888 has just come up with their most lucrative new player bonus offer ever in New Jersey. California Online Poker may be several more years away.

The Canadian province of Alberta is looking to establish an online gaming site. The massive blizzard that hit the East Coast of the US had an impact on the New Jersey online poker market last week.

It’s been five years now since Full Tilt introduced the poker world to its innovative new form of poker called Rush Poker, and soon other sites were coming up with their own similar versions of this format.

A Russian player turned a $5 buy in into the magical amount of one million in the space of only 13 minutes. New Jersey sites start pooling players. Mississippi takes another shot at an online poker bill.

PokerStars has now chosen to revoke their recent rake increases. Ladbrokes has joined the exodus out of Russia and will no longer be serving residents of this country.

It hasn’t been a stellar year for New Jersey gaming, with their land based casinos taking a real hit and their online poker rooms continuing to fall well short of original expectations.

The U.S. regulated poker market saw a decline this week. Bodog captured the title of number one remaining US friendly site and has been gathering momentum ever since. Santa Ysabel Indians vow to fight for real money gaming.

Santa Ysabel Indians of California launching a real money online poker site PrivateTable. Connective Games, the Russian based company which operates Europe Bet has now set up shop in Malta.

PokerStars is maintaining its average of 18,500 cash game players in spite of a lot of dissatisfaction being expressed by players there over recent rake increases, high stakes play actually increased.

Overall traffic fell by 3% this week, giving back the 3% gain that we saw accumulated over the past 2 weeks. Compared to this week last year, traffic is now down 10% over last year’s levels.