Legal Online Casinos To Be Available To Select Delaware Residents Starting Thursday

Fully legal, state-sanctioned and regulated Internet gambling is coming to the great state of Delaware—but some Delaware gamers may be able to play a little sooner than others.

According to recent reports, Delaware’s lottery officials are seeking to launch real money online gambling with a select group of what the article describes as “preferred players”—who these players are remains a mystery.

Delaware is one of the first states in the country to green light legal Internet gambling endeavors. Nevada introduced legal online poker, affiliated with several prominent Vegas casinos, earlier in the year. New Jersey is officially launching its own legal online gaming endeavors in late November, and Delaware is likely to be next in line.

According to Vernon Kirk, the lottery director for Delaware, the state’s officials are eying a kind of soft launch for its online gambling measures—a soft launch that will come as early as October 31. The soft launch will allow the state to test, tweak, and fine-tune its Internet gambling options, ensuring everything is in working order before the official launch, later on.

State officials are mum on the topic of who these preliminary players are; they are also remaining silent on how many of them there are and how they were chosen to participate.

Kirk has not been silent in hinting that the Delaware gaming officials are trying to learn from the mistakes made by the federal government in its Obamacare rollout, seeking to make sure that the launch of platforms to provide legal online gambling in Delaware is smooth and without any problems with transfers between casino and player bank accounts. The soft launch is meant as a troubleshooting expedition, in advance of the full online gambling launch next month.

Reports also make note of the involvement of the Video Lottery Advisory Council, an industry group that represents the three casinos located in Delaware. The casinos, the article states, are suffering financially due to heavy competition from neighboring states—foremost among them New Jersey. As such, these casinos have a major interest in seeing that the revenue-boosting Internet gaming endeavors are launched without a hitch.

Indeed, the Council has made several recommendations that it hopes to see implemented when Delaware launches legal online gambling in earnest—among the recommendations, a change in the revenue sharing structure for slot machines. The Council has also requested that the state remove its licensing fees for blackjack and other table games.

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