New Jersey May Allow Overseas Online Gambling
Having been instrumental in introducing online gambling to New Jersey, State Senator Ray Lesniak is now seeking to increase the scope of those games by re-introducing a bill that would allow licensed online gambling operators to offer their products to people located outside of New Jersey, or even the United States. New Jersey to offer […]
California Regulated Online Poker By 2015?
California is the most populous state in the US with around 38 million residents, and as such has the potential to become the biggest player in America’s newly regulated online poker environment. California online poker worth $384m within 10 years Thus far, just Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey have launched statewide real-money online poker, but […]
Pennsylvania Considers Allowing Legalized Online Gambling
According to online gambling consulting company, Spectrum Gaming Group, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and another nine US states might approve Internet gambling either this year or in 2015. As Spectrum Gaming Group founder Fred Gushin, explains: “There’s intense competition in that part of the country. It’s something that will be considered not only by Pennsylvania but […]
Major Banks Refuse to Approve Online Gambling Transactions
Back in 2013, three US states consisting of Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware legalized online poker but despite the regulated sites running pretty smoothly since then, some of the big banks are still continuing to refuse credit and debit card transactions. In fact, major financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan Chase, American Express, and Wells […]
Full Tilt Poker Adds Casino Games To Their Lineup
In July 2013, Full Tilt Poker announced that in addition to offering real money online poker, it also intended to eventually add real money casino games to its core product. At the time, the statement was received with some surprise as it marked the first time Full Tilt and PokerStars’ parent company, Rational Group, expressed […]
Online Poker 2013: A Year in Review
In just a couple of weeks the year 2013 will come to a close. It’s hard to believe how fast time flew by. Equally as surprising are all the events that took place in (online) poker over the last 12 months. A lot happened between state laws, intrastate poker, remissions from Black Friday and PokerStars […]
NJ Suspends PokerStars Application, Leaves Them With Few Outs
PokerStars received another disappointing blow this past week. Following the official launch of legal online poker in New Jersey, which PokerStars was not apart of, they received word from the NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement that their application was suspended for 2 years. The application was suspended for several reasons, but primarily because of PokerStars […]
