Category Archives: New Jersey

New Jersey

Lesniak sees PokerStars entering New Jersey Early in 2015

Well, so much for New Jersey State Senator Ray Lesniak’s September prediction that PokerStars was “only a few weeks away” from getting in the Garden State. We’re now in 2015 – four months after Lesniak’s forecast to be exact – and there’s no word on when PokerStars will enter New Jersey…until now that is. When […]

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New Jersey iPoker to get Big Boost in Credit Card Acceptance Rates

Besides initial geolocation issues, one of the biggest problems that hampered the New Jersey iPoker market last year was credit card rejections. Specifically, only 73% of Visa transactions were approved at online gaming sites while just 44% of MasterCard transactions were accepted. Obviously this isn’t good and it serves as a huge turnoff to any […]

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PartyPoker New Jersey Resolves to make Significant Software Upgrades

The PartyPoker New Jersey / Borgata network isn’t waiting for the Times Square Ball to drop to make their New Year’s resolutions. Regarding their mobile client, they tweeted, “New Year’s resolution #1 – go mobile! Big upgrades coming in Jan.”

The network first rolled out their iOS and Android apps in November of 2013, with a less-than-enthusiastic response. The key issue was the lack of MTTs and SNGs, with the latter being added last summer. So it’s likely that Party is planning on adding MTTs as well in the New Year.

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Will Phil Ivey be the Face of Pala Interactive New Jersey?

Owned by California’s Pala Band of Mission Indians, Pala Interactive recently made their debut in the New Jersey online gaming market. There’s skepticism surrounding Pala’s ability to compete with better-established brands like WSOP.com and the Party Borgata network. But there’s also some optimism that they can carve a niche for themselves in New Jersey, given that Pala has an experienced iGaming CEO in Jim Ryan. One other possible benefit that they might have going for them – Phil Ivey.

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3 Factors working against Pala Interactive in New Jersey iGaming

There’s a new player in the New Jersey iGaming market – the California-based Pala Band of Mission Indians. They’ll be operating under the Pala Interactive brand and will partner up with Borgata – although they won’t be on the Party Borgata network. This is exciting news seeing as how the Pala Band is the first Indian tribe involved with New Jersey online gaming. Unfortunately, it’s hard to envision them having much success in the market, and here are three reasons why.

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PokerStars New Jersey not likely until 2015

Ever since September, when New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak hinted that PokerStars was coming to the Garden State, players there have been eagerly anticipating Stars’ arrival. Unfortunately, it looks like that arrival will take much longer than anticipated. As reported by PokerFuse, the review of PokerStars’ gaming application likely won’t happen until next year.

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Nevada

New Jersey & Nevada Shared Online Poker Pool

Back in February, Delaware and Nevada formed a pact to share their online poker pools. This was a landmark deal because Delaware and Nevada became the first two states to agree on sharing player liquidity. But while this was definitely a joyous time in US online gaming history, one thing was noticeably missing from the agreement: New Jersey.

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$1m Garden State Super Series Schedule Finalized

Partypoker and the Borgata New Jersey have released the official schedule for their Garden State Super Series (GSSS), which will guarantee $1 million in prize money. The GSSS is set to run from September 7th – 21st, with 20 events divided up into low, middle and high buy-in tournaments (60 total). Additionally, there will also […]

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Ultimate Poker CEO’s 5 Reasons US Gaming Will Explode

If anybody has reason to be worried about the way that their company is going in the US online poker market, it’s Ultimate Poker Chairman Tom Breitling. In New Jersey, Ultimate’s revenue fell from $100k in March to $50k in April. Ultimate Poker’s first full year in Nevada hasn’t exactly gone great either since the […]

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