Online Poker Traffic – With initial revenue numbers for regulated online gambling in New Jersey coming in a bit lower than anticipated, market watchers are wondering if the industry will be able to bulk up enough in January to move in line with expectations. Current online poker traffic trends suggest that they will. Data from the latest Scouting Report – a daily analysis publication produced by PokerScout.com covering the global online poker industry –  shows that New Jersey’s regulated online poker rooms are building upon their record-setting traffic levels of last week. While traffic has fallen from the peak set the weekend of…

Philly.com – Jamie Kerstetter is in her pink slippers with the pom-poms. And why shouldn’t she be? It’s a Sunday morning, and she’s settling in to a long day during which she won’t leave the apartment. The cards are dealt, on the screen, four tables going at once, a far cry from the 20 poker games this former tax lawyer used to fire up on her computer screen in Mexico, where she would spend hour after twitchy hour playing online Texas hold ’em. “My boyfriend and I would sit all day and not talk to each other except when one…

Philly.com – Saying they have confirmed that one or more people used “a significant number of counterfeit chips” at an Atlantic City poker tournament, state casino regulators Saturday canceled the tainted match and ordered all prize money frozen until an investigation is complete. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement canceled the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open. It had suspended the game Friday after suspicions about the use of fake chips arose. No charges have been filed. “Thus far, investigators have found that one or more tournament entrants improperly introduced a significant number of counterfeit chips into…

iGaming Business – Social gaming company Zynga has launched its Zynga Plus Poker product on social networking website Facebook, according to the Pokernews.com website. The product, which is currently only available to Facebook users in the UK, utilises the network and software of Partypoker, the internet poker brand of online gaming company bwin.party. Zynga announced plans to launch the application on Facebook when it unveiled web and download versions of its ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino brands for UK players back in April 2013, as reported by iGaming Business. Zynga, which struck its original deal with Facebook to launch real-money games in…

Poker News – Online poker has struggled mightily in France over the past few years, and a recent financial report released by the France’s gambling regulator ARJEL showed that revenues took another significant hit in 2013. This week’s report by the ARJEL revealed that gross gaming revenues from online cash games dipped 13% to €258 million in 2013, with revenues in the fourth quarter of the year down 12% to €65 million. iGamingBusiness reports that stakes for online poker tournaments were up 5%, but it was not enough to make up for the drop in cash game numbers. Many licensed…

iGaming Business – Trends for France’s igaming verticals were confirmed on Tuesday when the country’s online gaming regulator ARJEL revealed that fourth quarter stakes for online poker cash games dropped 23% to €1.2bn, with gross gaming revenues down 12% during the final months of 2013 to €65m. Annual figures showed gross gaming revenues and stakes for online poker cash games had dropped 13% and 18% to €258m and €5.5bn respectively during 2013. Stakes for tournaments were up 5% to €1.4bn, although this was not enough to make up for the drop in cash game figures. Online betting continued its upward…