Mississippi New Online Poker Bill

Mississippi New Online Poker Bill

The state of Mississippi has released another bill seeking to regulate internet poker inside state, and even though most expect until this bill will not have any potential for passing, the details recently became revealed as far as the things they will probably be considering and what this would look like if passed.

A lot of the bill includes a lot of standard features including age and residency requirements, and other connected matters, and in addition it specifies how the state may enter interstate agreements as they see fit.  This actually might end up as a big thing simply because this state isn’t the biggest in at all terms of population and with only 3 million people they could not be able to do very well on their own.

The best part of the check is due to the enforcement of non compliance.  ISPs are usually necessary to block and also close accounts which are discovered to be accessing offshore poker rooms.  It does stipulate that ISP’s must “knowingly” allow such access though so it’s tough to say what knowingly would mean on this context.

It also provides the capacity to either seize domains of offshore poker rooms offering access to Mississippi residents, or if unable to do so, seek restraining orders against them through civil action.  There’s no real probability of either happening though.

However, they're able to in principle pursue players, and residents with the state discovered to be playing at these offshore sites face much stiffer penalties.  They want to beef up the actual penalty of your fine not exceeding $500 to around 3 months in jail plus a fine as much as $10,000.

That might scare a lot of people but given the extreme impossibility of prosecuting this type of law, without having one ever being even involved in this inside entire country notwithstanding many states having laws against internet gambling, it is most probably all bark no bite, though the bark is louder anyway. Meanwhile, there are still many sites where US players can start to play poker online. Right now, sites like Carbon Poker or Bodog/Bovada are attracting a large number of players.

So this appears more becoming a vendetta against offshore gambling than anything else, and it’s already prohibited in Mississippi to learn poker online anyway, but nobody is able to do anything about it anyway.  In but the, the expectation is this bill will fail and now we might need to see several more written before we ever see one pass on this state.