'Where previously we had made the statement that we would make a decision on it by the end of the year. This spring, the Gaming Commission began to take notice of the 10-fold increase in complaints about the lack of legal poker in the Bay State.īoth casinos said they would make decisions about the future of poker by the end of the year. The state's two casinos - MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor - were freed of nearly all COVID-19 restrictions and resumed mostly normal operations in late May without offering poker, which had been prohibited by the commission when regulators first allowed the casinos to reopen under health and safety restrictions last year.
