There is a lot going on in New Jersey and across the US when it comes to online gambling, but perhaps the biggest story of the week was State Senator Raymond Lesniak’s bombshell declaration that New Jersey would have sportsbetting next year, which he made at the recent East Coast Gaming Congress, telling attendees, “You can take that to the bank.” Lesniak’s remarks aren’t the only big news either. In this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll also let […]

Last month I wrote an article at Bluff.com where I opined that the licensed online poker rooms weren’t doing enough to differentiate themselves from unlicensed rooms and were simply recycling the advertising and marketing the industry has been using for the past decade. In my opinion, this is costing them players. In the article I made a number of suggestions including the idea to, “Get some local celebrities together for an ad campaign that shows them playing legal online poker,” […]

Welcome to technology week in New Jersey, as PokerStars got a nice little surprise from the US patent office for Zoom Poker, while partypoker unveiled a software update with a much needed improvement. In this week’s installment of the New Jersey Online gambling Brief we’ll take a look at both of these stories as well as a pair of competing interviews with Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson and Borgata CEO Tom Ballance that appeared on Bloomberg TV, the lack […]

After nearly six months 888 Poker has finally unveiled their New Jersey VIP Rewards Program. The site was one of the early surprises in the New Jersey market, coming out of the gate strong and challenging Borgata / Party and their cousin-site WSOP.com, despite the lack of a VIP Rewards Program and with one of the weaker tournament schedules in the market. 888 was helped by an innovative 80% rakeback promotion they offered their players in January (which just expired) […]

Another intriguing week is now in the books as New Jersey’s online gambling industry moves towards its six-month anniversary. One of the biggest stories is that opposition to Sheldon Adelson’s efforts to ban online gambling continues to grow and continues to become more vocal. In this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll start off by filling you in on the latest people to come out against Adelson’s crusade, before we move on to some Brick & Mortar headlines and […]

Between the Heartbleed bug and a more recently discovered exploit in Internet Explorer, online security has been a hot topic over the past couple weeks, and players are starting to ask questions regarding the security measures in place and the safety of their funds at online poker sites, where millions of dollars is stored. In this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll present you with some answers to those questions via security specialist Gus Fritschie who penned an article […]

Hey you! Take your eyes off of California for a minute, there is still plenty of news coming out of New Jersey this week that you’ll want to stay current on. So here is what you may have missed while you were focusing on the current goings on between PokerStars, the Morongos, and the rest of California’s gaming industry. First on the agenda this week is a little tournament called the WPT Championship that is currently going on at the […]

New Jersey’s online gambling industry is currently experiencing its first hiccup, as traffic numbers continue to slide in the market, but we can’t lose sight of the newness of the industry, and that these types of minor setbacks are to be expected. In this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll discuss the current slide, but we’ll also bring you some brighter news (not everything can be somber) as we examine the results of the CI poll conducted back in […]

New Jersey’s iGaming industry is fast approaching its five-month anniversary and things haven’t slowed down one single bit; in fact the industry is just as interesting, complicated, and unknown as it was the day it launched. As always we’ll try to make sense out of the stories, rumors, and gossip surrounding the online gambling industry in New Jersey, and try to bring some order to the chaos in this week’s New Jersey Online Gambling Brief. In this week’s column you’ll […]

We have a lot to get to this week, so I’ll dispense with the usual pleasantries and get right down to business. In this installment of the New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll fill you in on a much-desired software upgrade by 888 Poker that has NJ poker players standing up and cheering; we’ll breakdown the latest running of the $100k Guarantee at partypoker; we’ll show you how you can qualify for the World Series of Poker Circuit Series National […]