One Year Anniversary for WSOP in New Jersey

It’s been a big month for the World Series of Poker (WSOP), with the final table of the Main Event having taken place earlier in the month.

However, that’s not the only big news. WSOP is also currently celebrating one year of having its online poker service up and running in the US state of New Jersey.

The milestone is one the company is making the most of, something seen by WSOP holding a series of promotions in the name of the one year anniversary.

A statement on the WSOP website outlined its desire to celebrate the anniversary through a number of events and promotions over the next week.

Among the most major promotion is a tournament ticket sale, which will allow prospective online players to purchase tickets to select WSOP.com tournaments at a 50 per cent discount for 24 hours between November 25 and November 26.

The company will also be running a series of seven tournaments over the next week as part of its first year anniversary festivities. The tournaments – which have a combined guaranteed prize pool of $40,000 – have buy-ins ranging from $5 to $100.

WSOP.com will also be holding a third promotion which allows players to earn double the amount of Action Player Points (APPs) between November 24 and November 30 when they spend an hour or more in a cash game or play a tournament or Sit n Go.

It’s a big way of celebrating their first anniversary of operating in New Jersey. However, it is also likely that WSOP.com is also hoping the promotion will help give the network the extra traffic it needs to be the most popular network in that state.

According to PokerScout, WSOP.com is currently the second largest network in New Jersey in terms of player traffic, with a seven-day average of 120 players. This puts it slightly behind Party Borgata, which leads the way in the state with an average of 140 players.

A successful promotion could easily give WSOP’s current average a solid boost and could even possibility take away some players from Borgata’s network. That could be enough to make WSOP the top network in New Jersey by the end of the month, something the WSOP brass are likely hoping will be the case.

Should that happen, it would make WSOP.com the top online poker network in both of the major US states – Nevada and New Jersey – to have regulated online poker.

Time will tell if WSOP.com can pull it off in New Jersey.