Approximately ten years ago, the United States regulated online poker market made its debut. Three states embraced the idea of each licensing and regulating their own poker operators. Nevada legalized online poker only, without any casino games to create a broader igaming industry. But Delaware and New Jersey both legalized online poker and casinos.
Those three states fully understood that the only way for this new US market to grow is for the states to regulate their own but join their player pools through a network. Creating online poker liquidity across state lines would make the market viable as more states joined in.
It took a long time for other states to join in.
In fact, it took more than half a decade for any other states to even launch online poker. Pennsylvania did it in 2019, followed by Michigan. Even Connecticut and West Virginia legalized igaming but only launched online casinos, as no poker operators have even applied for licenses in those small states. Tracking US Online Poker Revenue
The original thought was that Nevada would release its online poker revenue, as the Delaware Lottery did for its state and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement did for NJ. And future poker-loving states would do the same.
This has proven to be a tougher task than anticipated for two primary reasons: Nevada doesn’t need to reveal its online poker revenue if there are fewer than three operators with live poker sites in the state. WSOP is the only one, and it does not release its revenue numbers for public viewing.
Michigan reports its total internet gaming revenue but does not separate out online poker. Despite multiple operators in the state with poker sites, there is no separation of that revenue from the rest of igaming.
So, while seven states have legalized state-regulated online poker, only five states have operational sites, and only three of those provide poker-specific revenue information. For those three states, the total revenue from 2022 was $61,480,956. Delaware Online Poker
The smallest of the markets, Delaware has only one operator – WSOP – providing licensed online […]
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