iGaming Business – Regulators in New Jersey have moved a step closer to opening the US state’s online gambling service to an international audience after a new bill was approved by the state Senate Government, Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation Committee. According to the Associated Press news agency, the bill would allow casino regulators to oversee foreign online gambling companies if they were to move their operations to Atlantic City. Senator Reymond Lesniak sponsored the bill and said many overseas gambling companies are keen to gain approval from New Jersey’s casino regulators. “This could help make New Jersey the leader…

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…