Reid: Online Gambling Bill Hurts Online Poker Efforts

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Senator Harry Reid stopped short of officially declaring the effort to revive an online gambling bill dead, but said he couldn’t see any type of legislative effort succeeding. If the gaming market hadn’t already largely determined it, the Senate Majority Leader confirmed it Friday: The era of online poker in Congress is essentially over. “I felt for several months now that I don’t see any movement on this,” Reid said. “I don’t see anything happening.” Reid said that a bill filed in the House of Representatives yesterday by Rep. Peter King, D-N.Y.,…