This poker player from Philadelphia broke in to a fellow poker pro's home in Medford, New Jersey, where at that time a teen babysitter was looking after a toddler. Holding a gun, he demanded she show him where the homeowners ‘kept the money'.
Many poker players and fans alike know that it was thanks to American poker player Chris Moneymaker's historic win in the WSOP Main Event in 2003 that sparked the poker boom of the mid-noughties after he won $2.5 million from a humble $40 satellite qualifier at an online poker site.
On Wednesday, Amaya announced that its PokerStars and Full Tilt brands (currently more than 95 million registered costomers combined) had been authorised to operate in New Jersey, USA. Both sites have been "offline" in the United States for more than four years after Black Friday, so this is definitely good news to many online poker enthusiast in the state of New Jersey, where 888, partypoker and two other sites currently operate.
On Tuesday, the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, signed a bill to legalize intrastate online poker in New Jersey, making it the third state to approve such a measure - following Nevada and Delaware.
Many poker players and fans alike know that it was thanks to American poker player Chris Moneymaker's historic win in the WSOP Main Event in 2003 that sparked the poker boom of the mid-noughties after he won $2.5 million from a humble $40 satellite qualifier at an online poker site.
On Wednesday, Amaya announced that its PokerStars and Full Tilt brands (currently more than 95 million registered costomers combined) had been authorised to operate in New Jersey, USA. Both sites have been "offline" in the United States for more than four years after Black Friday, so this is definitely good news to many online poker enthusiast in the state of New Jersey, where 888, partypoker and two other sites currently operate. 
