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I think there's too much emphasis here on the bill's effect on online gaming (to the exclusion of live). If Skallagrim is right...

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all those MA law provisions repealed and replaced, refer to public and semi-public places (like taverns and Inns). Thats how MA wrote thieir law 90 years ago, to criminalize places of gambling rather than gambling itself. It left playing cards for money in your den still legal. And its defintion of gambling includes lotteries and a number of other similar "games of chance" - it is an open legal argument whether poker is even covered by these laws now; no question (if its raked) its covered under the new statute though.

Skallagrim

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...live gaming would be affected too. Which brings up two points:
1) I don't want live poker going from quasi-legal to illegal in MA.
2) Even if you don't care about live poker, lots of poker players (and potential allies) do. They play home or underground games. We'd at least double our support for changing this bill by reaching out to the people who just play live poker.