Year after year, New York online poker keeps getting pushed back. The state’s inability to pass an online gaming bill has been vexing.

Legislation has breezed through the NY Senate on multiple occasions, only to run into an invisible brick wall in the lower chamber. Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, the key lawmaker on gaming issues, has offered a carousel of excuses to explain the Assembly’s inaction.

With the state poised to take on sports betting in 2019, online poker will almost certainly get another look. Just don’t expect the two issues to commingle. That’s something Pretlow is not a fan of doing; he prefers clean bills. And like Michigan, New York online poker is losing its champion, Sen. John Bonacic, to retirement.

Once again, you can expect to see online gambling bills pop up all over the country in 2019. Legislation has previously been introduced in some of the most-populous US states, and several of those are likely to take another swing at online casino and/or poker.

Furthermore, with sports betting (and online sports betting) a likely topic of discussion in dozens of others, there’s a good chance online gambling will be thrown into the mix in some new locales.

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