Casino City's iGaming Pocket Directory - 2014 Edition

130 Sponsored by Casino City’s iGaming Pocket Directory UNITED STATES The year 2013 will always be a landmark year in American online gaming history. Just as 2006 (the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) and 2011 (Black Friday indictments of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and UB/Absolute Poker) will always be remembered, so will 2013 – because that is the year three states in the US began regulating intrastate online gambling. That’s gambling contained by the borders of one state. Gambling that includes wagers that cross state lines (interstate) – with the exceptions of fantasy sports and horse racing – remains illegal. As of press time, three states license, regulate, and permit intrastate online gaming – Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware. New Jersey, the most populous of the three states with an estimated 8,899,339 residents in 2013, allowed Atlantic City casinos to launch real-money online gaming on November 26, 2013. Online casinos in New Jersey must have their servers located in an Atlantic City casino and are permitted to offer any game played in the casino. As of press time, more than 150,000 real-money online gaming accounts had been created with New Jersey operators. Delaware, which launched real-money online gaming on October 31 (Happy Halloween!), acquired about 2,800 players in its first month of operation. And those players wagered $3.8 million in that time frame, according to the Delaware Lottery. Like New Jersey, Delaware offers the full suite of casino games online. But because Delaware has an estimated 2013 population of 925,749, it is actively seeking out partners to pool liquidity with poker. US law currently allows states to form compacts – which are essentially agreements between two individual states. The lotteries in the US use compacts to share player liquidity and build massive jackpots. The same would be true in poker. Players in Delaware would be allowed to compete against players in a state that has signed a compact with Delaware. The compact would govern issues like regulation and taxation. UNITED STATES