The state of Massachusetts isn’t rushing into the online gambling arena any time soon, although the possibility to do so looms large on the radar of state lawmakers.
Stephen Crosby, the chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, tells the Milford Daily News it may be three more years before a Massachusetts casino opens.
Will the floodgates then similarly open for online gambling? Not so fast.
Calling online gambling a “major unknown question,” Crosby said, “We also have taken the position that Massachusetts shouldn’t do anything in online gambling until our bricks-and-mortar people are selected because they ought to be at the table when we do this. You can’t expect somebody to give us $85 million and then spend a billion to build a facility and change the rules of the game on them a year or two down the road.”
Crosby adds that online “will clearly be a disruptive technology for gambling as it is for everything else,” but he stopped short of confirming that Massachusetts would ever move into this arena before first seeing how other states like New Jersey are impacted by the arrival of online gambling.
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