Nevada may have been the first state in the union to legalize online gambling but we’ve already witnessed that it won’t be the last.
Officials in Nevada, however, aren’t calling states like Delaware and New Jersey “competitors.”
Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board A.G. Burnett recently granted an interview in which he admitted that Nevada doesn’t view the states that have regulated online gambling as competition.
“I’m looking forward to watching the operators as they come online, and as they stay online, in how they operate separately and individually,” Burnett says. “Right now, for example, we have two separate and distinct types of operators. We have Ultimate Poker and we have 888′s product with Caesars World Series of Poker, and to me, they’re two very good examples of what online operators can offer poker players.”
I’m interested to see if there’s competition between the two. I’m interested to see if the two can bring some revenues to their home base properties that they’re affiliated with. I’m interested in seeing what types of marketing they do, and I’m also interested in seeing new operators come online as we move forward, and how they affect the market or how they intermingle with the other two.
“It’s like the Las Vegas Strip. You’ve got different themed properties, and I think Nevada’s starting to look a little bit like that with the online operators, too, which, in my opinion, is good,” Burnett adds. “It’s a good thing.”
To read the eye-opening interview in its entirety, click here.
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