Nevada ready for poker

The Nevada legislature has approved plan for administration of online poker once congress falls into line

Since Black Friday the status of online poker has been all over the media and in the debates of legislators all over the United States and the world as a whole. There have been attempts to ban online poker all of the way from Germany to the States and in many countries in between. But the one overriding problem is that people in all countries just love playing and aren’t prepared to stop just because it is illegal. No legislature understands this better than Nevada and no legislature has more constituents who want to see the online game legalised than in Nevada’s city of lights, Las Vegas.
It is likely that this is why the Nevada legislature has put in place a range of laws governing the implementation of online gaming when it finally becomes legal throughout the continental United States once more. It was the Nevada governor, Brian Sandoval who approved Assembly Bill number 258 which called for the Gaming Control Board to set up regulations for internet poker. The Chairman of the Gaming board, Mark Liparelli made a statement saying "Internet poker has become a multibillion-dollar business around the world…The technology supporting it, while not perfect, has improved dramatically since its introduction. Similar to our land-based requirements, Nevada will establish high standards giving players as much confidence as possible in the entities and technologies that might eventually gain approval."
Online poker has been illegal in the United States since 2006 but the game was widely played and unofficially tolerated by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) allowing millions of Americans to have fun playing their favourite game online. That all changed on April 15th 2011 when the DoJ fell on the three largest online poker sites in the world. A total of 11 people were arrested, accounts were frozen and indictments for money laundering, fraud and a host of other financial crimes were handed down. At least one poker site, Full Tilt Poker has never recovered from being ejected from the US market. All of the players who had money in the site have lost out as a result with the companies running the brand unable or unwilling to return the funds to their onetime clients. Their case continues, at the moment they have had their gaming license suspended and are therefore out of action.