iGaming Business – Eric Hollreiser, head of corporate communications at online poker operator PokerStars, remains ‘confident’ about what the company can achieve in the US market in 2014 despite having suffered a number of disappointments in the last year. One of the main goals of Pokerstars in 2013 was to launch an online gambling service in the recently regulated US state of New Jersey. However, as reported by iGaming Business, the firm had its application suspended for two years by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement due to ongoing concerns surrounding the company’s founder, Isai Scheinberg. In addition, PokerStars…

SF Gate – The past year has seen the re-emergence of online poker in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware, and some legal experts say California won’t be far behind. “I don’t have any doubt we’ll have legal online poker in California,” says Whittier Law School Professor I. Nelson Rose, a specialist in gambling law. “Only politics is preventing it.” By politics he primarily means Indian tribes that wield immense influence in Sacramento and are said to believe most legal online gambling could reduce the number of people playing in casinos. He notes the state already allows remote online betting on horse races….

Press of Atlantic City – PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker website, says it is seeking to offer online gambling in other states even as it continues pursuing a license to do it in New Jersey. In a year-end blog post expected to be published Tuesday that was obtained by The Associated Press, the site’s parent company, the Rational Group, also blames the owners of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel for its impending shutdown. The Rational Group signed a deal to buy the casino for $15 million, but the casino owners canceled that in April when Rational didn’t get state…

Party Poker has finally released their iOS app for players located in New Jersey.  The app was developed by Bwin.Party Entertainment Limited and it allows players the ability to play for real money on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. When you load up the app you have the option to either click on real money, fast forward, play money or preview. The real money games are fairly straightforward. Players have the option to play up to $25/$50 while fast forward allows play up to $5/$10. The game play experience at these tables is surprisingly good, featuring crisp and clean…

Card Player – This week, the Golden Nugget Atlantic City opened its brand new poker room, according to NorthJersey.com. The casino had closed its poker room earlier this year. According to the report, the Golden Nugget’s new card room is located “in a luxurious setting in the Main Atrium.” The room has the standard hours of never closing. The 10-table room is on the Bravo Poker app. The casino is involved with the online gambling business in New Jersey, but has yet to offer real-money online poker. That should come soon, perhaps as early as next month, according to USPoker.com….

Online Poker Report – According to tracking data from the latest Scouting Report – a daily analysis publication from PokerScout.com – the Party / Borgata Network and WSOP.com together account for over 80% of the total online poker market in New Jersey. As of December 22nd, Party / Borgata held a 49% share and WSOP.com accounted for 32% of online poker play in the Garden State. At the other end of the NJ online poker traffic rankings, 888′s All American Poker Network (AAPN) saw a small uptick in the week before the holidays – a 1% bump to 15% that came at the direct…

PartyPoker has always been one of the top destinations for value-laden online poker promotions and that has never been truer than during this Holiday Season, when the cards were in the air and when the Advent Calendar – covering all the Holiday promotions offered by the site – has been in full effect. Although by now one might think it’s a tad late to join the Christmas party at PartyPoker, that is by no means true. There’s always something going on at the site, and by making use of the right channels and using the right Party Poker code everyone…

iGaming Business – Research institution and consultancy Academicon and market research company PokerScout have claimed in a new study that if California opts to legalise online poker, the US state could generate revenue of up to $263 million (€192 million) in the first year. The study said that the US state can expect to generate between $217 million and $263 million in its first year of operations if it goes ahead with a regulated service. The research claimed that the market could generate revenue of up to $384 million in year 10 of operations. Researchers analysed data on 4.6 million…