August 5, 2016
With the California legislature back at work the future of Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 online poker legalisation bill is again attracting attention, with Gray’s chief of staff Trent Hager claiming that the bill will go to the Assembly floor as early as next Monday, perhaps as part of a drive to legalise daily fantasy […]
July 6, 2016
The failure of Assemblyman Adam Gray to push forward his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 for a vote on the California state Assembly floor on June 30 has been explained… in a last-minute tally of political support he determined that he would be just short of the two thirds vote he needed under legislative […]
July 1, 2016
The euphoria over the passage out of committee stage of California’s online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 (see previous reports) started to fade as the week came to an end with no floor vote in the California Assembly and time running out. The Assembly adjourns today (Friday) and returns at the end of July for […]
June 26, 2016
The online publication Flushdraw took a closer look at the recently released Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) poll, which purported to show that Californians are not in favour of legalised online poker, and expressed reservations over the accuracy of the findings. Our readers will recall that the FM3 study was commissioned by the […]
June 21, 2016
The chief tribal opponents of current online poker legislative proposals in California have resorted to a resident telephone poll in their latest attack, hiring an independent firm which delivered the sort of results they presumably wanted. The Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, the Barona Band of Mission Indians […]
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 16, 2016
Uncertainty created by unpublished proposed amendments temporarily stalled Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 intrastate online poker legalisation bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday, dashing hopes of rapid progress to a floor vote for now at least. On the bright side, it appears likely that the measure will be revisited within the next week […]
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 […]