N.D. House OKs massive Internet gambling Legislation

[sf340flier]

Cross posted to Internet Gambling.

As a citizen of the great state of ND (yes, I'm admitting that), I just wanted to add the actual bill being considered.

North Dakota Internet Poker Bill

Also, ND knows that a Federal fight would ensue and are prepared to battle it. Here's the link to an article about it.

Did you ever think that ND would/could be the "hot"bed of internet poker? Who knew?

[CCass]

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States rights pretty much ended with the Buck Act of 1940.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=buc...1&ei=UTF-8

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You have to go back further than that. States Rights have been a virtual dead duck since the Civil War.

[CORed]

I'd love to work for an online poker site (I'm in IT), but given a choice between living in Costa Rica or the Bahamas (or even Gibraltar) and North Dakota, I think Nort Dakota would be my last choice.

[tek]

Yes, we could also talk about: whether Lincoln's declaration of martial law still stands, the 14th Amendment,
the ICC, etc.

[ChuckHumphrey]

TwoPlusTwo readers amy find an article I wrote about the North Dakota Internet Poker bill of interest. It is posted at
http://www.gambling-law-us.com/Artic...nsed-poker.htm

[MicroBob]

Terrific analysis Chuck.
Very interesting stuff.

thanks so much for the link and for sharing your thoughts on this with us here on 2+2.

[fooz]

"A card game played by players who are dealt cards by an online nonplayer dealer with the objective of each player betting the superiority of the player's own hand and winning the other players' bets by either making a bet no other player is willing to match or proving to hold the most valuable cards after the betting is over."

Yeah. That's usually how I describe it too.

[fooz]

WOW!! So it was Barry Shulman, his wife and Frank Catania (?) who really helped pass the bill....

[bobbyi]

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There are 50 million Internet poker players in the country now and 300 million worldwide.

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50 million distinct people (meaning, we aren't multiply counting people with multiple accounts) in the US play online poker for money (I assume they mean for money, since play money is obviously legal and irrelvent to the discussion)? There are only about 260 million people in the US. So 1 out of 5 people play poker online? I don't see how that can possibly be right. If I went outside right now and asked 100 people where they play online, there is no way that 20 of them would say "Oh, I play on Pardise" or "I play $25 PLO on Party" or whatever. No way.

[Sully]

Something I've never quite understood about this type of legislation:

Why would I, a citizen of Colorado, feel the need to pay a licensing fee to North Dakota?

Why would a Costa Rican company (for example) feel the need to pay aa licensing fee to North Dakota?