Nevada Anticipates Online Poker Sites to be Live by Fall: NJ Big News Coming

In an interview with iGaming Business, Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board Mark Lipparelli, said he anticipates Internet poker rooms to go live as early as this coming fall (2012). 

He said, licensees “thoughtful about their approach and had their systems reviewed by test labs in the past” will be the first given the green light. An operation could go live soon after a successful technical evaluation, “by late fall and certainly by late winter or the early part of 2013.”

A number of operators have applied for licenses, however, online card rooms are only expected to vie for Nevada state residents at the onset.

Other states like New Jersey are also looking to legalize online poker.  New Jersey has made it no secret they want to form pacts with other states looking to provide a regulated Internet poker environment for their residents.   New Jersey could announce legalization as early as this coming Thursday (March 15). 

- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com