Senate Bill S8185 relates to interactive gaming
What is iLottery? Playing existing Powerball and scratch card games online or with a smartphone.
What is iGaming? Moving online land-based casinos and sports betting.
How will the state generate $1 billion new revenue when the law cannbalize income from land-based casinos and mom and pop lotto stores?
Governor Hochul even tapped Marissa Shorenstein, daughter of a major gambling lobbyist Stuart Shorenstein, to serve as a NYS Gaming Commission commissioner.
Welcome to Albany politics. Insiders win; citizens lose.
Update February 18, 2024. Bhav Tibrewal of Hotel & Gaming Trades Council