Key Takeaways
- Churchill Downs reported a great Q4 and overall 2015.
- Last week the coalition of PokerStars supporters in California officially backed online poker bill AB 2863 which was introduced by Assemblyman Adam Grey earlier this year.
- The seven-year $3 billion deal made between the Seminole Tribe and Florida Governor Rick Scott appears to be dead for this legislative session.
- Live poker rooms in the state saw a small decline in revenues for the month of January. In total, $9.5 million in revenue was collected across the state’s 71 card rooms, an approximate 3% decline over the same period last year.
American Poker Awards/American Poker Conference
The second annual American Poker Awards and American Poker Conference took place last week in Los Angeles. The awards show served as the US’ biggest poker spectacle outside of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, while the conference gave the industry a chance to come together and discuss how it could best work together to help poker grow.
In addition to these two high profile events, Ales Dreyfus and Mediarex also held the draft for the Global Poker League. All three of the events were broadcast live on Twitch.
