Check it out … with so many individual states hungry for cash, California being the hungriest, that state will definitely be taking a look at the issue until they somehow figure out a way to collect the most duckets from all those poker geeks calling California home.
The arguments themselves are nothing new — for or against — but you will notice a slight shift on the \”Gogogo online gambling FTW!\” side that we\’re all supposed to be a part of …
Here, Patrick Dorinson, spokesperson for the Coalition of California Card Clubs and Tribes, is clearly pushing for the intrastate model, with the California Gambling Control Commission setting the rules. He addresses that critical component so matter-of-factly that any new recruits to the online poker side would hardly know this is different from the federally regulated, interstate model pushed Barney Frank, the PPA, and others … you know, what we\’ve all been supporting for a long time. That one, according to statements in Washington DC congressional debate, looks to rely on regulatory standards set by the Nevada Gaming Control Board … with maybe some input from New Jersey and the Indians.
We always knew the battle for the right to claim poker supremacy between Cali and Nevada was fierce … but now it seems to be hitting a new level of import.
Our good friends at the PPA, you know, weren\’t too happy about how California was looking to do online poker in that state. But might we see a necessary shift in strategy? If cash-desperate California pushes through online gambling within its borders, they will do so with an intrastate set-up — as seen in this debate — and from there it\’s only a matter of time before other states cut-and-paste Cali\’s new taxable online poker framework and follow suit … literally changing the online game for everyone.