California online poker players have been down this road before. Over the last decade, the state has debated the merits of legalizing online poker, but each year efforts have come up short leaving players out in the cold. In 2017, it appears legislators are once again ready to give legalizing online poker a shot after […]

If you follow the legislative doings in the online gambling world August was both an exciting and frustrating month. Late amendments reopened the door for California’s online poker bill, and touched off a contentious debate over which group was most deserving of the title “obstructionist.” But in the end 2016 ended the same as the […]

Barring an eleventh hour miracle, California’s latest attempt to pass an online poker bill appears to have suffered the same fate as the state’s previous efforts that date back nearly a decade.

After being put on hold in June, the California legislature could act on Assemblyman Adam Gray’s online poker this week, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation. In a recent Los Angeles Times articles, Assemblyman Adam Gray’s chief of staff Trent Hager said the bill will go to the Assembly floor on Monday. […]

Lawmakers in several states managed to do the impossible; they kept online poker supporters glued to their computers and mobile devices to watch live streams of the tedious and confusing goings on that takes place during legislative sessions, as two legislative bodies voted on and passed an online gaming bill, the New York State Senate […]

The “most-vetted bill” in California this year passed through the California Assembly Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. “If we held every bill to the standards we’ve held this bill, we wouldn’t have any bills,” AB 2863 sponsor Adam Gray said. Gray’s measure regulates and legalizes online poker in California, the largest US state by population, and […]

It’s probably a little too early to get super excited just yet, but Wednesday afternoon saw a California legislative committee pass a bill that would regulate online poker in the Golden State with some suggesting the law could pass in 2016.

December capped off a relatively quiet year on the poker legislation front in the US. However, the month itself was fairly eventful. Let’s take a look back at what legislative events happened in December, in case you missed it.

The Restoration of America’s Wire Act has now been introduced in both the US Senateand House of Representatives, causing at least a little bit of concern in the poker world, but that does not mean that efforts to legalize online poker in individual states has stopped.

On Thursday, history was made in California, as AB 431, a shell bill calling for licensing and regulating online poker, passed the California Assembly Appropriations Committee. Gambling Compliance’s Chris Krafcik pointed out that it might sit idle for the foreseeable future, however, Tweeting, “Bill heads to Assembly floor, where it will remain inactive until after […]

California lawmakers and a limited number of Golden State gambling stakeholders met Wednesday in the California Senate and Assembly Governmental Organization Committees for a Joint Informational Hearing on the gaming industry. Internet gambling, however, was not the main topic on the agenda and was hardly discussed. Visit PocketFives’ California poker community for the latest news […]

Don’t break out the bubbly just yet, but Monday was a momentous day for United States online poker, as California’s Assembly Governmental Organization Committee unanimously passed a pro-online poker bill, moving it to the floor of the full Assembly.

Four separate hearings are currently scheduled in the CaliforniaLegislature to discuss online poker and internet gambling. Whether anything develops from those remains to be seen, but four hearings are certainly better than zero.

After being splintered over the issue of regulated online poker in the state of California, one of the leaders of the most powerful Indian tribes says it is time that tribes “work together” to hammer out a compromise.

A second bill regulating online poker has been introduced in California, according to CardPlayer and other sites. The bill is the brainchild of Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyerand is called the Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015.