
Ny State’s internet poker bill sailed through the Senate Finance Committee on and now heads to the Senate floor for debate, and ultimately, we hope, a vote tuesday.
Senator John Bonacic’s online poker bill would legalize hold’em and omaha, specifically, but it still possesses long and journey that is perilous Governor Cuomo’s desk.
Senator John Bonacic’s (R-42nd) bill, S 3898, would legalize poker that is online a game of skill, or particularly hold’em and omaha, which are considered by the senator, apparently, to be the most skillful variations.
While that point may be ripe for debate, there was no pre-vote discussion at the committee on Tuesday, whose users approved the bill by 27-9.
While encouraging news for brand New York poker players whom believe it really is their birthright to remotely check-raise the residing hell out of one another, the bill’s approval here should come as little surprise. It is the Assembly we have to be worried about.
Last year, S3898’s predecessor was approved emphatically in a full Senate vote, by way of a 53-5 margin, and there’s no reason to think that Bonacic can’t secure support that is similar an almost identical bill this year.
In the Assembly, though, it had been a story that is different. It came unstuck miserably in the lower house; in reality, it wasn’t even debated, with its sponsor Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (D-89th) at one point wondering out loud Continue reading “New York Online Poker Bill Clears Senate Finance Committee, But Tougher Tests Await”