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Hawaii Senator Files Online Gambling Bill

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Hawaii Senator, Will Espero, creates a new online casino bill proposing to legalise and regulate the pastime on the tiny island, leaving Utah as the only state without any form of legal gambling.

Hawaii senator files online gambling bill SB.677When your family comes back from a trip to Hawaii, and they wax lyrical about standing in line for hours for the opportunity to eat flavoured ice from a store called Matsumoto’s you know the island needs a casino.

If gambling isn’t your thing and you think it’s the spawn of Satan, then you are probably best off living on the sun-drenched land of Hawaii. Along with that other idyllic state known as Utah, Hawaii is one of two states that offer zero forms of regulated gambling.

And yet despite this ban, it turns out in a study operated by Wallethub, that Hawaii is the 27th most gambling addicted state in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Methinks it’s time for a change.

Step Forward And Take a Bow SB.677

On January 20, State Senator, Will Espero, became the latest in a long list of politicians to try and legalise gambling in Hawaii when he filed SB677.

Espero declared that ‘tens of thousands’ of Hawaiians are gambling illegally on unregulated offshore Internet websites, sending ‘tens of millions’ of dollars out of the state’s Piggy Bank.

The bill attempts to put that right by creating The Hawaii Internet Lottery and Gaming Corporation who will have the role of trying to provide ‘consumer protection’ and ensure the gambling dollars stay on the island.

The 28-page bill proposes to legalise online casino, lottery, and poker games. Sports Betting is still thought to be too dangerous to put into the hands of sane men and women, so that’s off the cards.


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