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 […]
September 7, 2016
The long drawn out saga of attempts to move Canada’s sports betting legislation into the 21st century with single game sports betting (see previous reports) will have another run on September 21 when bill C-221 is scheduled for a committee review in the House of Commons. Lawmakers on the Committee on Justice and Human Rights […]
September 1, 2016
For the ninth year running the legalisation of online poker has been denied to Californian poker fans. On Wednesday night members of the Legislature worked late in trying to pass last-minute measures before the midnight shutdown for this session, but Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill was not among those presented. Despite a patient effort to […]
August 26, 2016
Earlier this week the Sacramento Bee newspaper published a largely negative op-ed piece on internet poker legalisation titled “Gray’s internet poker bill is a losing hand,” prompting a clearly irritable riposte from California Assemblyman Adam Gray, who has – so far unsuccessfully – invested a significant amount of time in trying to create a consensus […]
August 21, 2016
With an end-August Californian Assembly adjournment ever closer, the news broke over the weekend that Assemblyman Adam Gray may be about to pull his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 from Monday’s much anticipated floor debate following intensified opposition to its latest amendments (see previous reports). Going into the weekend there was growing opposition – […]
August 20, 2016
The last-minute addition of a “bad actor” clause that would effectively exclude Pokerstars from Californian licensing for five years (see previous reports) has prompted the coalition of Pokerstars, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and California’s three largest card clubs – Commerce Casino, Hawaiian Gardens Casino and Bicycle […]
August 18, 2016
Latest reports in the LA Times on the controversial issue of legalised online poker in California are that the latest amendments to tax and bad actor provisions may have achieved a sufficient consensus to merit sending bill AB 2863 to the Assembly floor for voting – perhaps next Monday. The tax amendment reportedly changes the […]
August 12, 2016
Hopes that California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 online poker legalisation bill would be considered by the Assembly on Thursday after it was pulled from the agenda at the beginning of this week (see previous report) were dashed when Gray again failed to present the measure, citing a lack of support and continuing negotiations on the […]