- Lottomania approved as a service provider, and Sartini as an operator, in the yet-to-be-launched Nevada online poker market.
Two more interactive gaming licenses were issued by the Nevada Gaming Commissions on Thursday.
After receiving preliminary approval earlier this month, Italian gaming company Lottomatica and Sartini Synergy Online—a subsidiary of Golden Gaming—are the latest companies to receive interactive gaming licenses, as Nevada prepares to roll out its intrastate online poker program.
Golden Gaming owns Golden Route Operations, the state’s largest slot route operator, and PT’s Entertainment Group, a tavern company, along with three casinos in Pahrump, Nevada.
Rome-based Lottomatica owns subsidiaries around the world, including the slot machine maker Spielo, with US headquarters in Las Vegas and GTECH, headquartered in Rhode Island.
Nevada lawmakers have recently introduced legislation to allow the state’s governor to take the program to the next level by authorizing online gaming compacts with other states that have passed internet gaming legislation.
Currently that list only includes Delaware, but New Jersey legislators have passed an online gaming bill that, absent of a veto by Governor Christie, will become law. Other states including California and Mississippi have also introduced internet gambling bills in 2013 and even more states are expected to join the movement.
That list may grow quickly once Nevada gets its program begins, but the launch of online poker in the silver state, once thought to happen in the fall of 2012, has yet to get underway.
