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US online poker update 2024

20 November 2024


There are now eight states with legal online poker, and more are looking to regulate the activity in 2025. However, internet poker still lags behind online casino games and sports betting.

What's holding web-based poker back? And could multi-state agreements help the industry expand even more?

Expanding online poker in America could be helped via shared liquidity. That is, an agreement between states to allow players to share the same virtual tables. Also known as "multi-state online poker", this is a method for states to regulate real money online poker in the United States by connecting their online poker rooms together. For example, players on WSOP in Nevada play alongside those on WSOP in New Jersey and Michigan.

Also called cross-state or interstate online poker, this concept is very important to the poker world because it means there are more players in the overall player pool. It makes for bigger tournaments and more cash game action, allowing ope