Penn National will be a part of the online gambling industry in Pennsylvania. But what will that involvement look like?
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More than €11 million was paid out in PokerStars’ first ever SCOOP on the French-Spanish network.
The first ever SCOOP tournament series in PokerStars’ nascent French-Spanish online poker network is in the books, with ambitious total guarantees exceeded by more than 10%.
SCOOP Europe 2018, which ran over the last two weeks, guaranteed a total of €10 million across a broad 120-event schedule. It marks the largest tournament series PokerStars has run in the segregated European markets.
Project aims to help build diversity and inclusion in the betting and igaming sector.
The Kindred Group and Microgaming have both partnered with the All-In Diversity Project to help create a level playing field in terms of equality, diversity and inclusion throughout the igaming industry and beyond, the pair announced this week.
The All-In Diversity Project aims to “shift the paradigm for inclusion through transparency, measurability and actionable tactics” and has backing from other leading gambling companies including Paddypower Betfair, IGT and Caesars.
Based in the Aria Resort & Casino, the new set will be the home to all new poker and esports events.
Poker Central in partnership with gaming content creator ESP Gaming has announced the launch of their new 10,000 square-foot studio in the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Productions in the new studio will include all subscription-based PokerGO shows such as the Super High Roller Bowl, Poker Masters, US Poker Open, Poker After Dark and Vainglory Premier League.
Just when it seemed like NY online poker was drawing slim on success in 2018, a new potential hero swooped in. Just days after the New York legislature passed a budget which included no online poker, a new Assemblyman has our hopes up about iPoker this year.
When it comes to online poker the issue has never been the state Senate. Thanks to ardent online poker champion Sen. John Bonacic, online poker bills sail through the Senate year after year with near-unanimous support.
The issue is in the Assembly. In 2017, things started to look more positive for online poker advocates. Assemblymember J. Gary Pretlow finally threw his support behind the bill. This was particularly important, as Pretlow chairs the Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee.
After being on the fence about online poker for several years, he came out championing the endeavor in 2017. Unfortunately, Pretlow claimed there was not enough support in the Assembly to call the bill up for a vote. After the bill ran out of momentum, Pretlow started to become wishy-washy when it came to iPoker.
Poker supporters in New York know that Pretlow is an important piece of the puzzle. However, they also know he is not the fighter for the cause that Bonacic is.
Enter Assemblyman Clyde Vanel.
Vanel fought hard to get online poker in the budget this year. He even managed to get 60 Democrats in the Assembly to support its inclusion. While that ultimately was not enough for the budget, Vanel hopes to spin that momentum into an Assembly bill supporting online poker. That support has Vanel optimistic about poker’s odds. He elaborated to Online Poker Report:
“Chairman Pretlow is a great champion for it, and now he has the partners to bring it through,” Vanel said. “The next few weeks will show some traction for the bill. With enough co-sponsors, I like it to get out of committee and onto the floor. I think we have a good shot of getting it through this year.”
Pretlow’s committee is an important part of passing an online poker bill. The committee Vanel chairs plays a role as well though. He is at the helm of the Subcommittee on Internet and New Technology.
“I want New York to be in a position where we’re leading the country in internet and new technology,” Vanel said. “This is an area where we can improve. We have poker in New York but we’re not allowing it online. Folks can’t articulate why.”
Vanel is enthusiastic, sure, but do not expect a bill to pop up overnight. Per his discussion with Online Poker Report, he estimates it will be June before a bill hits the Assembly floor.
So what do you do in the meantime?
The answer is definitely not nothing. Vanel even specifically called for the suppot of constituents in order to make online poker a reality in the Empire State. Here is what he said in his recent interview:
“We need pressure from the outside, too. There has to be momentum and push on the inside and outside. We need to show that there’s voices out there other than people opposed to wagering, and they are respectable poker players who we are depriving opportunities.”
If you recall, last year’s efforts fell apart from an alleged lack of support for the bill. Rather than let that happen again, New Yorkers need to reach out to their local lawmakers and let them know this is something they very much want.
This may sound daunting, but it is easier than you think.
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The forthcoming launches of two new casinos have many worried that the AC casino market will soon have more supply than demand, but that may not be the case.
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According to data collected from PokerScout.com on April 9, New Jersey online poker cash game traffic declined for the second week in a row, while tournament traffic in the state remained flat.
Both average cash game traffic and peak cash game traffic posted a decline at 4.5 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively. The busiest night of the week was Monday for the second week in a row with 666 players showing up to play poker.
Tournament entries remained flat at 578 entries spread among the three most significant tournaments of the weekend. All three of the major operators (Pala Poker data was unavailable), entered overlay territory, with PokerStars contributing $7,242 to the player prize pool to meet its $45,000 guarantee – the largest overlay of the group.
With that said, let’s take a detailed look back at the cash game and tournament trends in the New Jersey online poker market for the week ending April 8, 2018.
New Jersey has seven online poker sites operating on four separate networks.
During the week of April 2 – 8, 2018, New Jersey online poker sites averaged 240 cash game players, a decrease of 4.5 percent from the previous week’s number of 252.
Peak traffic numbers came in at 612 players, a decrease of 1.6 percent from the previous week’s figure of 622.
For the second week in a row, the busiest day of the week fell on Monday with the peak number of players reaching 666. That was a significant decline over last week’s number of 700.
Here’s how those players are distributed across the four online poker networks.
partypoker bounced back from a 7.1 percent decrease in cash game traffic last week to a 12 percent increase this week. The seven-day rolling peak traffic average for partypoker was 184 cash game players compared to the previous week’s number of 164.
The seven-day rolling peak traffic average for WSOP/888 was 183 cash game players compared to last week’s number of 191. While its 4.4 percent decrease in traffic is not as severe as last week’s decline of 21.8 percent, this is not a good look for WSOP/888 as they prepare for a busy summer at the WSOP.
PokerStars posted the only increase in traffic last week. It wasn’t so lucky when this week ended, showing a 10.4 percent decrease. The seven-day rolling peak traffic average for PokerStars was 232 cash game players compared to the 259 players that the site averaged last week.
The seven-day rolling peak traffic average for Pala Poker was 13 cash game players, which is a 57.9 percent increase compared to last week’s traffic number of 8 players. And while the traffic numbers are low compared to the other operators, this is the most significant increase Pala Poker has posted in months.
It’s the second week of declining traffic for New Jersey’s online poker cash games. That is not good news for an industry that typically sees a nice bump in April. There is hope on the horizon, however, with the speculation that combining player pools with Nevada is imminent.
A lack of a signature tournament series typically affects cash game traffic and this week was no different. Thankfully, that is about to change. NJSCOOP gets underway on Saturday, April 14 on PokerStars. Additionally, the Show Me Series begins on WSOP.com on Sunday, April 15.
It’s hard to know if the Show Me Series will have much of an impact. The buy-ins are small, and historically, players seem to turn out for the bigger buy-in events which will be found on PokerStars.
In the end, players will be looking for NJSCOOP, and the WSOP Show Me Series to move traffic numbers into positive territory for the next few weeks.
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All New Jersey operators were on their regular Sunday schedule this week.
The major tournaments this week were:
There were 578 tournament entries this week, the same number the three most prominent tournaments posted last week.
The distribution of those entries shifted quite a bit, with WSOP/888 the only platform to post an increase. It recovered from the 15 percent decline last week to post a 17 percent increase in entries this week.
Both PokerStars and partypoker posted a decline in entries, 11 percent and two percent respectively. Once again, we were unable to access Pala Poker’s tournament data for Sunday.
Even though WSOP/888 posted a decent increase in tournament entries, it wasn’t quite big enough to avoid an overlay. The site contributed $1,600 to the prize pool to meet its $40,000 guarantee.
PokerStars added $7,242 to the player prize pool, the most considerable amount of the major sites and more than double partypoker’s contribution of $3,400.
Expect numbers to rebound and land in positive territory for the next few weeks thanks to two tournament series on the calendar.
PokerStars is hosting the extremely popular NJSCOOP beginning on Saturday, April 14. WSOP.com is hosting the Show Me Series beginning on Sunday, April 15.
The Show Me Series will not be directly reflected in next week’s numbers because the buy-ins are small. Even so, WSOP/888 is hoping the series will draw players into the Ultimate Warrior tournament and its cash games.
And with that, here’s a look at the total number of entries for the largest tournament held on each of the three main online poker networks in New Jersey:
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