Just days before the New Jersey online gambling experiment goes live, the lawmaker responsible for pushing the issue in the first place is setting his sights on global gamblers. State Senator Raymond Lesniak plans to introduce a bill that would let international companies set up shop in New Jersey and then offer online gambling to people located outside the U.S. The idea is to play on America’s reputation for financial security: Legal gambling operations headquartered in New Jersey would presumably appear less likely to make off with customers’ money or crumble under shifting regulations. Lest he might fail to establish…

APP.com – New Jersey is extending its self-exclusion list to allow people to ban themselves from online betting. The action comes with Internet gambling set to begin in just over two weeks, and some advocates worry about a spike in compulsive gambling. New Jersey, like many other states, allows people who feel they have a gambling problem to place their names on a list of those who are not allowed to enter any of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos. The state Gaming Enforcement Division is automatically extending the list to cover Internet gambling, as well. People already on the exclusion list…

Press Release – Today’s economy in the United States is shaky on the best of days, and now with the government shutdown, you really don’t know what is going to happen from day to day, but there are states that are still out there trying to figure out how to generate new streams of income. One of those streams come from gambling as several states have been looking into ways they can institute legal gambling without stepping on the toes of the law. But one state is aiming to keep up with modern technology and use online gambling to boost…

News Max – New Jersey’s decision to allow online gambling is an alarming development for compulsive bettors, says Arnie Wexler, a certified compulsive-gambling counselor. “If you’re an addicted gambler or have the possibility of becoming an addicted gambler, you very easily in the middle of the night . . . get an urge, a flash, a feeling, a thought, and then you’re in action,” Wexler told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV. “You don’t have to put gasoline in your car, you don’t have to drive to a casino or a racetrack, you don’t have to go anyplace,” he…

Poker News Daily – According to reports out of the state, many New Jersey casinos have yet to file critical paperwork with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement as the state readies to launch their full online casino gaming network in just over two months. Meadowlands Matters writer John Brennan reports that Atlantic City casinos received a letter last week to inform them of the oversight and that the required information was needed by September 20. The letter stated that, “The Division’s review of those submissions filed to date has revealed omissions where the applicant has failed to provide…

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…