Nevada Bill Aims To Keep Internet Gaming Compacts With Other States Limited To Just PokerBill Comes As Nevada, Delaware Work On Implementing Compact |
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Nevada has what you would call traditional online gaming in the form of peer-to-peer poker, though there is also mobile sports betting in the Silver State. A new bill in the Nevada legislature calls to preemptively limit Nevada partnerships with other online gaming states to just poker and not any other games.
Nevada is currently in the process of making its compact with Delaware for online poker a reality. New Jersey is the third web gaming state in the U.S., and while it doesn’t yet have a partner it could eventually be in the liquidity sharing equation. Some say the industry needs Nevada and New Jersey to team up for poker.
Nevada has two online poker sites in operation, while Delaware has three. 888 Holdings has the software behind all but one of the poker sites (three in Delaware and one in Nevada).
According to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston, the bill is backed by Sheldon Adelson, who is trying to get online poker banned nationwide. Looks like he is hedging his bets here.
Here’s what the Nevada bill says it would accomplish in its own words:
Existing law authorizes the Governor, upon recommendation of the Nevada Gaming
Commission, to enter into agreements with certain governments to enable patrons in the
signatory states to participate in interactive gaming. (NRS 463.747) This bill: (1) provides that such agreements may only be entered into to enable patrons in the signatory states to participate in Internet poker; and (2) defines Internet poker for such purposes.
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