Legal US Poker Sites – While Nevada may have been the first state in the U.S. to go live with regulated online gambling, the slight lead that milestone afforded may be in danger as competing states seek to displace Nevada at the top of the growing industry.
The main threat in the status quo: New Jersey, where regulators recently suggested that they remain on track for their ambitious launch date of November 23rd, 2013.
And when New Jersey does launch real-money online gambling, they’ll also be outdoing Nevada in one specific way: offering not only poker, but casino games to boot.
What’s driving New Jersey’s belief that they can be live with regulated online gambling in just a few months? Part of the confidence stems from the fact that regulators have apparently been preparing themselves to handle the issue of regulating Internet gambling for some time.
According to recent interviews with the head of New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, David Rebuck, preparations for regulating online gambling have been in the works for years. But the agency began looking at the issue with substantially greater urgency after the Department of Justice issued their memo regarding a re-interpretation of the Wire Act in December of 2011.
