{"id":9629,"date":"2019-06-19T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2019-06-20T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:48:05","slug":"pokerstars-to-introduce-offline-card-room-in-mount-airy-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/pokerstars-to-introduce-offline-card-room-in-mount-airy-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"PokerStars to Introduce Offline Card Room in Mount Airy, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
PokerStars\nis joining Mount Airy Casino Resort with both an online and offline\ncard room for players to enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pennsylvania is fast approaching a full-scale launch of its online gaming industry<\/a>, which includes both poker and iGaming activities. In light of this, the state’s land-based operators have managed to secure partnerships from established brands, including PokerStars<\/strong> and partypoker<\/strong> insofar the card game goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There\nhas been a lot happening in the meanwhile. The SugarHouse Casino has\nchosen to rebrand itself as Rivers Philadelphia and the news was big\nenough to almost dwarf the fact that Mount Airy Casino Resort <\/strong>will\ndevelop a new brick-and-mortar gaming room which will combine a\nsportsbook and a card room. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\nturn, this means that PokerStars<\/a>\nwill enjoy both online and offline presence and give the brand a\npower-up to actually find enough players who are willing to abandon\noffshore opportunities and join legal poker instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn’t PokerStars’ first rodeo. The Stars\nGroup-owned online card room was hopeful that it would manage to\nexcite interest in poker by launching a similar endeavor in New\nJersey<\/strong>. However, the numbers didn’t seem to support this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even adding Nevada and Delaware to a shared-liquidity scheme<\/a> didn’t help sway the poker fortunes in the state. Meanwhile, U.S.-facing offshore operators continue to report hundreds of active users around the clock, which is partly backed by the multi-million prizes handed on weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How come PokerStars couldn’t replicate this in New\nJersey?<\/em> It’s rather simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n While these points all seem easy to solve, it would\ntake years of consistent effort. Legal card rooms would have to stay\nopen or years until the majority of states begin legalizing their own\npoker verticals. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once this is done, states will be able to join\ntogether and create a more attractive shared-liquidity program, which\nwill begin to divert attention from offshore operators. Why? Because\noffshore card rooms are not subject to the same standards as are\ntheir legal counterparts in the U.S. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n When given a fair choice, most players would opt for\nlegalized poker options closer to home. For this to become a reality,\nthough, states such as Michigan<\/a>\nand Kentucky will have to step up their game and introduce legal\npoker sooner than later. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PokerStars teases new project in Mount Airy Land-based card rooms still not as popular The U.S. needs more states to legalize poker to rival offshore card rooms PokerStars is joining Mount Airy Casino Resort with both an online and offline card room for players to enjoy. PokerStars to Introduce Land-Based Card Room in Mount Airy, […]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPokerStars to Introduce Land-Based Card Room in\nMount Airy, PA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Poker Remains the Least Prominent Vertical in the\nU.S. \n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n