I live in long island, NY. Can I drive to a Starbucks in North Jersey and play?

Do you have to live there? I have a distant Aunt who lives in Jersey but she hates me, so I would rather collect any winnings at my home address rather than put her down.

As long as your in new jersey you can play even if your address is in ny

The hardest part, the biggest hurdle, seems to have already been tackled. NJ just needs to let Stars in. Once that happens, NJ legislators don't know dick about online poker or running any kind of international online business for that matter. It's up to Stars to say, if you allow those in NJ to only play against players in NJ, you get $X in tax revenue. If those in NJ can play with the whole player pool, the State gets $Y in tax revenue where Y >>> X.

Clearly Stars has been working hard making their case. They will continue to do that, and I trust Stars to figure it out and get it done.

I'm not sure the details but it's possible the govt may not want US players playing against foreigners. 1) could be an outflow of USD with no tax revenue; 2) could be abused by US citizens to get money out of the US where it is untracked and untaxed.

By keeping the pool US only no matter who wins at poker the govt can track and gets its taxes, and if it is the one expending resources to regulate the industry you better believe it's not going to be allowing operations that allow outflow of money with no tax revenue.

The flip side is that maybe more tax could be generated by allowing foreign players. I just doubt they will see it that way.

I do know that whatever the govt wants stars to do they will do it.

Lol since when does the fact regulators don't know **** about running business prevent them from imposing potentially suffocating regulations without care to the consequences of participants?

in the old days at stars, could someone create a foreign account and dump their money to this account, thereby avoiding U.S taxes?

Why can't the US take note on how the UK are doing it and just tax the operator not the players and include ROW player pools that way everyone wins?

I guess it's not as simple as that..

Whether to avoid tax or avoid detection while transferring money internationally, this is the main reasons we had Black Friday.

Dumping to your own foreign account won't help you avoid taxes but dumping to organized foreign operation designed to make the money "disappear" could. This is called money laundering, and makes Uncle Sam upset.

Isn't it ironic considering UK and US mutual history with regard to tax policy?

Merging with NV or DE won't do much for Stars in NJ... Both player pools are too small. Merging is a positive step, but it needs to be with a bigger state - PA, NY, California, Florida, etc.

The best thing about this is that Stars should now be all-in or close to it lobbying against Adelson, which makes it a bit more of a fair fight. That's huge for us.

They might challenge Borgata right out of the gate. There was a rumor for a while that they were going to go rake-free/time-free at 2/5 for a long time when they opened the room. That would make them competitive almost immediately.

The average joe is unlikely to hole up in a Starbucks across the border for hours on end playing online poker... But if Stars is smart, they'll offer rooms at Resorts for a cheap rate - maybe $30-$70 a night for the night before and night of the Sunday 100K or whatever they have, and throw a big party the night before for everyone who pre-registers. Pre-registry gets you one free drink ticket, there's a Stars pro there hanging out, and then it's a cash bar after that. People would make a weekend of it.

There will be way more advertising once groups of states are pooled. Most people living in New Jersey are watching TV stations serving NYC and Philadelphia, so once player pools are merged between PA, NY and NJ, or at least 2 of the 3, it'll become much more logical to advertise on those stations.

Mostly the question of the role of the tracks in online poker. But really, there's just not a lot of motivation for anyone to change the status quo on anything but their own terms.

Yes, NJ regulators have said this directly on several occasions.

Don't have a great answer but horse racing in the US has a longer run of legal clarity in terms of remote betting than online poker. I suspect it's a mix of that and the fact that regulators only have so many hours in the day. Might also be that not all operators want ROW pool-sharing right now...

Different law.

Never.

Going with 95% probably not.

Sorry, Texas is not launching regulated online poker in this decade.

This is a good question, but I'm going with another US state approving Stars. Maybe PA.

Nolan Dalla's blog on the subject: http://www.nolandalla.com/one-small-...-online-poker/

South Jersey is super nice btw..I just spent a week driving up to Maine and was amazed by that area around Cape May..

Shhh...Let's let everyone hold on to their perception that NJ is all like what they see around NYC when they fly into Newark. If word gets out that South Jersey (and much of the rest of the state) is actually really nice it might get more crowded than it already is.

I'm really happy to hear about this. This is a big positive step forward for online poker in the US. It will be interesting to watch how this affects the market and what approach Stars takes.

some great ideas to attract and grow both resorts live room and stars online, hope they follow this

dude theres no significant player pool in NJ (or nevada) who has any interest in playing online poker that doesnt already know its legal. All of the current operators have had major ad blitzes and it was all over the news for months.

the idea that there are people in NJ waiting for stars to enter the market to open their 1st online poker account iz looolz.

seriously dude, stick to live games

ill stick to always being right. u r dum.

They could easily just make it so NJ players can play with ROW and forbid p2p transfers but our government is super scared of OMGZ Money Laundering so it won't happen.

because chip dumping is still a thing.

LOL, wrong on both counts - you clearly don't live or spend any time in this area. On top of that, you give no credit to the Pokerstars brand, which indeed will attract new players to the NJ market. Also, you ignore that the arrival of Pokerstars in one state increases the likelihood that within the next couple of years they'll also arrive in a state not currently running regulated online poker. Finally, you dismiss the very real prospect that Pokerstars and NJ will in the future allow the player pool to merge with the rest-of-world merged pool.

Wake me up when a US site merges with the rest of the world its gonna be a long nap

wow, so a company that is still considered a bad actor in most jurisdictions is going to spearhead the spread of online poker in america and thats why more people will play in new jersey! hahahahahahahahahahaha.

teh stupid, it booo-urnz.

and yes, i do dismiss all of your ******ed unsubstantiated prognostications. the games will always be good.

Time will tell what transpires in neighboring states. Bad actor? In one jurisdiction. In the meantime, we all know you're a Richard.

Limon,

I enjoy your call-in stream and usually find your posts here informative, but the current batch that you dropped of late on this topic have not been either your best or most insightful efforts.

yes they have. you just dont know it yet. thats what makes them so good and why i am a legend.

I dare you to watch these shrinking online gaming numbers after pokerstars 1st year and compare them to 2014 with no stars. you are going to be VERY disappointed in what they add to the market, if anything. online poker is a joke in NJ 2015, missed all revenue projections by a mile this has NOTHING to do w/ lack of pokerstars. use your brain. https://www.playnj.com/new-jersey/revenue/

you act as if theres no nevada numbers either. yall are living in a dream world sitting around playing 5nl and fapping to the idea of another poker boom. NJ online poker "fizzleboom" lasted 4 months. Other states may dribble out similar launches that smoke and fizzle for a while and it will not happen because of stars but in spite of it.