Massachusetts Gambling Regulator Says Bill Could Create Regulation For Online PokerState Gaming Commission Might Support 'Omnibus' Bill |
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With the daily fantasy sports industry on the minds of a lot of gambling regulators across the country, the state of Massachusetts, home to Boston-based DraftKings, is considering regulations for the booming industry. It could be good news for poker players.
Because both are considered forms of online gaming, there is word in the Bay State that legislation could forward that would regulate both. According to the Boston Business Journal, Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby said this month that the state might have good use for an “omnibus regulatory bill.”
“Would it make sense for the Legislature to try to craft an omnibus regulatory bill for all of these new electronic gaming technologies – because there’s so many of them?” Crosby asked reporters. “If they could craft a bill, which incorporated regulatory priorities, fundamental values, whatever, that could be applied to all of these games—eSports, [daily fantasy sports], online poker, whatever all the new ones are—maybe then they could give it to some agency to implement, and the agency does the grunt work every six months making it apply to whatever the new technology is.”
A separate measure on the table in Massachusetts would allow gambling facilities in the state to one day offer their casino games on the Internet. The state currently only as a brick-and-mortar slots casino, as the Las Vegas-style casinos are still years away. The 2011 law to authorize the casinos came during a casino arms race in the Northeast. States such as Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Maryland are also trying to put casinos near me.
Massachussetts began reviewing the DFS industry in September.
In 2014, the state’s lottery indicated that it had interest in offering online casino games.
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