The road to Nevada online poker to residents of other states is long and tortuous and gaming regulators took a step in that journey Wednesday when the state Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop meeting on a proposal for companies to offer progressive jackpots across state lines.

The state’s largest slot machine manufacturers — International Game Technology and Bally Technologies — petitioned the Nevada Gaming Commission to amend regulations to allow multi-jurisdictional progressive prizes.

Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett concurred that adoption of the amendments to the regulation could be viewed as a first step toward developing online poker across state lines. “You might say we’d be sticking our toe in the water,” Burnett said of the proposal.

With great fanfare, Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation approved early in the Nevada Legislature’s 2013 session paving the way for writing regulations that would enable play by people outside the state. People can already play poker online if they’re within the state’s borders, and Station Casinos is the only company that has been licensed and is operating an Internet poker site through its Ultimate Poker brand. Several other companies are on the verge of licensing and starting play.

Station hasn’t disclosed how much revenue it has generated with its intrastate online poker games, but Sandoval said it has done “extremely well.” You can read more about the proposals for Nevada online poker at Vegas Inc.