Online Gambling Glitches in New Jersey Persist

More than a week after online gambling began in New Jersey, casinos and their partners are still struggling to verify the location of people who want to play on the new websites, Ryan Hutchins of the Newark Star Ledger reports.

Sure it’s not the same disaster as – let’s say the Obamacare website rollout – but there are glitches nonetheless.

The good news is that geo-location systems, for the most part, appear to be working.  Only residents and visitors of the Garden State are permitted to gamble for real money online.

“I would say a quarter are getting on,” Callender said yesterday, noting there’s a positive side to that: “We don’t have a situation where people who are outside the state are getting on.”

While much attention has been paid to Governor Chris Christie’s supposed overestimation of the industry’s potential, operators are more than pleased and there is a remote possibility that numbers could ultimately meet the Governor’s expectations in the long run.  Some 17000 bets were placed during the initial testing phase.

“Every day gets a little less stressful,” said Seth Palansky, a spokesman for Caesars Interactive Entertainment.

- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com