LA Times runs piece on online poker

[The Buzz]

The Los Angeles Times published an article over the weekend about the efforts in Nevada to regulate online poker. Those efforts picked up last week over the news that Wynn Resorts and PokerStars have entered a partnership to try to legalize and regulate online poker.

From the LA Times:

Meanwhile, on Thursday, state lawmakers convened in Carson City for a hearing on legislation that would make online poker legal for Nevada residents. But that measure faces significant opposition from the casino industry. Industry giants — such as Caesars Entertainment and MGM Grand Resorts — have made it clear that they would prefer federal, and not state, regulation of online gambling.

"I'd be willing to bet that no major gaming legislation has ever passed in Nevada that has been opposed by the state's largest casinos," said I. Nelson Rose, a Whittier Law School professor and expert in gambling law.

Alan Feldman, a spokesman for MGM Resorts, said the regulation must happen at the federal level. "Otherwise we end up with a patchwork of rules and regulations," he said.

[grem]

give it 2 more years for regulation