Nevada may be the first state in the US to authorize hotel casinos to use handheld gambling devices. Dennis Neilander, the State Gaming Control Board Chairman says that the boards parent state Gaming Commission will discuss those regulations in January and reach the final approval in February or March.
Though the regulation was not approved yet, some companies already expressed their interest in this new opportunity. Including Cantor G&W (Nevada) LP, the associates of Cantor Fitzgerald LP financial services company from New York, FortuNet Inc., a gambling device company from Las Vegas and Diamond I Inc. from Louisiana. They all hope that the handheld gambling devices can help the Nevada casinos in the competition against the online casinos and the growth of the Indian casinos.
The handheld devices will be connected to a central casino server that its job is to confirm that the gambler is the person who signed out from the casino. Supporters of this regulation hope that those devices can put a stop to the work in disallowed areas, and will cause gamblers to set up limits by funding money in the account in advanced. In addition, the devices can keep problem gamblers from losing control on the game. According to Bill Bible, the head of the Nevada Resort Association, the key to the devices success, after state authorization, is the customers approval.
