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Opinion: Iipay Nation could be bluffing on Internet poker game


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Writer wonders whether the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel in California is really going to offer real-money poker games on PrivateTable.Com:
There is also the not so small chance that this is little more than posturing by the Iipays.

The Iipays could be bluffing about launching an online poker room in an effort to make sure any online poker bill that is passed in California has some amount of revenue sharing for smaller tribes, specifically tribes with little or no gaming.

Under the current revenue sharing model in California these tribes (non-gaming and tribes with less than 350 gaming machines) receive a $1.1 million yearly stipend from the larger gaming tribes, and they are likely looking for a similar revenue sharing system with the tribes that are involved in online gambling.

Revenue sharing is something Morongo Chairman Robert Martin addressed when I spoke to him after the sale of PokerStars to Amaya Gaming when he said the Morongos wanted revenue sharing to be included in an online poker bill – where the proposed $5 million licensing fee is beyond most smaller tribes.

This development could simply be a nudge to get the legislature to act and to make sure that smaller tribes are involved in online poker through a new revenue sharing deal.

Strengthening the possibility that the entire thing is a bluff are recent tweets that have indicated the Iipay online poker site (privatetable.com) will not be launching for real-money on Monday as was first announced, but will be announcing a launch date sometime next week… So stay tuned for an announcement of an announcement where we will announce when we might be launching.

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