September 10, 2014
Industry journalist Steve Ruddock, writing for the online poker information site Online Poker Report this week, takes readers on an interesting trip behind the scenes of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Technical Services Bureau via an interview with bureau technical chief Eric Weiss. Ruddock observes that the process through which regulated online poker […]
September 10, 2014
PokerStars reached out to its former PokerStars VIP poker players residing in New Jersey earlier this week, inviting them to attend two PokerStars hosted “Open House” discussions. Two unnamed members of PokerStars management were to be in attendance, inviting feedback on any topics or concerns former VIP players might have presumably in anticipation of PokerStars’ […]
September 3, 2014
In preparation for the inaugural Garden State Super Series at New Jersey-regulated online poker site nj.partypoker.com, Bwin.Party has delivered a product release that makes significant improvements to the user experience and focuses on cage transfers, mobile geolocation, rebuys and add-ons, lobby and tournament tickets. The GSSS, which takes place September 7-21 alongside the televised WPT […]
August 20, 2014
Assemblyman Ralph R. Caputo, a Democrat and the deputy majority whip and chair of the New Jersey House of Assembly’s Tourism, Gaming and Arts Committee, launched a vicious attack on Pokerstars Tuesday, perhaps motivated by growing reports that under its new Amaya Gaming ownership, the world’s biggest and most successful online poker operator has ambitions […]
May 18, 2014
The World Series of Poker is to achieve further brand awareness in New Jersey following the announcement Saturday that the brand’s online poker platform WSOP.com is to host a new competition in which New Jersey mayors play for charity. WSOP.com will host its inaugural New Jersey Mayor’s Poker Tournament on May 22 as part of […]
April 22, 2014
Breaking a decade-long tradition of holding its prestigious championship event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the World Poker Tour has moved the epic competition to the Borgata in New Jersey, where online gambling was legalised late last year, and Borgata leads the field. On Monday the $15,000 buy-in competition, which carries a $5 million […]
April 5, 2014
One of Sheldon Adelson’s allies in the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, and a well-known anti-online gambling activist, Florida software engineer Jim Thackston presented the latest op-ed supporting federal banning of online gambling Friday, attacking online poker in the Washington DC publication The Hill. In an op-ed piece clearly designed to influence federal lawmakers in […]
April 1, 2014
With talk of “bad actor” exclusions seemingly a top trend among online gambling supporters and enemies this week, an influential New Jersey state senator entered the fray by observing that although the decision rested with the state regulator, foreign applicant Pokerstars should not be excluded from being approved to operate in the Garden State’s new […]
January 31, 2014
Rising interest in legalised New Jersey online poker has seen tens of thousands of New Jersey poker fans attracted to a millionaire online tournament organised by Party Poker.com and Borgata Poker.com and set to climax in a live eight-player final table at the Borgata this week, according to press material from the organisers. The eight […]
January 27, 2014
The reasons have not been fully explained, and the motivation is not yet clear, but according to a growing number of player posts on leading poker forums like twoplustwo, it appears that the Merge poker network is excluding both new sign ups and existing players who come from the states of New Jersey and Delaware. […]