Delaware real-money Oct. 31

[rockycatt]

24 Oct 2013

By Vin Narayanan




Delaware will launch real-money online gaming on Oct. 31. The Halloween treat for casino players was confirmed Tuesday at the World Regulatory Briefing in Philadelphia by Dover Downs Hotel and Casino President and CEO Ed Sutor.

"In nine days, Delaware will be the first state in the country to go with full online gaming," Sutor said.

"It is going to bring customers back to the brick-and-mortars," Sutor added.

Delaware is allowing its three casinos to offer a full suite of casino games online, including slot machines, table games and poker. Players need to be physically located in Delaware to play with one of Delaware's three casinos online.

Nevada, which became the first state to allow people within its borders to participate in online gaming earlier this year, only allows online poker to be offered.

In November, New Jersey's Atlantic City casinos will begin offering the full suite of casino games online to people in New Jersey.

While Delaware's casinos will be free to do their own marketing, they're essentially required to hook their brands into the platform being operated by the Delaware State Lottery. The Delaware Lottery elected to use 888's gaming platform for the online casino and poker rooms. Scientific Games is responsible for age verification, location verification, payment processing and other issues.

Sutor expects that once Delaware is up and running, they'll be able to turn their attention to compacting with other states -- and even other countries -- to build up player liquidity. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Delaware has a population of approximately 917,000 people.

 

[Simmo!]

The Delaware Lottery elected to use 888's gaming platform for the online casino...

The poker might be good but as far as casino goes, the expression "better than nothing I suppose" springs to mind. 72 hour reverse times, slots they've never heard of and very average table games - an odd choice unless they've spruced it up for the US market. 888 have proved a very succesful company financially so you can sort of see why they went this route but put all the casino software platforms in front of players and you wouldn't find many choosing this one these days IMO.

 

[rockycatt]

The poker might be good but as far as casino goes, the expression "better than nothing I suppose" springs to mind. 72 hour reverse times, slots they've never heard of and very average table games - an odd choice unless they've spruced it up for the US market. 888 have proved a very succesful company financially so you can sort of see why they went this route but put all the casino software platforms in front of players and you wouldn't find many choosing this one these days IMO.

I know new jersey was going on line but not Delaware how ever interesting it is a huge amount of corporation's choose
Delaware as a issuing state for easy tax purposes so there a state with $$$ on the brain

 

[bigjohn]

The poker might be good but as far as casino goes, the expression "better than nothing I suppose" springs to mind. 72 hour reverse times, slots they've never heard of and very average table games - an odd choice unless they've spruced it up for the US market. 888 have proved a very succesful company financially so you can sort of see why they went this route but put all the casino software platforms in front of players and you wouldn't find many choosing this one these days IMO.

I am pretty darn sure 888 is not going to be doing any of the management of the casino, at least I hope not. I can't see the Delaware Lottery Commission allowing any body to handle the day to day operations.

 

[Simmo!]

I am pretty darn sure 888 is not going to be doing any of the management of the casino, at least I hope not. I can't see the Delaware Lottery Commission allowing any body to handle the day to day operations.

Yes that's a good point Bigjohn. I would imagine they also plan to extend the product to add games that are more popular too.

 

[AlmostFamous]

Delaware Online Gambling

Yes that's a good point Bigjohn. I would imagine they also plan to extend the product to add games that are more popular too.

I'd Move to Delaware, if they had online Microgaming. lol