And i agree if its the highest in the country nobody will care. Might have to play higher stakes to make it more worth the while
Raises another question, what stakes will time start at and what will time be? If rake is 10% with $10+ cap, who’s to say they won’t make 5/10 a rake game, or make time $20/hh?
One of the agenda items is revising the RFA adding dates to the timeline:
• applications due 6/30/25
• CAC deadline 9/30/25
• recommendations to commission 12/1/25
• "Commission licensure consideration" 12/31/25
I guess that means Hochul has signed, or they're assuming she will. Or they just want the appearance that they're doing something. There doesn't appear to be anything about answering the second round of questions that they've been sitting on for eight months.
What a joke this state is. Only 18 months away from considering giving someone a license, then another year or two for an official opening/re-opening. Can we just assume at least by 2030 there might be table games in down state NY (and hope it includes poker)?
I’m still holding out hope that cards can hit the air summer 2026, and that it’s a near lock at least RW has poker. I have no logical defense for my hope.
Also holding out maybe panic about delayed/lost revenue from congestion pricing pushes this and the online process along but you know, probably not lol
What a joke this state is. Only 18 months away from considering giving someone a license, then another year or two for an official opening/re-opening. Can we just assume at least by 2030 there might be table games in down state NY (and hope it includes poker)?
The eventual licensees will be required (by the authorizing law) to begin gaming operations within two years of licensing. Which I imagine will be problematic for all of the bids that involve building something from scratch. (And doubly so for the Wynn proposal, which would stand on a deck over the rail yards that doesn't exist yet.)
The eventual licensees will be required (by the authorizing law) to begin gaming operations within two years of licensing. Which I imagine will be problematic for all of the bids that involve building something from scratch. (And doubly so for the Wynn proposal, which would stand on a deck over the rail yards that doesn't exist yet.)
Can they do something like what Bally's has done in Chicago and set up a "temporary casino" while the full one is being built? Would that work as a loophole here?
Can they do something like what Bally's has done in Chicago and set up a "temporary casino" while the full one is being built? Would that work as a loophole here?
I'd guess they would have to. It just says they have to begin operations, not that construction has to be finished. Otherwise they'd have to get the legislature to pass an extension. And why not get some money coming in sooner rather than later.
