Re: why was this law passed?
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You don't think Harrah's, MGM etc all wanted this passed more than anyone?
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You are an idiot if you think the B&M casinos were LOSING money due to online poker. Anyone who has been playing poker since before the online boom could tell you that poker was practically on life support in many B&Ms before online poker started getting more people playing and into the B&M cardrooms. Over the past few years every casino in Vegas has added a poker room. There are easily 10x as many games going in B&M casinos now as there were a decade ago. If it has hurt any casino, it probably hurt Binion's the most.
Also, take a look at how big the WSOP (and other events like WPT) has gotten over the past few years thanks to online qualifiers. Harrah's had 9000 people at this year's main event and overall the WSOP generated so much action every cardroom in Vegas made out like crazy this summer. What B&M manager in their right mind would want that gravy train to end? If this bill turns out to really have teeth and stop people from playing online, we'll be lucky to see even half as many people in next year's WSOP.
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