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California is Getting Poker
 
August 14, 2009

California has long been pushing to do a kind of intrastate online poker or online gambling and they say that they have the right to offer it so they are going to do so. They say that intrastate gambling is not included in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act or UIGEA and so it is up to the states to decide what they want to do. This is exciting for the online poker community, especially since they have always maintained that they were exempt from the UIGEA anyway.
 
The tribal casino operators say that they are ready to work with their long time “foes” in order to get poker online in the state. They are going to lobby to get online poker and if they have to pair up with their competitors to do that they are more than willing to do so.
 
Up until now the tribes have fought against poker rooms coming in as they maintained that it took away from their earnings at their casinos. There are some tribes that argue that by bringing in online poker they are violating the federal laws that say that you cannot have poker playing or gambling off of tribal land.
 
The Morongo tribe says that they have to come together to offer poker, especially since state lawmakers seem to be in favor of it as well. They know that if they offer online poker they will be able to make more money for the state which is so desperately needed right now to balance their budget.