Two days before politicians reconvene to discuss the future of Senator Adam Gray’s Californian online poker bill, a survey organised by the opposition reveals that 52% of those polled don’t want online poker in the state.

After Tony G offered to bet the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader, Nigel Farage, £1m to prove that the United Kingdom would remain a part of the European Union (EU) in the wake of Thursday’s EU Referendum, the Lithuanian asserted that the odds lines are a more accurate indicator of public opinion than the polls.

If that’s the case, the online poker community will welcome some odds lines on online poker’s chances of emerging from the chrysalis as a fully regulated and licensed market in California.

We don’t have odds, but we do have polls, and a coalition of Californian American Indian Tribes who ardently oppose legalisation of online poker has financed the latest bit of data crunching.