Poker Bill Still Seen As Work In Progress [sub req'd]
(California) -- Revisions to California Senator Roderick Wright’s third draft Intrastate poker bill in as many years apparently do not go far enough to generate...
1/29/2013
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Tribes divided on how online poker will affect their casino operations
(California) -- Mike Brady was taught poker by his 8-year-old nephew. By age 16, the Cathedral City resident had built up $500,000 in play money on PokerStars.com, one...
1/27/2013
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Hitting the jackpot / Once-poor tribes parlay casino revenues into political power
(California) -- Morongo Band of Mission Indians Chairman Robert Martin remembers his first stint leading the tribe in the 1980s. “None of the tribes had anything...
1/7/2013
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Exclusive: Interview With Sen. Roderick Wright, CA Online Poker Bill Sponsor
(California) -- California is the 800 pound gorilla in the room of U.S. online poker regulation. So when a member of the state legislature proposes regulating the...
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Online Poker ‘Belongs to California,’ Senator Wright Says [sub. req'd]
(California) -- Internet poker is an asset that belongs to California taxpayers and any intrastate online wagering scheme will be crafted and solely regulated by the...
1/2/2013
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California Likely To See Competing Online Poker Bills [sub req'd]
(California) -- American Indians will confront state Senator Roderick Wright's third attempt to enact legislation to legalize online poker in California, but this...
12/31/2012
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Wright reintroduces California online poker legislation
(California) -- Proposed legislation that could see California legalise intra-state online poker has been reintroduced after its predecessor failed to gain enough...
12/22/2012
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Wright Re-introduces California Online Poker Bill
(California) -- A bill which has the potential to bring legalized intrastate online poker to the state of California, SB51, was re-introduced by State Senator Roderick...
12/21/2012
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Another round for California Internet gambling bill
(California) -- A California lawmaker has resurrected a long-stalled proposal to legalize Internet poker and other online gambling to bring up to $200 million annually...
12/14/2012
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Pala Chairman Robert Smith Elected California Tribal Business Alliance Chair, Denounces Illegal Internet Sweepstakes Cafés
(California) -- On Tuesday night, the California Tribal Business Alliance (CTBA) board of directors unanimously elected the Honorable Robert Smith, chairman of the Pala...
12/13/2012
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California Poker Bill to be Reintroduced as Soon as Next Week
(California) -- California online poker bill SB 1463 will be reintroduced into the state Senate “probably next week,” pokerfuse has learned. A staff member...
11/2/2012
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BLOG: Online Poker in California May Benefit from COPA Dissolution
(California) -- Last week's announcement that the California Online Poker Association (COPA) had voted to dissolve following the lack of success in securing online poker...
10/29/2012
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COPA Is Dead, But California’s Internet Poker Debate Lives On [sub req'd]
(California) -- The breakup of a coalition of American Indian tribes and card clubs lobbying for the legalization of Internet poker in California may increase tribal...
10/26/2012
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California tribes withdraw from group promoting Internet poker
(California) -- The California Online Poker Association has dissolved after the departure of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, a founding member of the group, and the...
10/25/2012
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All bets off for online poker group
(California) -- Online gambling is no closer to being legal in California than it was two years ago, so the group created to change that is folding. The California...
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California group pushing online poker falls apart
(California) -- An organization of tribes and card rooms formed two years ago to lobby for legal Internet poker in California has disbanded after spending more than a...
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California Online Poker Association Breaks Up Amid Infighting
(California) -- The battle for online poker regulation in California has taken a step back as the organization that was helping to drive legislation has disbanded amid...
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Lack of law spells end to California Online Poker Assoc.
(California) -- After spending two years trying unsuccessfully to legalize online poker, a group that included an Inland casino-owning tribe, has dissolved.
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San Manuel Withdraws from California Tribal Intrastate Consortium
(California) -- Effective October 12, 2012, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has withdrawn from the 29 tribe California Tribal Intrastate Poker Consortium, LLC,...
10/24/2012
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Exclusive: San Manuel to leave COPA [sub req'd]
(California) -- The San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians will announce it is to leave the California Online Poker Association (COPA) with immediate effect eGaming...
8/27/2012
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Tribal Dissent Continues To Hinder California’s Online Poker Proposal
(California) -- California’s online poker bill is likely finished for 2012, as tribes and other gaming interests continue to lack common ground on the issue.
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Tribes try to block legislation linked to former ballot foe
(California) -- A combination of online poker rivalries and long political memories could spell trouble for legislation meant to keep open the card club at Hollywood...
8/21/2012
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Discussions Of California Internet Poker Legislation To Persist Postmortem
(California) -- The tribes couldn’t come close to a consensus. Thus, the votes weren’t there for the bill to move forward. That’s the story of...
8/20/2012
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California Internet Poker Bill Short On Time, Consensus [sub req'd]
(California) -- Although 40 or so special interest groups have spent more than $2m lobbying an Internet poker bill in California this year, consensus among them remains...
8/16/2012
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BLOG: Rich Native-American tribes exempt from American laws don't want legalization of Internet gambling
(California) -- Every year tribal gaming generates billions of dollars in revenue, creates tens of thousands of jobs, and boosts the economies of many Native American...
8/15/2012
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BLOG: Online Poker Bill In California Facing Demise
(California) -- Online Poker Bill California Facing DemiseWith a half-month left in California’s legislative session, the proposed online poker bill may land in...
8/13/2012
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Online poker legislation faces tough odds before deadline
(California) -- Divisions among tribes with successful casinos have stacked the odds against legislation to legalize and license online poker in California, with less...
8/7/2012
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Coalition of California tribes gearing up for online poker fight
(California) -- A coalition of California Indian tribes is asking the Legislature not to rush an Internet gambling bill through in the final weeks of session.
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Darrell Steinberg bets against online poker bill
(California) -- Will a bill to legalize online poker make it out of the final weeks of session? Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is willing to make this bet:
8/6/2012
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California Senator Says Key Tribal Votes Could Break Poker Deadlock [sub req'd]
(California) -- As a bill-passage deadline approaches in California, the state legislature’s chief Internet gambling proponent said support from just two major...
7/27/2012
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California Coalition, Cantor Gaming Team Up
(California) -- Cantor Gaming and a California horse racing industry coalition announced July 27 that they are teaming up to provide an intrastate Internet poker...
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Cantor Gaming has deal with Horse Racing United for online poker
(California) -- Cantor Gaming has reached an agreement with Horse Racing United to supply the technology and supporting infrastructure to offer online poker should the...
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Cantor Gaming Selected By California's Horse Racing United To Provide Technological And Infrastructure Expertise To Support Online Poker Platform
(California) -- Cantor Gaming® and Horse Racing United today announced they have entered into an exclusive provisional agreement under which Cantor Gaming, subject...
7/15/2012
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California Survey Finds Voters For Sports Betting, Split Over Online Poker
(California) -- In an odd dichotomy that seems to not only defy logic but also seems to be rampant, a survey of voters in California have different opinions on two forms...
7/14/2012
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Sports betting could soon be legal in California
(California) -- You may soon be able to place bets on your favorite sports teams in California. A State Senate bill to legalize sports betting is moving through the...
7/13/2012
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BLOG: California voters favor legalizing sports betting, poll finds
(California) -- A majority of California voters support the move toward legalizing sports betting in the state, while less than half support government-sanctioned...
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Legalize sports betting for the tax payoff?
(California) -- A bad economy can change political odds in so many ways. This might be another example: A new poll shows that a big majority of Californians are in favor...
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Legalize sports betting in California? Voters say yes, Field Poll finds
(California) -- Californians overwhelmingly want the right to gamble on sports events in their state, too, judging from Field Poll results released Thursday.
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Poll: Californians Support Legalizing Sports Gambling To Help Budget
(California) -- Why limit gambling on sports to the Vegas casinos when our state could make millions in taxes from it? That’s the current thinking in New Jersey,...
6/24/2012
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California Battling Tribes to Legalise Online Poker
(California) -- Online Poker in America has always been popular despite its illegality and at last some states are trying to make progress on legislation to legalise the...
6/19/2012
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LA TIMES: California's online poker problem
(California) -- Despite federal and state bans on online poker, as many as 1 million Californians spend a total of about $300 million annually playing the game —...
6/16/2012
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Online Gambling Regulation News from California and Delaware
(California) -- This week there was news from two US states on the progress of online gambling regulation. The news from California was negative, whereas the news from...
6/13/2012
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Online gambling bill folds before hearing
(California) -- Proponents of legalizing online poker will have to fold their hands and wait for another deal. The online gambling bill, Senate Bill 1463, was supposed...
6/12/2012
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California Internet poker bill pulled from Senate committee
(California) -- Sen. Rod Wright folded on today's round of Internet poker debate under the dome, pulling his legalization legislation from a committee agenda before...
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State Sen. Wright pulls online gaming bill at first hearing
(California) -- Deep differences among members of the state’s politically powerful gaming industry, particularly tribes with casinos, have once again stalled...
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State Senate panel to consider online poker bill
(California) -- Almost four months after it was introduced, legislation to license online gambling in California will finally get its first airing. Influential members...
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Tribal Opposition Stalls California Online Poker Bill [sub req'd]
(California) -- Legislation to legalize online poker was pulled by its sponsor from a California Senate committee hearing Tuesday in the face of almost unanimous...
6/11/2012
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California online gambling bill up for debate
(California) -- It will be anything but poker faces Tuesday as the Internet gambling bill gets debated in the California Senate. The online gambling bill, Senate Bill...
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The California Online Poker Association releases poll before first hearing
(California) -- The day before a Senate hearing on a bill to license online gaming in California, a coalition of card rooms and American Indian tribes has released a...
6/6/2012
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Online Poker Bill In California Amended
(California) -- Online Poker Bill California AmendedCalifornia lawmakers will re-introduce an amended online poker bill before a Senate committee on June 12 that has...
6/5/2012
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California Committee To Take Up Amended, Poker-Only Bill [sub req'd]
(California) -- Internet gambling legislation in California, the largest prospective online gaming market in America, has been significantly amended ahead of a Senate...
6/1/2012
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THE FIGHT: Changes in Illinois and More Movement in California
(California) -- Speaking of amendments, a newly revised version the California Internet gambling bill, SB1463, will be released in the coming days, according to senior...
5/31/2012
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COLUMN: Will Broke California Legalize Online Poker or Sports Betting?
(California) -- California is broke and struggling to pay its bills on time. Many of its politicians would rather “kick the can down the road” than risk...
5/21/2012
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EDITORIAL: Jackpot lure
(California) -- Gambling will not rescue the state’s budget. The promise of additional state revenue from legalizing online poker is a lure, not a justification....
5/19/2012
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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
California State Senate
State Capitol, Room
Sacramento, CA 95814...
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...
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