Regulated Online Poker New Mexico. New Mexico have been negotiating a gambling compact with the Navajo tribe. In New Mexico, the state and the tribes have a rev-share agreement, where the tribes pay the state a part of revenue and in turn the competition is limited. The main issue is that the tribe want the option to withhold payments to the state from their slot revenues if the state regulates any form of online gambling.
| Online Poker Status |
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|---|---|
| Population 21 or older | 1.4 Million |
| Proportion of total US population | 0.66% |
| Live Poker | Yes |
| Estimated year for online regulation | NA |
| Probability - Interstate agreement | NA |
On March 26, a U.S. government subcommittee will hold a hearing to discuss the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) – an effort to ban all forms of iGaming. Originally scheduled for March 5, but canceled due to bad weather, this meeting figures to present some extremely biased views against U.S. online poker and casino […]
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Even as we enter the spring of 2015, it appears that certain tribes’ views of PokerStars participating in the California online poker market haven’t changed. This much was confirmed by a tribal coalition’s letter sent to Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, author of online poker bill AB 167, which claims that his legislation is “fatally flawed.” That […]
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Has a poker player who robbed a Washington state bank made the game look bad following his arrest? Ben McClean, who says he lost $8,000 playing poker, is now sitting in a suburban Seattle jail after robbing a Marysville bank. Police found him hiding in a bush just 100 yards away from the scene of […]
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They say that the best defense is a good offense, and the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is really taking this philosophy to heart in 2015. No longer content to sit back and defend online poker against Sheldon Adelson and the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), they have really attacked efforts to ban iGaming this […]
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Pala Interactive was ready to enter the New Jersey online poker market in the third quarter of this year. However, those plans are now being shelved largely because Pala believes PokerStars will soon be entering the market and they can’t compete with Stars right now. Jim Ryan, the company’s CEO, explained to CalvinAyre.com that Pala’s […]
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