The Interactive Gaming Council invited poker sites operators, software developers and players to support the House Bill 1509 by attending the March 8 hearing in Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota.
“Thousands of people in the U.S. and worldwide are playing online poker daily, and North Dakota has the chance to lead U.S. jurisdictions in legally recognizing this reality. Its regulations would help protect players, while generating tax revenue for the state and nurturing a new local industry,†said Rick Smith, executive director of the IGC.
“While other countries, including Britain, move ahead with regulated Internet gaming, the U.S. government continues to fight this form of gaming at every opportunity. At the same time, the U.S. is home to more players at online gaming sites than any other country, and state officials are beginning to realize that the Internet is just another means of delivering the gaming product, which is already legal in many other forms in most states of the U.S. They understand that it can be regulated online just as it is in the real world,” said Keith Furlong, deputy director of the IGC.
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