Nevada: Bill seeks to shine a light on cheating in online poker

Nevada: Bill seeks to shine a light on cheating in online poker

Article brief provided by Nevada Independent
  • Howard Stutz, Nevada Independent
March 28, 2023 4:03 PM
  • Howard Stutz, Nevada Independent

When AB380 was introduced last week, the language wasn’t exactly what proponents anticipated.

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As drafted, the bill calls for the Nevada Gaming Commission to create a list of people with interactive gaming accounts who have been suspended or banned for cheating.

Sara Cholhagian Ralston, the former executive director of the state’s Patient Protection Commission, said she’s working on the bill alongside Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) in her personal capacity as a professional poker player. She said the bill was meant to provide transparency for Nevada’s online poker community.

But the measure wasn’t supposed to create an internet gaming version of Nevada’s List of Excluded Persons who are banned from casinos, which is commonly referred to as the Black Book. The Gaming Control Board and Nevada Gaming Commission nominate and approve Black Book members.