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Cities prepare for the impact of new cardroom regulations
Image by Sinenkiy. New regulations around games offered by card rooms have a number of California cities afraid their budgets are about to go bust.
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Predictive markets set to make sports betting a big issue again
Image by Wpadington. A ceasefire over sports betting in California may be ending after DraftKings and FanDuel recently adopted business models that threaten the political power of the state’s gaming tribes.
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Tribal suit against cardrooms struck down…for now
Image by Valerii Evlakhov. More than a year ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to give California’s gaming tribes special standing in court to settle, once and for all, a long-simmering dispute they’ve had with their rival gaming rivals, the state’s cardrooms. Friday, however, the judge in the case ruled that despite the Legislature’s best efforts the tribes’ suit is preempted by federal law and cannot move forward.
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Proposed cardroom regulations will devastate Sacramento-area cities
Blackjack, image by 18percentgreyOPINION – A set of proposed regulations, pushed by well-funded California tribal casino interests, would effectively cripple California’s local card rooms.
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Odds getting better for legalized sports betting in California
Image by liveslowbackgroundIn the clearest sign yet that tensions are thawing on sports gambling in California, leaders of DraftKings and FanDuel spoke at an Indian gaming conference Monday about their desire to partner – not compete – with tribes to bring sports betting to the state.
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Tribes waste no time suing to block ‘California Blackjack,’ other Vegas-style games in cardrooms
Image by WD StuartOn the first day they were permitted to do so, several of California’s largest gaming tribes filed a suit on Thursday alleging that the arcane system cardrooms and related businesses employ to offer “California Blackjack” and other Las Vegas-style games is in violation of state law.
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Online sports betting companies align with California’s gaming tribes
Image by SinenkiyTwo years after California voters rejected online sports betting following an epic and costly ballot box fight, the two major forces at odds over the issue – California’s powerful gaming tribes and online sports betting companies like DraftKings and FanDuel – suddenly find themselves united against a common enemy: so-called gray market “sweepstakes” gambling sites that both camps say are cutting into their profits and undermining legal gaming operations here and across the country.
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The different worlds of California card rooms and tribal casinos
Image by Aleksey KurguzovThe Golden State’s two flavors of gambling establishments – tribal casinos and card rooms – are locked in perpetual conflict with one another. It is a conflict fast coming to a head in the Legislature and with California gaming regulators. To understand gaming’s future, this week we’re taking a look at the history of these two similar but also very different industries.
Opinion
Gaming bill emblematic of the broader struggles California tribal nations face
OPINION – The exclusive right to operate bank card games is constitutionally guaranteed to tribal nations as a path to re-establish our sovereignty and rebuild many of our tribal nations which were torn down by years of oppression and injustice. It is a right we take seriously, and a right we depend on to support our people.
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Convoluted ‘California Blackjack’ battle may finally go to court
California Blackjack, image by VictorWardA long-simmering and incredibly convoluted fight over “California Blackjack” may finally be decided in court, thanks to a bill pending in the Legislature. Senate Bill 549 by Sen. Josh Newman, D-Fullerton, would give California’s gaming tribes legal standing to sue California cardrooms over an arcane system they employ to offer Blackjack, which the tribes insist is in violation of state law.