I don't understand why everyone is so satisfied with merge?

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hopefully this passes on a federal level and not just state law, new york will never allow online pokers

Why?

Curious, because if you're as sure as I am about Utah that New York "will never allow online pokers", I don't see what would stop them from opting out once a Federal bill is passed, and that's a hella big player pool. Would really like to know why you think that. I've never heard that about NY.

NY will certainly allow online poker at some point, it's just very difficult getting anything passed in NY as it is the most corrupt state - it's not like New Yorkers have some sort of moral objection that will prevent it from happening. By the same token, if they passed a Federal bill with an opt-out, NY would never opt out because they'd never be able to pass anything.

As far as the guy talking about powerball, that's a totally separate issue. NY already had lotto and was making plenty of money on it before powerball came along. You might be able to argue that it would be a while before NY joined some sort of state collective of poker sites, but once they see the green they will certainly authorize it for intra-state play.

Intrastate would suck pretty bad for the small ones.

I assumed most of this as well, but if Federal fails to pass, you think NY would put up NY only sites rather than latch on to another state's existing sites. That would take a whole lot more legislation and regulation.

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^^He already did, keep reading thread or

Lol. Owned x2.

Well lets first hope that they can change the state constitution like Cuomo wants to do.

What are you talking about? New York's attempt to build full scale land based casinos?

I was just saying that before we can think about online poker in NYS we have to wait for the constitution to be amended to allow gambling (which will hopefully happen sometime this year).

The competition for that honor is greater than you may imagine.

True, so please explain how many states you think want to legalize poker sites and why they are so slow.

Now THIS on the other hand, is news that makes me all gitty.

You're wrong. Again. Please. Stop. Posting. (unless it's something you do actually know something about)