Regulation in Review: US Regulation in Review: US
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Key Takeaways
  • Gambling expansion rejected in Kansas.
  • Oklahoman tribes ordered to cease online gaming.
  • ClubWPT ends its sweepstakes online poker following Florida internet cafe ban.
  • Illinois gaming board opposes gambling expansion.

Extensive activity involving poker’s legality and availability dominated state-level headlines this week. A hastily constructed Florida law designed to shut down the state’s popular internet sweepstakes cafes was signed by its governor amid concerns that the ban would affect other forms of electronic gaming involving poker, and neighboring Midwest states Kansas and Oklahoma both took steps to curtail possible gambling expansions in their midst.