February 26, 2017
Optimism on the prospect of online poker legalisation in New York surged over the weekend following a television interview in which key Assembly lawmaker Gary Pretlow spoke encouragingly about the possibilities and revealed that he had filed a legalisation bill, supplementing that filed in the Senate earlier this year by Sen. John Bonacic (see previous […]
February 16, 2017
New York state Sen. John Bonacic’s bill S 3898, introduced at the end of last month in the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee (see previous InfoPowa report) was approved on an 11-0 vote Wednesday and now moves to the Finance Committee for a vote. InfoPowa readers will recall that a similar bill by the […]
February 8, 2017
Following discussions between New York Assembly gambling committee chairman Rep. Gary Pretlow and the neighbouring New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement regulator, A05250 was introduced to the Assembly earlier this week. The bill, sponsored by Pretlow, is described the “same as” S03898, a bill re-submitted earlier this month to the legislature by State Senator John […]
February 2, 2017
Senator John J. Bonacic has again thrown his hat into the ring with the introduction of an online gambling bill to the New York Senate’s Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, a committee Bonacic chairs. In summary, S3898 allows certain interactive poker games be considered games of skill rather than games of luck; includes definitions, authorization, […]
January 31, 2017
New York state Senator John Bonacic has made good on his pledge to start 2017 with a renewed attempt to legalise online poker, filing Senate Bill S-3898 this week in the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, which he chairs. Observers have noted that the bill is very similar to last year’s S-5302 authored by […]
January 20, 2017
Optimism that online poker may again be on the cards in New York state rose this week following reports of discussions between Assembly gambling committee chairman Rep. Gary Pretlow and the neighbouring New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement e-gaming regulator, which apparently created a positive impression. InfoPowa readers may recall that legalisation looked imminent last […]
June 20, 2016
The dramatic news over the weekend that daily fantasy sports had been legalised in a last-gasp legislative effort in New York (see previous reports) focuses the spotlight on internet poker, which passed in the state Senate but did not make it through the Assembly due an inability by proposer Rep. Gary Pretlow to garner sufficient […]
June 17, 2016
Online poker legalisation supporters remained on tenterhooks late Thursday, waiting hopefully for news that somehow New York Assembly lawmakers had managed to vote for regulated and licensed online poker, emulating their opposite numbers in the Senate earlier this week (see previous reports). In the meantime, observers pointed out that the last chance saloon could be […]
June 16, 2016
The euphoria over Sen. John Bonacic’s achievement earlier this week in pushing an online poker legalisation bill through the New York state Senate on a vote of 53 vs. 5 (see previous reports) has quickly been replaced with a sense of pessimism over the measure’s chances in the state Assembly. On Wednesday Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, […]
June 15, 2016
The New York State Senate voted Tuesday to regulate and licence intrastate online poker, passing Sen. John Bonacic’s S. 5302 proposal on a 53 to 5 positive vote in an evening sitting. The bill allows the state’s 11 racetrack casinos to apply for 11 licenses to hold online poker games, and now moves to the […]