First step to make Online poker LEGAL in North Dakota PASSES...

<TABLE class=contentpaneopen cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">09-03-2005 North Dakotans to vote on constitutional poker amendment </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%"></TD><TD vAlign=top align=right></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>House Representatives voted 50-44 to approve the amendment, House Concurrent Resolution 3035, which proposes to change North Dakota’s state constitution to authorize "internet live poker, licensed and regulated by the state".





The amendment now passes to the Senate and eventually would go to the June 2006 primary ballot for a statewide vote.


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not sure this was posted but WOW not to shabby could we one day play online thru a ND regulated site

in a related article good stuff maybe starting to happen...could it be legal to play online poker theu ND

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Sportingbet to sponsor House Bill 1509 at the North Dakota legislative hearing <TABLE class=contentpaneopen cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%"></TD><TD vAlign=top align=right></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>Nigel Payne, CEO of Sportingbet, Greg Raymer, 2004 World Poker Tour Champion, along with several other representatives of the Internet poker industry, will be promoting North Dakota to become the Internet poker capital at the hearing on March 8. "If we pass the law, they will come. Whether North Dakota passes these bills or not, the Internet is here to stay and Internet poker is here to stay," said Rep. Jim Kasper.

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