Last week, gambling regulators in Nevada voted to permit the world’s biggest casino organization to join forces with a online gambling company located offshore.

Looks like Internet gambling may really be coming to the U.S. after all. As politicos debate (or bury) the issue in Congress and various states’ legislatures, in one U.S. state known for gambling, Nevada of course, one of the world’s most popular land-based casino is about to take the lead in legal online casino gambling in the U.S.

It should comes as no surprise that the company behind Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas was the one getting the okay to engage in business with an offshore online gambling operation.

Approving the business tie between 888 Holdings PLC, of 888Casino.com, among other Internet gambling operations, and Caesar’s Entertainment Corp of Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas, the Nevada Gaming Commission set a precedent for what is surely to be a tidal shift in favor of legal online gambling in the United States.

Does this mean that Caesar’s Palace plans to open an online casino in the U.S. with or without federal government approval? Not likely. But what it does mean is that when online casino gambling in the U.S. does become legal, as all odds suggest it inevitably will, Caesar’s will be poised to not only be the world’s largest land-based casino company but the largest online casino operation in the United States as well.

Nevada may be taking the lead in getting online casino gambling legalized for U.S. players, but they’re not alone. Coming up closely behind them is the state that boasts one of the other major casino gambling capitals of the country and the world, New Jersey, where Atlantic City operations are making strides in the same direction, and with most favorably responses from those in authority.