PHILLY.COM: …The cards are dealt, on the screen, four tables going at once, a far cry from the 20 poker games this former tax lawyer used to fire up on her computer screen in Mexico, where she would spend hour after twitchy hour playing online Texas hold ’em.
“My boyfriend and I would sit all day and not talk to each other except when one of us would say, ‘Wanna order out?’ ” [Jamie] Kerstetter, 31, recalled.
At least now she’s in New Jersey playing online poker, one of 150,000 accounts created since online gambling went live Nov. 21. Jersey gamblers have left revenue of $8.4 million on virtual poker tables, blackjack, and slots since, well below projections by the state. Online poker accounted for $2.89 million in revenue… (more)
