If the land based casinos offer $1 minimum blackjack, baccarat, roulette, etc. and at least $500 maximum bets, then, yes, I would play in their land based casino. But otherwise, I would not play in the land based casino as the minimum bets are too high.
Wouldn't Wi-Fi connections be disrupted for everybody (non-casino included) in the whole Atlantic City area if that is the case? If the online casino servers determine you are inside the land based casino, they would create artificial disruptions? That would be so devious and crooked in my opinion.
So they are not inviting out-of-state players to come into New Jersey and/or to their land based casinos to play their online casino? Where are the current players playing from while inside New Jersey?
Wi-Fi signals are a rare commodity near the casinos in Atlantic City.
If you stay in any of the the resort hotels you have to pay for internet to be available to you (again, they don't want people sitting in their rooms doing things on their computers) through their routers for $12.00 for 24 hrs. and if your computer shows only 1 or 2 wi-fi signals available you will most likely not be able to get geo-location verified.
Another factor is your cellphone signal. Anywhere inside the casinos you typically get a weak signal and if your phone is not showing better than 2 bars you will have a hard time connecting.
It is definitely not anywhere near a perfect system and there are days when I can not connect even though I am sitting in the exact same place I was the day before when it worked good. I live right in a wi-fi hotspot and sometimes I have to change to a different signal. Optimum wi-fi, cable wi-fi, xfinity wi-fi, and TWC wi-fi are all available to me from the pole outside my house and some, according to whatismyip.com, show me as being in Connecticut or New York and, for some of the casinos, I have to try to find one that says New Jersey. Some casinos are better at locating me than others.
The Betfair site and the Ultimate Gaming site seem to work the best for me and I have very few problems connecting with them, at the other end of the spectrum the Golden Nugget site is very difficult for me to geo-locate. I can play there any time I want but I always have to work at it.
I have talked to the cable company and they tell me all the IP addresses I get are New Jersey addresses according to ARIN (American Registry of Internet Numbers) and the problem is with the casinos. The casinos say the problem is with my wi-fi provider. So it's just finger pointing and no solutions currently.
As far as where players who are not NJ residents are playing I would imagine there are not that many and if I had to guess probably much more than 90% of the players who frequent the on-line casinos here are NJ residents playing from their homes. Outsiders probably play when they are in NJ on business or visiting family.
Perhaps Jason and/or UltimateJ could give us an idea of what percentage of their players are residents of NJ.
You can certainly play here but it aint easy.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
