Having passed Nevada’s stringent requirements for an online poker licence last year, the Reno-based Monarch Casino and Resort will not be using it due to fears that online poker may be the foot-in-the-door that could lead to full-on internet gambling, an executive of the company said Monday.

Nevada casinos went into February facing a comparison to the state’s largest gaming revenue month in almost five years and a baccarat revenue month that was an all-time record.

More than four months after the launch of Internet gambling in New Jersey, operators in the developing industry are approaching their first deadlines for creating jobs in the state.

A war over online gambling is about to spill out in Congress as opponents move to restore a long-standing Internet gambling ban and block Uncle Sam from creating a sprawling new federal department to police the web.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would ban most forms of online gambling, ratcheting up a lobbying battle that pits casinos and state lotteries against GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) today introduced their bipartisan legislation, Restoration of America’s Wire Act, which restores the long-standing interpretation of the Wire Act and reverses the Department of Justice’s abrupt December 2011 decision to expand online gaming.