New Jersey Online Poker Liquidity Sharing: What's the Hold Up? New Jersey Online Poker Liquidity Sharing: What's the Hold Up?
Key Takeaways
  • Nevada/Delaware have shown that differences in regulations and taxes can be overcome.
  • No legal barriers prevent New Jersey from forming international liquidity sharing compacts.
  • However, practical issues arise when considering both the UK and Nevada.

It has been more than a year since two of the three US states that regulate online poker have started sharing liquidity.

An agreement entered into by Nevada and Delaware in February 2014, which allows players in each state to compete against each other at the virtual tables, was put into action the following year in March.

And even though increasing liquidity for online poker was deemed to be “very important” by the New Jersey regulator after examining the market following its first year, the player pool of the nation’s biggest online gaming state remains isolated.

Though there have been talks on the topic of shared liquidity between New Jersey and other jurisdictions such as Nevada and the United Kingdom, thus far there hasn’t been even a hint of progress.