{"id":17687,"date":"2016-02-03T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17687"},"modified":"2016-02-03T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:55:37","slug":"new-york-deals-itself-in-on-i-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/new-york-deals-itself-in-on-i-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"New York deals itself in on i-poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9ohlf2Nz0E\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A bill to legalize <strong>Internet<\/strong> poker in <strong>New York State<\/strong> advanced unanimously out of the state <strong>Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming &amp;\u00a0Wagering<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardplayer.com\/poker-news\/19951-new-york-online-poker-bill-advances\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">That&#8217;s the easy part<\/a>. It now goes to the <strong>Finance Committee<\/strong>, where tougher <!--more-->questions may be asked. However, the bill has a couple of things going. For one, <strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong>&#8216;s serious flirtation with i-gaming lends a certain urgency to the issue. For another, revenue projections for online poker are pegged at $120 million, a more realistic number than the pie-in-the-sky projections that dazzled other states into legalizing it. However, New York is still months &#8212; if not years &#8212; from opening its next round of terrestrial casino, so legislators may decide the Internet poker is premature until brick-and-mortar options have been exhausted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to legalize Internet poker in New York State advanced unanimously out of the state Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming &amp;\u00a0Wagering. That&#8217;s the easy part. It now goes to the Finance Committee, where tougher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,101,95,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17688,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}