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 […]

As we ring in the New Year and get over the holiday doldrums it appears the New Jersey online gambling market will continue to grow even bigger and better in 2014, considering that even during the “slow” period of late December the market continued to grow. In this week’s installment of the New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll take a look at several important stories that occurred during the holidays, beginning with PokerStars first public statements regarding its failed attempt […]

Despite the holiday season, and people running around searching for those last minute gifts, there was a lot of news coming out of New Jersey during the Christmas week. The big news story of the week turned out to be the winning bid for the Atlantic Club Casino given the final judicial approval, which will see the storied casino’s doors closed on January 13, 2014, ending a 30+ year run by the casino. In this installment of the New Jersey […]

It’s been yet another busy week in the world of New Jersey iGaming. Most notable among the headlines was the Golden Nugget finally getting the green light from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, so the Nugget is now fully cleared to offer online gambling in the Garden State. But that’s not all that happened. We’ll also fill you in on the latest news on the Atlantic Club Casino auction, a few technical difficulties experienced by WSOP.com this week, […]

The big news in New Jersey this week was Wednesday’s revelation by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement that PokerStars’ license application would be put on the shelf for two years unless serious changes take place inside the company. In this week’s edition of the New Jersey Online Gambling Brief we’ll fill you in on where PokerStars now stands in NJ; recap Tuesday’s Congressional hearing on online poker and why it was a massive victory for online gambling advocates; […]

Caesars, the Borgata, and several other casinos are firing on all cylinders in the New Jersey Internet gambling market, but several other potential online gambling providers have fallen by the wayside. In this column I’ll take a look at the casinos that have been left behind in New Jersey’s burgeoning online poker market. Who is missing? Resorts Casino and PokerStars may be the most high-profile partnership that has failed to get off the ground in New Jersey, but they are […]

With online poker in New Jersey just a few weeks old, an unknown player has already left his mark at NJ.PartyPoker.com by winning the site’s Sunday $50k Guaranteed Tournament two weeks in a row. Party Poker has hosted this tournament twice and a New Jersey online poker player using the name “MikeyCasino” has prevailed both times, but as you’ll see below, “MikeyCasino’s” run at a third victory will likely be much harder as the Party Poker Sunday $50k Guarantee in […]

This week’s edition of the New Jersey Online Gambling Brief has a little bit of everything, from big overlays in the weekly guaranteed tournament at Party Poker, to the rekindling of federal online gambling talks in Congress. Below you’ll find a comprehensive rundown of everything going in the New Jersey Internet Gaming industry. Jersey players see massive overlays at Party Poker It was a great weekend for tournament poker players in New Jersey, with Party Poker’s $50k guaranteed tournament boasting […]

Online payment processing and specifically eWallets have been a hot topic of conversation in the New Jersey online gambling market both in a positive and negative way. For those of you interested in how eWallets work, and why the two industries are indelibly intertwined, here is a look at the longstanding relationship between online gambling sites and eWallets. Two industries with a tenuous but interdependent relationship Since its earliest days, online poker has relied on eWallets (online payment processors) to […]