07 October 2025
The Atlantic City casinos, who have applied for an online gambling license in the New Jersey market, received a letter signed by David Rebuck (director of the state agency responsible for online gambling), warning them of the official opening of the market at 9:00 am on November 26.
Before the official opening of the market, companies will have to provide their software for a "soft play" minimum period of five days, in which a small group of people will test the software of each licensed company in an online environment.
After this test period, companies will have final approval of the Division of Gaming Enforcement of the state of New Jersey to offer online gambling to all people within the state.
The Division of Gaming will publish an updated list of licensed companies at the www.njdge.org website.
In addition to the letter sent to all candidate companies, the gaming division published the final text of the regulation that companies will have to follow. The regulation text is a 106 pages document, in which we learn that the rooms must go beyond the request of a username and password, since they will have to include a "strong authentication" feature (this can be a second password, an electronic token , question answering about the player itself, or even biometric data such as fingerprints, face or voice recognition).
The Rational Group (PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker parent company), had suggested the possibility of transfering funds between players accounts, but the Division of Gaming Enforcement refused.
Senator Raymond Lesniak, who has called for online gambling legislation since 2010, believes that the opening of the New Jersey market will catapult the state to the forefront of the online gambling field:
"I think we're going to have a vibrant Internet gaming market in New Jersey generating revenues for casinos and the state, and keeping people employed. This is the start of something I believe is going to evolve into New Jersey dominating the national and international market of Internet gaming."
