NJ Regulator on UK Shared Poker Liquidity: “We Just Couldn’t Pull it Off” NJ Regulator on UK Shared Poker Liquidity: “We Just Couldn’t Pull it Off”
Bob Jagendorf, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
Key Takeaways
  • A year after the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) reached an agreement “in principle” with the UK Gaming Commission}, hopes that the two regulated online gaming markets would be able to put shared liquidity into practice seem more like a pipe dream.
  • Hearing Rebuck talk on the topic, one can assume that at a minimum there is an informal agreement already in place with Pennsylvania.
  • “I have reopened the dialogue with AG Burnett [Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board] to determine if we can try to get an agreement between New Jersey and Nevada to have [shared] liquidity.”

A year after the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) reached an agreement “in principle” with the UK Gaming Commission, hopes that the two regulated online gaming markets would be able to put shared liquidity into practice seem more like a pipe dream.

After talks with the UKGC and the top online poker operators in New Jersey, DGE director David Rebuck said of the prospects of shared liquidity with the UK, “we just couldn’t pull it off.”