Online Poker Not Coming to Washington State or Mississippi

Although two bills will not proceed, there is good groundwork for progress in 2016.

Key Takeaways

New bills to create a legal state regulated framework for online poker have failed to progress in Washington State and Mississippi.
Player advocate Curtis Woodward did impressively well to get a bill to legalize online poker sponsored in Washington State.
In Mississippi, it was State Representative Bobby Moak’s turn to be disappointed.

New bills to create a legal state regulated framework for online poker have failed to progress in Washington State and Mississippi.

Player advocate Curtis Woodward did impressively well to get a bill to legalize online poker sponsored in Washington State. He secured the support of Representative Sherry Appleton (D) who prefiled HB 1114 on January 9.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on February 06, 2015.

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