Online gambling marketing in New Jersey has been “amateurish” so far.This according to New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak, who is attending the iGaming North America Conference currently taking place in Las Vegas is a place. That conference has been billed as a place for industry insiders to dabble in prognostication, learning from one another, to exchange ideas, and even criticism. Lesniak, however, has had a particular criticism to bring to light, and he’s expressed his disappointment with the online gambling marketing in New Jersey has been “amateurish” so far.This according to New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak, who is…

Online poker players in Nevada and Delaware may get Interstate poker and be competing against each other as early as this summer. After forging the nation’s first interstate agreement last month, Delaware Governor Jack Markell and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval are aiming for the new online poker scheme to be up and running in just a few months. Previously, the end of 2014 had been mentioned as the target, but that projection has been shortened. Both states could use the increased liquidity, as both are in the lower third of the nation in population. Delaware ranks nearly at the bottom…

iGaming Business – Gaming content supplier Realistic Games has linked up with Paddy Power to launch embedded blackjack and roulette games into the Irish bookmaker’s new sportsbook iPad application. In what the companies claim is an “industry first”, the products allow users of the application to switch between their betting slip and tables games without having to transfer money or exit the sportsbook. The new Paddy Power application can be downloaded to the iPad from the Apple App Store. Andy Harris, commercial director of Realistic Games, said: “We’ve felt for a while that embedding games in iPad sportsbooks, and blackjack…

iGaming Business – Paddy Power-owned Australian online bookmaker Sportsbet has launched legal action to stop its employees from joining Beteasy, a new betting company set up by former chief executive Matthew Tripp. According to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, Sportsbet filed an injunction in the Victorian Supreme Court alleging that former employee Kelli Carpanini had started working for Beteasy in breach of what it said was a “non-complete restraint period”. The online bookmaker also alleged that Carpanini was in breach of the conditions of her contract by failing to keep communications confidential. The matter had been due to be heard…

California Tribal Business Alliance – Recent accounts in the media indicate that PokerStars is in partnership negotiations with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and three large Southern California Card Clubs to offer online poker in California. The news accounts come at a particularly opportunistic time, when the California State Legislature will be debating two measures that will authorize the play of online poker within California’s borders. One of the most significant issues in the legislative discussions is who will be allowed to offer online poker in California.  From the California Tribal Business Alliance’s (CTBA) perspective, only entities that adhere to…

The Hill – Legislation to ban online gambling that was written with the help of lobbyists for Republican super-donor Sheldon Adelson will soon be introduced in Congress. Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is on a crusade to stop online gambling, arguing it would be harmful to children and the nation’s moral fabric. He is pushing for a federal law to stop the industry in its tracks. But the bill will face a firestorm of opposition from state lotteries, poker players and major casinos who see a bright future for the gambling industry online. Charlie McIntyre, executive director…