Pennsylvania casino executives, lawmakers split on online gaming

Penn Live – Tuesday’s hearing on the prospect of legalizing Internet-based poker and other games through Pennsylvania brought out the full spectrum of the casino industry’s feelings about the newest wave of gambling expansion. To be sure, most of Pennsylvania’s current casino operators said they see long-term opportunity in an expansion styled after that implemented in New Jersey last year. But if past precedent is any example for the present, the range of opinions from the casino operators themselves will likely make any effort to include an Internet gaming expansion into this year’s budget package a tough climb. Executives and…