PokerStars teamed up with one of the highest buildings in Las Vegas, Wynn hotel-casino resort. The Wynn is a hotel five stars (one of the most luxurious Las Vegas) located in the front of the Treasure Island on the Strip. Lately, the two giants have concluded an alliance they call strategic.
This Alliance was born shortly a site named www.pokerstarswynn.com.
In this regard, the President of the hotel, Stephen Wynn: "following a thorough study, we are convinced that the lack of regulations for games on the Internet in the United States must change. We must acknowledge that this activity is growing and that the application of the current law lacks the tools to cope. As a company leading gambling activities to the United States safely for more than 40 years, we believe that the same thing can be done for poker on the Internet. In addition, it is time that thousands of jobs created and taxes generated by this activity are collected".
PokerStarsPresident Mark Scheinberg also says the new: "access to PokerStars is carefully regulated in several European countries and we support long-standing adoption of an approach similar to the United States. This partnership marks a decisive step to go in this direction."
This new is the moment where the Nevada considers legalizing online poker (a Bill suggesting that casinos can offer poker online without taxes in hotels with the specificity of a 4% tax on the profits that non-residents of Nevada will have generated.)
Speaking of this Bill (AB258), note that yesterday it was discussed with the presence of a former member of Parliament mandated by PokerStars (Richard Perkins) and Vanessa Rousso of Team PokerStars.
For obvious reasons, the hotels that operate casinos (Las Vegas, almost all hotels are also casinos) were opposed to online casinos. Today, with this alliance, there is surely at the beginning of a change of vision of things. Note, however, that hotel giants such as MGM and Caessars entertainment are opposed to the Bill.
Such a partnership was proposed at Harrah's, which has refused.
In allying himself to PokerStars, Wynn made nose the Nevada Gaming association, which earlier had suggested him to keep away from online casinos. Online poker legislation is always also blurred in the United States, but Wynn does not hesitate to take the lead.
Alliance Wynn -PokerStars is to our knowledge the 2nd big of the kind after NATO between Caesars entertainment (who own including the WSOP brand as well as many game settings) and 888 (who own online casinos).
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