April 15, 2011: Known as Black Friday, the FBI shut down US poker sites and restricted them, stemming from October 13, 2006, The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).To play legally, you need to sign up with a poker network licensed by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (NJDGE) and be over 21. Once restricted, NJ online poker sites are now completely legal. Online poker has been through a lot over the last two decades. And now here we are with online poker, which connects you with thousands of players across hundreds of games and poker tournaments in New Jersey. Of course, Texas Hold’em has become the mainstream version of poker and is the game of the World Series of Poker (WSOP).įrom being illegal to being fully legal online, from the underground to the mainstream, the poker story is one of growth and success. Texas Hold’em emerged as a variant of seven card stud in the early 1900s, sowing the seeds for the modern game. The game picked up a more Americanized name, “Poker”.īy the late 19th century, poker had become the card game of choice at the saloons in the Old West. When colonists from France settled in Louisiana in the late 18th century, they brought Poque to the streets of New Orleans. While poker’s origins are unknown, the modern game is thought to have combined many card games that the French developed as Poque.
