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The New York Senate voted 53 to 5 for a fully regulated and licensed online poker market in the state. Interested observers were excited, and rightly so – that’s a wide margin. The landslide even caused some poker prophets to suggest the bill might pass this side of 2016.

Everything was going online poker’s way. Especially, as legislation to pass similar laws for Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) were also flying through the legal system like The Flash on speed.

And then came the Assembly – the big moment.