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Online Casino Gaming Faces Pushback in 2025 from Certain States
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2/17/2025
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You know a lot of backlash coming too, Pat, from online casino gaming. Like this seems to be gaining
00:05
a lot of steam everywhere here. I thought this would be the year of that. Seems like it's going
00:09
the other direction. Yeah and I think that is kind of just how things are shaping up this year in
00:14
online gaming in general. You know in December we had that U.S. Senate hearing to kind of look
00:19
into it and that certainly was a first step and not going away at the national level. And so there
00:24
is just lots of headwinds. You've got a lot of major media outlets kind of writing about the
00:29
negatives of the industry and certainly there are plenty. But you know that kind of negates the
00:34
importance of regulating it and so it's all out in the open and everything. You know you talk
00:38
about all these scandals that get caught. It's because it's in a regulated market not because
00:43
it's legal. But you know in Indiana it probably was our best chance this year for a state to go
00:51
ahead and pass an online casino. Which is tough because that is a tough state because they took
00:57
a moratorium last year because of a legal conviction related to gambling legislation. So
01:05
they were like we're not even touching the issue. But previous years before that online casino had
01:10
been talked about and industry stakeholders said hey this could be a state that could be next.
01:16
And this year it started off strong. It passed a committee and then it just kind of died. You know
01:21
you had two weeks ago you had legislative leadership saying on both sides in the House
01:28
and the Senate saying hey this is something that we certainly need to look at. We want to look at
01:33
but we need to get it right. And you know it didn't get a hearing in the Ways and Means Committee
01:38
in the House. Basically the House leader came out and said you know what we got it a step. We've got
01:44
a lot of things to look at. We need to make sure we get this right. This isn't the year. So online
01:48
casino in Indiana is dead. There's a few other states that it's kind of bouncing around. Illinois
01:53
it was mentioned in a budget by Governor Pritzker. Maryland's got some big discussions going on. So
01:58
it's certainly still alive some spots but it's quickly been killed in other areas just because
02:04
it is a very big issue. You know just the idea of a slot machine in a pocket is a lot and it
02:09
is a big deal for a lot of people. And lawmakers certainly are not taking that lightly.
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