April 7, 2016
Poker fans in New Jersey are in for a special treat next (May) month when Pokerstars launches a New Jersey-dedicated version of its popular Spring Championship of Online Poker. A company representative on the 2plus2 poker forum revealed this week that a draft schedule has been drawn up proposing 27 prize pool guaranteed tournaments with […]
April 5, 2016
Cash game traffic numbers from New Jersey show that the second week of Pokerstars operations in the Garden State has again yielding encouraging results, with the online poker giant maintaining its lead in the dedicated market and averaging 160 ring game players a day according to statistics from the Pokerscout independent online poker monitor. Over […]
March 27, 2016
The independent online monitor Pokerscout has given some insight into the immediate impact made by Pokerstars on its New Jersey debut last week, noting that preliminary numbers show that the industry giant boosted cash game traffic in the ring-fenced New Jersey market by around 20 percent…taking the average cash game numbers from 320 players up […]
March 21, 2016
Amaya Inc. subsidiary PokerStars, in partnership with Resorts Casino Hotel, is now officially live with online poker and casino offers in New Jersey following a soft launch last week (see previous reports). “We could not be more proud to bring PokerStars to New Jersey,” commented David Baazov, chairman and chief executive officer of Amaya. “Working […]
March 19, 2016
Judging by comments on player message boards and in the online industry media, it looks as if Pokerstars’ soft launch in New Jersey Wednesday has attracted a great deal of positive attention and is going well. There have inevitably been some complaints – that’s what the soft launch is designed to refine and eliminate – […]
March 10, 2016
Pokerstars has announced a change to its formal launch date in New Jersey of March 21, revealing that it will soft-launch in the Garden State next week on March 16. The soft launch characterisation enables the company to restrict the initial number of US$ players to just 500, with an 8-hour play limitation on the […]
February 26, 2016
Big news breaking late Thursday in a press release from parent Amaya Inc., is that Pokerstars has been approved to offer New Jersey online gambling fans all the action they can handle from March 21 this year. Pokerstars was last operational in the United States – under different ownership and management – in 2011, exiting […]
December 5, 2015
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement announced Thursday that it is considering a celebrity-based promotional scheme as a means of improving business for the online operators licensed in the state. The proposal is that licensed operators would be permitted to hire for reward celebrities to play on their online sites. The operator would provide […]
October 31, 2015
US poker players who used PokerStars before it was shuttered on Black Friday in 2011, but who have ignored repeated calls to claim any restricted funds in their accounts, received an interesting email from the company this week which observers believe may indicate the online poker giant is gearing up for a New Jersey launch. […]
October 2, 2015
Pokerstars’ land casino partner in New Jersey, Resorts Casino Hotel, issued a statement Thursday on the internet poker giant’s long-awaited success in obtaining an online gambling transactional waiver from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, saying that its subsidiary Resorts Digital looked forward to jointly developing a stronger online presence in the Garden State. […]