PA House Passes online poker bill

[hardeight]

http://www.flushdraw.net/news/pennsy...gambling-bill/

[Dan Druff]

So it passed the house, but it still needs to pass the Senate there.

Anyone know how the Senate is leaning on this?

[BCR]

So it passed the house, but it still needs to pass the Senate there.

Anyone know how the Senate is leaning on this?

Last I heard, there wasn't any clear opposition that made it seem doomed to fail or anything, but it's been going on for a long while. No idea how much longer it drags on. Being only 4 miles from PA border, I'd be really interested in seeing how it turns out. The area in PA closest to me is rural and I could probably rent a small 3 bedroom house for $400/month and simply use it to grind if it ever grew lucrative with other pools. PA is second in casino revenue behind Nevada, and first in tax revenue from gaming, so there is a lot of incentive to get it done I imagine. How they tax it and run it remains to be seen if it passes.

[hardeight]

they keep pussy footing around , but this should help it hopefully pass , jut copied and pasted the two things that should help it ,

Legislators had vowed to pry an extra $100m out of gaming for the 2016-17 budget, but the mechanism for arriving at that figure was never specified. Should the Senate decline to pass the House bill as is, it and every other unapproved bills will die and will have to be reintroduced from scratch when the new legislative session commences in January.

also , "The House appears to be betting that the Senate won’t balk if it means depriving the host communities of their missing slots tax revenue."





http://calvinayre.com/2016/10/27/bus...ling-dfs-bill/

[Dan Druff]

Pennsylvania has a population of 12.7 million. NJ has a population of 9 million.

I don't see a whole lot of difference there.

I think the poker will be fail again, just like it is in NJ.

It will probably take a state the size of California (38.8 million) to have enough of a player pool to make online poker work.

[hardeight]

Pennsylvania has a population of 12.7 million. NJ has a population of 9 million.

I don't see a whole lot of difference there.

I think the poker will be fail again, just like it is in NJ.

It will probably take a state the size of California (38.8 million) to have enough of a player pool to make online poker work.

Your probably correct , possibly with combined players pools may be decent , plus each state that passes more may join . If pa passes I could see New York coming on board .