Online poker advocates played a major role in bringing legal online casino gaming to New Jersey in late 2013 (just days after Delaware opened up shop — the same sequence that would play out when both states launched sports betting in mid-2018).
And by the time New Jersey regulators first separated “peer-to-peer” (online poker) from “casino” (everything else, most significantly online slot machines) in September 2014, online poker accounted for about 20% of the $10 mm or so in gross gaming revenues for the industry.