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The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has announced plans to launch an online poker site that will be available to players overseas as well as in the three U.S. states were online gambling is regulated. The tribe currently has two brick-and-mortar casinos located within Oklahoma.
According to a report from NewsOK.com, the tribe is seeking to run the games through pokertribe.com, thanks to an arbitrator’s ruling in November that said the poker site wouldn’t violate its gaming compact with Oklahoma. Tribal gaming is regulated by the federal government, and there’s no issue with federal law either. The Iowa Tribe wants to launch sometime in 2016.
The arbitrator’s ruling isn’t the final word on the matter. The tribe asked a U.S. District Court Judge in Oklahoma City late last month to certify the ruling. However, Oklahoma’s governor reportedly is already anticipating the site to come to fruition.
Under the compact with Oklahoma, the tribe will pay a portion of Internet poker revenue to the state if/when it launches the site. The tribe plans to eventually roll out other casino games.
According to the report, Florida software company Universal Entertainment Group will be providing the back-end technology for pokertribe.com.
Two other tribes in Oklahoma—the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes—had previously been planning to launch pokertribes.com, but those efforts ended in 2014 thanks to the federal government objecting to the revenue sharing deal.
Universal Entertainment Group was also the tech partner for that venture.
Native American Tribes planning an online poker site but never launching it isn’t new. In 2014, California’s Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel was eyeing a poker site before the state sued it.
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