A Glimpse Into How Interstate Online Gambling Will Work

The Nevada Gaming Commission this week filed a “Request for Comment” as it relates to how “regulations concerning interstate agreements for interactive gaming” should work as the Silver State looks to begin offering online poker to those beyond its borders. 

Last month, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed Assembly Bill 114 into law that would allow his state to form compacts with other states utilizing a model similar to that of the Lottery System’s Powerball game. 

Here were the primary focus questions:

• 1. What topics should the Board and Commission consider putting in regulation relating to an interstate agreement on interactive gaming?
• 2. Should revenue sharing between signatory states to a compact be based on the location of where the wager originated? Why or why not? Please be specific and cite any relevant legal support.
• 3. Should revenue sharing between signatory states to a compact be based on the location of the licensed interactive host? Why or why not? Please be specific and cite any relevant legal support.
• 4. Should the regulatory body of the signatory state where the wager originated have control over player disputes related to said players? Why or why not? Please be specific and cite any relevant legal support.
• 5. Please provide any other information not requested above that is relevant to regulations for interstate agreements on interactive gaming. Regulatory language will be drafted after comments are submitted and will be considered at a regulatory workshop yet to be scheduled.

Comments will be accepted by the Commission’s Executive Secretary until April 12, 2013 and will be subsequently posted online. Replies to those comments will then be accepted until April 19, 2013.

- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com