When I heard that South Point Poker,, LLC, had been awarded the first license as an online poker provider in Nevada, I was immediately curious about the company: who were the people making this historic step? Everyone knows Michael Gaughan, but I had a feeling he wasn’t coding the site in his spare time. So I talked to SPP COO Lawrence Vaughan, and the result was this week’s Green Felt Journal:
On Aug. 23, the Nevada Gaming Commission approved the South Point’s application to run a legal online poker room—the first Nevada casino to be granted such a license. We are on the cusp of writing history. So what’s really going on with the operation, which will probably start accepting real money bets on poker before Halloween?
This really is historic. I know that word’s thrown around too much in Las Vegas sometimes, but Vaughan and company are doing something that’s never been done before (in Nevada).
And I resisted rhyming or otherwise getting cute with “Gaughan” and “Vaughan.”