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    • Senator Harry Reid Gives Cause For Optimism For Federal Gaming Legislation



    It appears that the march back to common sense is well underway in the United States. Recently we wrote about how MGM CEO James Murren was confident that 2012 would be the year that online poker finally returned to America after its virtual disappearance in 2006. It's been staggering along in a minor way since then but not so as anyone would notice. Murren's point was that if the federal authorities were not going to get themselves organised with some legislation then that states would do it themselves; or at least the ones that wanted to.


    From a wider perspective this seemed like the best way to force the feds hand; to get them to speed up consideration of the various bills currently on the table. Now Senator Harry Reid, a former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission, has suggested that that is what will now happen. Reid told a reporter that it would indeed "give us an incentive to get something done. We cannot have a series of laws around the country related to gaming.....it's very important that we have a national law."


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    Senator Harry Reid

    Reid of course is hardly partisan - he's the Senior Nevada Senator and has a vested interest in getting his bill passed. He is going about things the right way though; he's negotiating with the right people and has been getting input from the big American casino operators. He's also getting some important cross-party support. Reid and his supporters were given a massive boost by the Department of Justice decision in December that the 1961 Wire Act only related to sports betting, theoretically opening the way for online poker , lotteries and other forms of gaming. Perhaps 2012 will be the year when American poker players can once again enjoy the game from the comfort of their own homes.



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