It hasn’t been a stellar year for New Jersey gaming, with their land based casinos taking a real hit and their online poker rooms continuing to fall well short of original expectations.

The worldwide online poker cash game player count dropped by 1% this week, which wasn’t unexpected due to the holidays having people busy with celebrating and having less time to play poker.

The U.S. regulated poker market saw a decline this week. Bodog captured the title of number one remaining US friendly site and has been gathering momentum ever since. Santa Ysabel Indians vow to fight for real money gaming.

Things were very stable this week - PokerStars has reaffirmed its place as the king of online poker. PokerStars boasts more cash-game players than the next 10 most popular poker sites combined.

The Santa Ysabel Indians of California have been proclaiming their desire to offer online poker in spite of whatever the wishes of state legislators may be. At the same time Russia has passed a bill that clearly makes playing online poker illegal in the country.

The worldwide online poker cash game market dipped by a total of 7% this week, giving back most of the 10% gain it delivered the week before.

The online poker market saw a huge jump this week, climbing by a massive 10%. There are rumors that industry giant PokerStars is at least considering adding bitcoin as an accepted currency on their site.

Santa Ysabel Indians of California launching a real money online poker site PrivateTable. Connective Games, the Russian based company which operates Europe Bet has now set up shop in Malta.

The Canadian online poker market is considered by many to be a “grey market”. Canadians wonder if PokerStars will pull out of the market like some operator already did.

Ultimate Poker folded its hand, leaving WSOP as the only poker room left in Nevada. PokerStars has been in the news lately about their rake increases and the unhappiness of a lot of their players.