Companies like Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, operate worldwide and in hundreds of gaming jurisdictions. And they know intimately how to design and test software that provides brick-and-mortar and virtual casinos with their poker and casino games. After the recent ruling by Nevada gaming regulators to bring in independent testing laboratories to test and approve the new Internet poker software proposed by interactive gaming licensees, gaming labs will also play an important part in how fast Nevada and other US states offer actual online poker play.

A part of the licensing agreement that was reached last week with Bally Technologies and International Game Technology required that those companies submit for approval the physical and virtual systems they would use to manage and monitor their online gambling entities. Both Bally and IGT wisely are planning on using systems already in place in Europe, where they have been tested, approved and are currently in use. But that doesn’t mean they get rubber stamp approval in Nevada, where privately owned gaming labs Gaming Laboratories International and BMM International were registered by Nevada’s Gaming Control Board to test proposed online gaming equipment.

Gaming Laboratories has such an age-old reputation and far-flung reach concerning global gaming that Chief Executive Officer James Maida claimed if a particular gaming technology or device is already in place somewhere on the globe, his company’s engineers have already tested it. GLI currently boasts more than 1.6 million certifications performed worldwide in the last 20 years. BMM operates worldwide as well, and certifies physical and virtual gaming products in more than 400 jurisdictions globally.

Maida said that since his company is familiar with the systems that will be used by IGT, Bally and others, the only thing left to do is ensure that equipment passes Nevada gaming standards. What does this mean to the prospective online poker player in Nevada? It is good news all around, for the anxious online poker player, state legislators and those companies getting ready to shuffle up and deal in the virtual world housed within the physical boundaries of Nevada.

All in all, it means that Nevada once again has all their ducks in a row in another important part of the ongoing history that state is making in United States online gaming. It also means that Nevada poker players could experience the first legalized online gaming allowed in the United States before the holiday season this year, as the initial wave of interactive gaming licensees in the Silver State could see approval of their Internet gaming process as early as this month.

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