Attempts To Put Online Poker Back in California

Back in 2006 Congress tried to stop the booming online poker industry and since then people everywhere have been finding ways around it.  Some found other payment processors, casinos, poker rooms and other gambling sites that would still accept US Players.

And now a group of online poker players and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine have found a loophole in the federal law that could bring back online poker to a small part of the United States, California to be exact.

Levine created bill AB2026, this bill would order a study on the federal law that banned internet poker and would also explore if a California only online poker service could be legal.  If it is found to be legal the state could regulate the online games and of course keep a chunk of the revenues that it would create.

Levine said  “Our understanding of the law is that so long as the player and server (hosting the online game) are in California, it would be legal."  At least this is what Levine and the "Poker Player of America" are trying to find out soon.