Matthew Pineault of Ridgewood in Bergen County, has enjoyed playing online poker with several sites, but said he favors the World Series of Poker site run by Caesars Entertainment - a site that drew praise from many players during its first week of operation. The state allows gamblers play any of the games offered in its 12 casinos - including card games and slots. New Jersey is the third state in the nation to offer online gambling, after Nevada and Delaware. It marks the biggest expansion of gambling in Garden State since the first Atlantic City casino opened in 1978. Statewide Internet gambling began Monday afternoon in New Jersey. Some users have created accounts with more than one gambling site. Regulators could not immediately say how many different gamblers actually made bets online.
About 5,000 of those accounts were added on Thursday. 21, the state Division of Gaming Enforcement says 32,277 had been created accounts as of Thursday. Since a test of online betting began in New Jersey on Nov. In addition to the usual holiday traditions, gamblers found time to create 5,000 new Internet betting accounts on Thanksgiving.
