Nevada’s Stance on Online Gambling

November 28, 2007

As far as online gambling is concerned, places like Nevada stand to lose much more than states like Florida. If residents can participate in online gambling, why would they come to the casinos if they can do it at home? Well, how many would participate in online gambling and how would it affect the state should it be legal? That is a question the state wants to know.

There is also the issue that many online gambling operators are going to the Nevada regulators asking them if they can participate in online gambling – before anything has even been decided in Washington. The state decided that with this much interest in them making online gambling legal in their state that they should do a study to see where it might take them.

The UNLV International Gambling Institute is looking into how many residents currently participate in online gambling and how many more would if it was legal. They say that when they have their results they will make them known to the public, as many are curious as to what they will find out.

Nevada says that they cannot make any decisions based on what the people want at this time, and that they are waiting for the results of the study to see what they will find. They are also wondering how it will work with the US Department of Justice ruling that they want all online gambling made illegal.

The government is basing their online gambling ban on the 1960’s wire act which was written to battle organized crime and sports betting, but had nothing to do with online gambling – simply because it had not yet been discovered. However, the state needs to see what the results are before making a decision. This is not the first time they have looked into legalizing online gambling, and probably won’t be the last.
 

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