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The Morongo Band of Mission Indians near Banning continues push for Internet poker -

Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By JIM MILLER


PALM SPRINGS - A Riverside County tribe's effort to legalize Internet gambling in California continued to face skepticism Wednesday from tribal colleagues gathered for their annual gaming conference.

Several months after a failed push for state legislation authorizing a "tribal intrastate Internet poker consortium," the Morongo Band of Mission Indians near Banning seems no closer to getting significant support from other successful gaming tribes.

Time is short, Morongo Tribal Chairman Robert Martin told people attending the Western Indian Gaming Conference.

Unless tribes expand beyond bricks-and-mortar casinos, California's $7 billion tribal gambling industry risks losing a big part of its business to increasingly popular online gambling sites, Martin warned.

Congress is weighing two bills that would end the federal ban on online gambling in the U.S. That would lead to an explosion of Internet poker sites based inside and outside the country, he said   Read Full Article...

 
 

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