This week’s poker news round up brings you up to speed on online poker’s chances in New York, the creme of the crop coming up trumps on the World Series of Poker Circuit, and much more.

Is the Big Apple going to be the next American State to regulate and legalise online poker?

I’m more likely to guess the winning numbers of the lottery, but we do know that New York’s Senate has approved a budget proposal containing the possibility of leveraging an online poker market to raise some new beans.

On Monday, both the Assembly and Senate begin chopping both budgets down to one. It’s anybody’s guess whether online poker will make the cut. If you believe there is more chance of a lumberjack getting a job in Atlantis, then at least if it happens it will feel like Christmas.