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Legislation to regulate online poker in California could move forward by the end of the month after a last-minute amendment was submitted in a bid to gain some much-needed traction.

Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill moves along in snail-like fashion because of a conflict of interest between 10 powerful Indian Tribes who want to see PokerStars pay their pound of flesh after remaining in the US market post the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA), and a coalition led by PokerStars who do not.

The amendment to the bill takes a page out of the Nevada rule book, opting to penalise PokerStars or any other company that operated or facilitated in an operation of an online poker business in the States post-Dec, 31 2006, with a five-year ban.