A quick summary of progress of online poker bills in New York and Kentucky, and an online casino bill in West Virginia.

Providing updates on the progress of online poker in the United States of America makes me want to put myself up for adoption. Sometimes, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, so with likely close to zero chance of any more states giving online poker the green light in the foreseeable future, here goes.

We begin in New York, and Flushdraw’s Haley Hintze has pointed out that New York State Assembly member, Gary Pretlow, has tabled a new online poker bill (A4924). Using the word ‘new’ is overreaching after Hintze mentions that it’s the same bill that failed to make traction the last time Pretlow submitted it.

The New York Committee on Racing and Wagering has given the bill the thumbs up, but Pretlow is the chairman of that committee. The modus operandi is the same with Pretlow’s paperwork trying to prove to the sceptics that Justin Bonomo needed more than luck to win $44m playing poker.