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The nail was driven into the coffin lid of Iowa’s intrastate online poker on Thursday as the state Senate Ways & Means Committee voted 9-6 to approve an amended version of File 458 from which all mention of regulating online poker had been removed. Instead, the state Racing and Gaming Commission will be tasked with conducting a fact-finding mission for use in possible future attempts at bringing sanity to the corn belt. However, even this minor nod toward regulating online poker met with disdain from Sen. Randy Feenstra, who felt the move “heads us down that slippery slope to approve this someday.” Not to be outdone, Sen. Brad Zaun lamented his state’s seeming inability to “slam the door on this thing,” opining that the mere fact that they were discussing online poker regulation meant that the legislature had “hit a low point.”
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