There were attempts to log on to New Jersey’s fledgling online gaming sites from “at least 23 other states” while a number of legitimate players within the state claimed to have been wrongly prohibited from playing by geolocation software.
New Jersey’s online gambling laws require players to be present in the state and some players were excluded despite being up to 15 miles inside the state boundary
Lisa Spengler of the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, said regulators are “not overly concerned” with the geolocation issues that were widely reported after the first night of the soft launch last week.
“It is better to have instances of people in New Jersey being blocked, than instances of people being able to gamble from outside of New Jersey,” she said.
Spengler said the problems some users reported “at this point seem to be routine and not evidence of any system-wide issues.”
If regulators are satisfied that the system is watertight and able to perform in strict accordance with the regulations, a full-time statewide offering is expected to go live tomorrow, Tuesday, November 26.
