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Bill constructed to launch sites quickly

Illinois State Representatives Robert Rita and Jonathan Carroll introduced a bill on Friday that would legalize online gambling, including online poker, in the state. HB 3142 would create the Internet Gaming Act (IGA) and, dare we say, it is actually a pretty reasonable piece of legislation.

The state already has legal sports betting, both retail and online. The first legal sports wager was placed nearly a year ago, on March 9, 2020. Unfortunately, that was just days before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns started, killing sports betting for a few months. Internet betting started last summer, but the problem there was that customers were required to create accounts in person. The governor waived that rule a couple times because of the pandemic and at this point, the regulation has expired.

As opposed to some other states, which dragged their feet on getting regulations in place and the switch turned on, even after online gambling was approved, the Illinois bill aims at making sure things get going quickly. When and if the bill becomes law, the Illinois Gaming Board will have 90 days to draw up the industry’s regulations. The bill also tells the Board to take as many regulations as possible from other states and the current rules for brick-and-mortar casinos to make the process as quick and simple as possible. It’s like an online poker operator opting to use another company’s software, rather than creating its own from scratch.

If an operator that already has a sports betting license applies for an online casino or poker license, the Board must issue a one-year temporary license to them within 30 days.

Interstate gaming approved

Illinois’ potential Internet Gaming Act also approves interstate gaming compacts, so multi-state player pooling would be possible for online poker. Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware currently have an interstate poker network, the All American Poker Network, populated by WSOP.com in Nevada and New Jersey and three 888poker-based racinos in Delaware.

Pennsylvania’s regulations permit interstate gaming compacts, but the state has not entered into any yet. Right now, the only poker room in the Keystone State is PokerStars, which also has a site in New Jersey and Michigan. Speaking of Michigan, the state originally did not allow interstate compacts, but did pass a separate bill to fix that error. Michigan’s online poker industry has only been alive for a few weeks and no multi-state arrangements have been made.

Licensing costs unremarkable

The bill would open up the market to 13 licenses, one for each of the state’s ten casinos and three racetracks. Each license holder, in turn, could have up to three skins.

The costs are very reasonable. Each license would initially cost $500,000, with a $250,000 renewal fee every four years. The tax rate is 12 percent of adjusted gross gaming revenue.

Illinois’ Internet Gaming Act would force operators to implement responsible gambling protocols such as voluntary self-exclusion and deposit limits. It also earmarks $10 million for problem gambling programs through the Department of Human Services.

The 2020 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Championship is one of three WPT delayed final tables that are now set to play down to a winner more than a year after the final six players were initially decided. The WPT was scheduled to play out that event, along with the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open and the WPT L.A. Poker Classic over a three-day period from Mar. 31 through Apr. 2, 2020 at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but the tour was forced to postpone those final tables due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Card Player can now confirm that these three events, along with the final table of the upcoming 2021 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown will play to a conclusion this spring at a new venue: the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.

The 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship is now scheduled for Mar. 10, 2021. That means that the champion will be decided 422 days after the final six players bagged up their chips back on Jan. 13, 2020. The players were originally only meant to wait 11 weeks before playing down to a winner. Recent Galfond Challenge participant and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Chance Kornuth is the chip leader among the final six players.

The 2020 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open will now be the first of a series of three final tables played out from May 16-18. The 2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic will take place on May 17, while the 2021 WPTSHR Poker Showdown will conclude on May 18, just a few weeks after the final six are decided on Apr. 27, 2021.

“We want to make sure that not only are our partner casino… are ready to go, but also that we are making sure that our player safety and our staff safety is paramount,” said WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage when asked about the difficulties of this delayed final table situation in an interview with Card Player last year. “We are ready to go… as soon as things open up and hopefully, the players won’t have those travel restrictions at that time. We need to be very cognizant of that as well, to make sure that we can get everybody to those final tables and do it in a safe manner. So like I said, we’re ready to go as soon as things change and I believe that the players are as well. All the players that made the final tables in question have been paid out sixth-place money. I hope that those players are doing fine and that we can get cards back in the air as soon as it is safely possible.”

The change in venue for these final tables may be the result of a change in the ownership of the WPT which took place in January. The tour was sold by Allied Esports, which owns the HyperX Esports Arena, to Element Partners, LLC for a reported $78,250,000.

Here is a look at the schedule for these upcoming delayed final tables:

Photo credit: Joe Giron / WPT.

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