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Tribes Against Legalized Poker

The United States is on the cusp of legalizing internet poker and even online casinos in individual US states and not everyone is pleased with the prospect. Many of the US state governments are psyched at the money potential of legalized internet gambling and are strongly considering intrastate legalization as a way to boost revenues coming into the state budget. California was one of the first US states to consider the online casinos, and internet poker in particular, as a viable opportunity to fund state programs. Currently though, the majority of the gambling activity in the state is processed through the tribes, and the tribes are not pleased with the prospect of losing some business to the internet poker sites. The California Tribal Business Alliance is erring on the side of caution and negating some of the initial claims of potential revenue that this industry could bring into the state.

Interestingly, the Tribal Alliance is nearly forced to take this stance because of the divergence of opinion between the tribes. Some tribes are supporting the efforts to legalize online casino poker in the state, while others are vehemently against the opportunity. The Alliance though is merely questioning the proposal by speculating and calling into question some of the loftier claims about the potential revenue. There is no doubt that the online casinos and poker sites are incredibly lucrative, particularly when operated through the state government, but the level of money is subjective and only open to predictions.

In essence though, the tribes are protecting their own assets while strongly asking that further analysis be done by unbiased outsiders to assess the potential value of a California online casino gambling industry and the full effects that this will have on state revenues from land tribal gambling as well.