Top Online Gambling Moments of 2012

#3 – Nevada Issues Online Gambling Licenses
The Silver State has long been the frontier of gambling in America and the legal online poker market is no exception. Gears in the Nevada gaming machine were already moving when the DOJ’s Christmas gift arrived last year so it’s no surprise they’ve already started issuing online gaming licenses.
Nevada gaming regulators handed out the first legal online gaming license in American history to to Bally Technologies last summer. Since that time, the they’ve has been busy, busy, busy issuing licenses to a host of online gambling interests.
Though online poker is only open to Nevada residents, the model they’re setting up will almost certainly be copied as other state governments jump on the bandwagon.