A week of ups and downs is the best to characterize the past seven days for the New Jersey online gambling industry. There is perhaps no better example of this roller coaster ride than the week the Borgata and their iGaming partner partypoker had; a perfect microcosm for the industry. The week started off with the partypoker cancelling their flagship Sunday tournament with just two tables remaining after “technical difficulties,” but then ended on a high note with the announcement […]

For any New Jersey online poker that has been having trouble funding their online poker account there is now an alternative option available. Neteller, one of the online gambling industry’s staple payment processors has announced it is now available in the US, and one online poker site wasted little time in adding Neteller to their payment processing options. Who was it? You can find out below. On top of the terrific news that Neteller is back in the US we’ll […]

It appears that New Jersey has finally come to grips with the realities of the potential revenue stream they will receive from their online gambling industry, as the state has revised its initial projections way, way down. Just how far down did they revise the numbers? You’ll find out below. This story will lead off this installment of the New Jersey Online Gambling Brief, but we’ve got a whole lot more to cover as well, including the massive $100k Guaranteed […]

New Jersey’s online gambling industry is on solid footing according to some of the world’s top analysts, and the market still has tremendous potential for further growth according to a recent poll that was conducted. Add it all up and the future looks very bright for NJ iGaming. In this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief I’ll take a look at these projections and polling data; discuss the Borgata’s online satellites to the World Poker Tour Championship that will be […]

For the second consecutive month the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement’s iGaming revenue reports have left analysts scratching their heads and trying to determine where the market is heading. The numbers for January, like those in December are in a gray area; neither overly promising nor overly disappointing, with no clear headlines to push, only speculation. But speculate we must, and I’ll be doing a little bit of that in this week’s installment of the New Jersey Online Gambling […]

While the state of New Jersey was busy with Super Bowl Week festivities and prepping for the big game, the online gambling industry in the state trudged along through the distractions, but not without some struggles, as traffic numbers experienced their first sharp decline since the NJ iGaming sites launched on November 26th. But there were plenty of good things happening too. In this installment of the New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll cover a number of these stories, starting […]

The full potential of the deal between partypoker and the New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia 76ers, and the Prudential Center is far from being realized, but visitors to these arenas are starting to get a first look at the innovative marketing ideas the deal is expected to bring about. In this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll take a look at these early marketing efforts of partypoker in New Jersey, as well as fill you in on how the licensed […]

It will be another week full of tournaments at New Jersey online poker rooms as the WSOP.com and NJ.PartyPoker.com host concurrent poker tournament festivals as the two sites battle for New Jersey supremacy. The first round in the fight took place on Sunday, and was a unanimous victory for WSOP.com, as they hosted a massive $250,000 Freeroll to kick-off their Online Championships tournament series, but will market leader partypoker have the last laugh with their Pokerfest series? In this week’s […]

Myself and my fellow followers of the US iGaming industry were kept quite busy this week as the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement dropped the first ever report on online gambling revenue in our laps, giving us plenty of numbers to crunch, data to extrapolate, and conclusions to be drawn. Fortunately for you, I’ll skip the boring stuff for you and just bring you the highlights in this column. But breaking-down data wasn’t the only thing keeping me busy. […]

The big story of the week was certainly the newly announced deal between partypoker and the New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers, but that wasn’t the only news coming out of the New Jersey iGaming market during the first few days of January. In addition to the historic deal, we also saw online poker traffic numbers surge forward since the calendar turned to 2014, as well as an appeal in the never-ending saga of the Atlantic Club. In this week’s […]