Online Gambling News

PalaCasino.com Updates NJ Casino Interface And Adds 27 New Games

PalaCasino.com has rolled out a slew of new games for New Jersey online casino players, in addition to upgrading its interface for improved user experience. Read More

Posted on: March 26, 2015 | | Daniel Smyth

Legal Online Gambling In New Jersey: Sorting Fact From Fiction

A debunking of three of the most common myth surrounding NJ online casinos and internet poker rooms. Learn the facts about legal New Jersey online gambling. Read More

Posted on: March 25, 2015 | | Daniel Smyth

online gambling NJ revenue February 2015

$1.5M Jackpot Fails To Take A Bite Out Of February NJ Online Gambling Revenue

The February revenue numbers for New Jersey online casinos and internet poker are out. They are impressive despite a big jackpot payout by Betfair Casino. Read More

Posted on: March 13, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

888 Is Offering New Jersey Poker Players A Free $30 No Deposit Bonus

888 Poker is offering New Jersey online poker players the largest no deposit bonus available in the regulated NJ online poker market and with easy terms. Read More

Posted on: March 11, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

Here’s The Math Behind Betfair’s $1.5 Million New Jersey Winner

An incredible story came out of the New Jersey regulated online gaming industry this week. A player won $1.5 million at Betfair. It was not at slots. The game that awarded the massive jackpot was Let it Ride. Let it Ride is a five-card poker game where hands are paid based on the rank. Players […] Read More

Posted on: February 25, 2015 | | PlayNJ Staff

Barstool Online Poker Tournament at partypoker NJ Triples Guarantee

Barstool Sports and partypoker New Jersey have entered into an agreement that will see partypoker host a monthly Barstool online poker tournament in New Jersey. The partnership was announced following the second Barstool online poker tournament on February 18th. The partnership shouldn’t be much of a surprise considering Wednesday night’s tournament was a $20 buy-in […] Read More

Posted on: February 24, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

Barstool Sports Online Poker Tournaments are the Outside the Box Marketing NJ Needs

On February 18, 2015 NJ.PartyPoker.com and Barstool Sports will play host to what on the surface seems like little more than pedestrian $20 buy-in, $500 Guaranteed online poker tournament. Sure, there will also be a $100 bounty on the head of Barstool founder Dave “ElPresidente” Portnoy. There will also be free Barstool gear for people […] Read More

Posted on: February 18, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

What Happens to Online Gambling in NJ if RAWA Passes?

On Wednesday Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) reintroduced the Restoration of America’s Wire Act into the U.S. House of Representatives. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he will introduce a similar bill in the U.S. Senate this year as well. Chaffetz and Graham first introduced RAWA into Congress in March of 2014, which many people believe was […] Read More

Posted on: February 5, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

Nearly $1.5M Awarded as Party Poker GSSS II Tournament Series Exceeds Expectations

Back in September of 2014, the first installment of partypoker New Jersey’s Garden State Super Series (GSSS) awarded over $1,000,000 in prize money, but will likely be best remembered for an ill-timed software crash that interrupted the tournament series’ main events, marring what was otherwise a very successful online tournament series. Still, the series was […] Read More

Posted on: February 3, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

Shared Liquidity Vaults WSOP/888 Cash Game Traffic Into #1 Spot

Caesars and 888 Holdings decided to combine their player pools at select cash game and tournament tables earlier this year, and the combination of US.888Poker.com and WSOP.com is already paying dividend. The new network has left PartyPoker/Borgata in the dust, with WSOP/888 now leading Party/Borgata by 35%, according to the tracking site PokerScout.com. PokerScout.com lists […] Read More

Posted on: January 27, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

Year 1 of New Jersey Online Gaming Revenue a Mixed Bag

2014 is officially in the books, and the final numbers from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement have been released, and the takeaways can best be described as varied during the first full year of New Jersey’s online gambling industry. The numbers In 2014 New Jersey iGaming operators tallied a total of $123,061,981 in […] Read More

Posted on: January 20, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

NJ Senator Lesniak: PokerStars Coming in March 2015

PokerStars may be arriving on the shores of New Jersey by the end of Q1 2015 according to New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak. After seeing the Senator responding to New Jersey’s sports betting case on Twitter on Friday evening Chris Grove took a shot and asked the Senator how PokerStars license application was progressing. […] Read More

Posted on: January 13, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

Highlights from GamblingCompliance iGaming Report

Last week the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (NJ DGE) released a 2014 year-end review of iGaming in the state, and now industry analysts GamblingCompliance have done likewise. The two reports generally paint the same picture of the first full year of online gambling in New Jersey, but do so in very different ways […] Read More

Posted on: January 12, 2015 | | Steve Ruddock

888 and WSOP.com Combine Poker Player Pools

888 and WSOP.com will share some of their players at the tables. The two sites will combine platforms on Monday, January 12, 2015. Lower limit cash games and sit and gos will be the first games to share players. There will also be $130,000 in weekly guaranteed tournaments available to players on both sites. The […] Read More

Posted on: January 12, 2015 | | PlayNJ Staff

DGE Gives Report on First Year of Regulated Gaming

David Rebuck, Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, published a nine-page letter outlining the positives and the negatives of the first full year of New Jersey regulated internet gaming. He also gave an outlook on what may change in 2015. Rebuck starts by going through some history of the legislative and regulatory […] Read More

Posted on: January 8, 2015 | | PlayNJ Staff