Thanks to a new online poker pact, players in New Jersey will soon be able to play against people in Nevada and Delaware, expanding a growing portion of the state’s gambling industry. Players in Nevada and Delaware have been able to play against each other since 2015, but New Jersey is now set to join once regulators in the states approve an operator and game software, Republican Gov. Chris Christie announced Friday. Christie said the pact will allow the states to connect other games, as well, but Nevada currently only offers poker. Vernon Kirk, director of Delaware’s Lottery, said that…

Card Player – Although it fell under the radar for the most part, Nevada’s gaming industry had an important milestone last week. February marked the first time ever that a Silver State gaming revenue report included online poker figures. The state was keeping the numbers under wraps until a third casino firm, South Point, started offering games. Station Casinos, which debuted games in spring 2013, and Caesars Entertainment, which kicked things off in late summer, are the other two. In other words, from now on the successes or failures of Nevada’s online gaming industry will be out in the open…

An agreement for Delaware and Nevada interstate online poker has been reached. State leaders signed a landmark agreement Tuesday that will join their states for web based poker, potentially increasing jackpots for residents who gamble while aiming to model how states might collaborate on an emerging economic opportunity. A “Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement” signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware establishes a legal framework for the first authorized interstate Internet gambling. The deal aims to expand the marketplace for online poker in the small states that by themselves are not seen as having significant populations…

Card Player – It has been speculated that Nevada and New Jersey could share their respective populations for online gambling starting sometime next year, and on Wednesday Nevada regulators discussed some of the changes that would need to occur to the rules currently on the books in order to make something like that possible. The Internet gaming regulations in the Silver State, which were first adopted in December 2011, would need to be amended in order to allow for such deals to be brokered. “I can’t enter into any compacts or agreements with other states until the Gaming Control Board…

The road to Nevada online poker to residents of other states is long and tortuous and gaming regulators took a step in that journey Wednesday when the state Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop meeting on a proposal for companies to offer progressive jackpots across state lines. The state’s largest slot machine manufacturers — International Game Technology and Bally Technologies — petitioned the Nevada Gaming Commission to amend regulations to allow multi-jurisdictional progressive prizes. Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett concurred that adoption of the amendments to the regulation could be viewed as a first step toward developing online poker…

Ultimate Poker has registered thousands of online poker users from every U.S. state and 20 countries. That’s in just 72 hours. By Thursday evening, the website dealt its 100,000th hand of poker. Around 10 p.m., Ultimate Poker had 50 poker tables with action. “I would say we were the largest poker room in the state at that hour,” Ultimate Gaming CEO Tobin Prior said Friday. Company officials said the launch of Ultimate Poker, the nation’s first legally regulated pay-to-play online gaming website, has exceeded expectations. Ultimate Poker Chairman Tom Breitling didn’t want to reveal official numbers for the website’s first…