Michigan Online Poker Efforts Likely Done In 2016State Will Have To Resume Discussions In 2017 |
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The state of Michigan, the last state in the country with active online poker efforts this year, will more than likely have to resume discussions sometime in 2017.
According to a report from GamblingCompliance, the current legislative session is set to end in the following days, and it won’t be extended to next week to try to pass the online gaming bill. Similar efforts failed earlier this year in California, Pennsylvania and New York.
Michigan was vying to become just the fourth state in the country with regulated online poker. No state has legalized the activity since 2013.
Last month, Michigan’s Attorney General was one of 10 to sign a letter to President-elect Donald Trump calling for a nationwide ban on online casino games.
In June, Michigan’s Senate Regulatory Reform Committee approved the legislation, which sent it to a possible vote by the full Senate, but that never occurred.
Online gaming was pitched as a way to bolster the relatively stagnant gambling industry in the state. The three Detroit casinos win about $1.4 billion a year from gamblers, while the 23 tribal casinos win about $1.5 billion annually.
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