According to a report, the Massachusetts Gambling Commission received as many as 50 complaints per month about when the game will return. The regulatory agency usually receives about a tenth of that number spanning a variety of issues.
When Gov. Charlie Baker allowed the state’s three brick-and-mortar casinos to reopen in 2020, regulators refused to allow patrons to play table games like craps, roulette and poker. Last March, those regulations were eased, and the commission allowed the games to be spread with no more than four players at a table.
When the new rules were released, MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor, the two casinos with poker rooms in Massachusetts, refused to open poker rooms with a four-player max. Just two months later, all the restrictions were removed, but neither property opened its poker room.
Representatives from the casinos said they would likely make a decision by the start of next year.
Cathy Judd-Stein, chairwoman of the commission, seemed to stand up for poker players in the back-and-forth, calling the decision to keep poker closed a “slippery slope” and said that it was a “privilege” for the company to hold a license in Massachusetts.
She concluded that the commission will make periodic check-ins throughout the year to make sure the company continues to do its diligence on reopening the room.
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