Bill to prove transparency for Nevada´s online poker
Wednesday 29 de March 2023 / 12:00
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(Nevada).- As drafted, the bill AB380, introduced last week, calls for the Nevada Gaming Commission to create a list of people with interactive gaming accounts who have been suspended or banned for cheating.
Sara Cholhagian Ralston, the former executive director of the state’s Patient Protection Commission, said she’s working on the bill alongside Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) in her personal capacity as a professional poker player. She said the bill was meant to provide transparency for Nevada’s online poker community.
The Nevada´s List of Excluded Persons, banned from casinos, is commonly referred to as the Black Book. The Gaming Control Board and Nevada Gaming Commission nominate and approve Black Book members. This list would seemingly require online poker operators to provide the names of the individuals.
“The intent is to protect players,” Sara Ralston said. “A lot of these online players hide behind a screen name. We have no idea who they are. The idea is to provide more information to the player.”
Ralston said she is drafting an amendment to clarify the language.
“This was never intended to be an overburden on the operator, because cheating is so hard to define, especially in the online space,” remarked Ralston. “How do you prove it and how do you not interfere with a criminal investigation? That's not the intent.”
Nevada legalized online poker in 2013, but there is just one site, World Series of Poker, which Caesars Entertainment runs. Because there is just one online poker site, the state doesn’t disclose revenue from the activity.
Nevada is part of the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement that was created in 2014 with Delaware to build the player pool for two of the nation’s smallest states in terms of population.
New Jersey joined in 2017 and Michigan was added a year ago. Since 2012, six states – Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia – have legalized online casino gaming.
Yeager (D-Las Vegas), who is a part-time poker player, said AB380, which was referred to the Assembly Judiciary Committee, was drafted with more expansive language than what had been intended.
“I think it should be more narrow and limited,” Yeager said. “There needs to be some kind of transparency and some kind of accountability. When the WSOP or somebody decides that something is egregious enough that they're going to ban a player, I think the poker community ought to know that.”
By Howard Stutz
Categoría:Online Games
Tags: online gaming,
País: United States
Región: North America
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