New York online poker bill dies of neglect for second year in a row

New York’s legal online poker hopes appear to have died of neglect in the state Assembly for the second year in a row.

The New York state legislature wrapped up the final day of its legislative session on Wednesday without the Assembly taking any action on the online poker bill the state Senate approved last week.

Some other, more important issues also went unresolved, and lawmakers suggested they may reconvene for a brief period this summer to address issues like mayoral control over New York City schools, but the Assembly’s inaction certainly appears to have doomed Sen. John Bonacic’s S-3898 poker bill to the ash heap of history and the state’s online poker players to (at least) another year of legal limbo.

The Assembly’s reluctance to tackle the online poker issue was telegraphed earlier this week when Assemblyman Gary Pretlow told the New York Daily News that there’d been “some opposition” to the poker bill coming up for a vote.