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California, Embracing the Online Casinos?

Federal law in the United States has a ban on foreign online casinos gambling activities and restrictions on domestic internet gambling activity. There are debates as to whether the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) applies to interstate internet gambling, but it seems that California is the first of the U.S. states to assert that the UIGEA has no effect on interstate online casinos and poker gambling. As such, a new bill has been proposed to California State legislators would authorize a state-sponsored study into expanding poker gambling options in the state by legalizing and regulating internet poker.

Naturally there are two sides to the issue, but at this point there seems to be a fair amount of support for the bill, AB 2026. The bill will not actually legalize online casinos poker gambling in the state, but rather pushes for an in depth and thorough study of the feasibility and impact of internet poker in the state.

The bill’s main opponents at this point is the California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion. This group does not even support the state studying the issue and asserts that the state government should be focused on limiting the number of gambling choices in the state rather than looking at options for increasing the opportunities and ability to gamble through the online casinos in addition to the many land casinos and gambling facilities.

Proponents though contend that it is only a study at this point, and that the Californian’s are already gambling through the online casino poker gambling sites, so not only could the state could benefit from taxing the existing internet poker gambling, but the players would be protected by a regulated industry rather than the current murky and underground internet gambling industry in the U.S.