Posted on | October 25, 2012 |
(Bloomberg News)
After spending two years trying unsuccessfully to legalize online poker, a group that included an Inland casino-owning tribe, has dissolved.
Tribes, including Inland tribes, were not united behind the effort to legalize online poker ? a factor that certainly didn?t make the failed attempt any easier.
From the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians: Effective October 12, 2012, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has withdrawn from the 29 tribe California Tribal Intrastate Poker Consortium, LLC, which was formed in 2009 to further the interests of California tribes in intrastate Internet poker. The consortium is one of two members of the California Online Poker Association (COPA). The other member is a consortium of major
California card rooms. San Manuel?s withdrawal from the tribal consortium automatically removes it as one of that organization?s delegates on the COPA board.
?Our tribe?s withdrawal was made after careful deliberation and with the greatest of respect for, and gratitude to, our tribal co-members in the consortium,? said San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
Chairperson Carla Rodriguez. ?Our collective effort was a meaningful step toward bringing the benefits of intrastate Internet poker that is safe and well-regulated to the public, the state government, and the
gaming industry in California. We look forward to continuing the cooperative efforts in the future.?
San Manuel?s decision to withdraw was based, she said, on the realization that, ?The politics over Internet poker over the last two years simply has not caught up with modern technology?s inroads into California gaming economics, and it was unclear how soon in the future that would change. We decided it was time to step back for awhile and assess the situation.?
From Ryan Hightower, the association?s spokesperson: ?The California Online Poker Association?s Board of Managers has announced it is dissolving the association. The decision was based upon insufficient progress within the legislature toward the passage of an online poker [sic] bill.
When the California Online Poker Association (COPA) was formed two years ago, the COPA operating agreement contemplated that the organization might be dissolved if state online poker legislation had not passed by January 2, 2013.
COPA?s members continue to believe that the authorization of intrastate Internet poker would provide California with hundreds of millions in new state revenue, thousands of new jobs and vital protections for players.?
Check back for more information as this story develops.
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