Online poker may be attached to the Payroll Tax Cut Extension

[grimReaper]

Source: NV Gov. Sandoval calls top casino execs and tells them of agreement between Reid & Kyl, adding internet poker to payroll tax bill.

-https://twitter.com/#!/GlobalGamingBiz/status/167707940474720256

But governor Sandoval's spokesperson shot down these claims:

@BrianSandoval spox shoots down Twitter report he is telling NV casinos of a Reid-Kyl deal on #webpoker. "That is patently false," she sez.

(thank a poster on another forum for this info)

Many other respected posters on another forum that claim to have info said this is not a mere rumor.

Also, if you weren't aware, there is a good chance NV hosts intrastate poker before the end of this year. If the attached bill accepts Nevada's regulations for interstate poker, as Reid intended in Dec 2010, we could potentially have interstate poker by the end of this year - but this is all speculation. If this passes (and it's still an "IF"), then it's likely it'll take a year before we're playing online.

[jspill]

any simple cliffs on this for non USA/bit dumb people like myself?

basically it means online poker could be coming back to the USA right, legal, taxed and regulated? first Nevada, then all states? who are making these decisions?

fingers crossed

[grimReaper]

basically it means online poker could be coming back to the USA right, legal, taxed and regulated? first Nevada, then all states? who are making these decisions?

Poker legislation has already passed in Nevada, making intrastate poker legal there. The only holdup is that the regulators are getting their act together and then will be licensing sites. Many believe we'll see intrastate online poker in NV by the end of this year.

On February 29th, a tax cut extension bill will be voted on and it seems this will be a must pass. So it's rumored Senator Majority Leader Reid, who has ties with the casinos, will attach an online poker bill. The idea and politics of it will be A) the Wire Act only applies to sports betting, not to other forms of gambling so therefore we must B) prohibit all forms of online gambling at the federal level, except poker, which will be taxed and regulated. I wouldn't get too excited, but something might be brewing.

[grimReaper]

Unfortunately it won't be attached.