NANNY STATE:
PokerStars today announced that it would cease providing real-money poker to residents of Washington State. To date, PokerStars has operated in Washington on the basis of legal opinions where the central advice was that the state could not constitutionally regulate Internet poker, or at least could not discriminate in favor of local cardrooms and against online sites. Last week, however, the Washington Supreme Court for the first time rejected that position and upheld the state’s Internet gaming prohibition.
Details can be found here: http://pokerati.com/2010/09/30/pokerstars-blocking-real-money-play-for-washington-state-residents/
And here: http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/news/washington/faq
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