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The “PokerStars exclusively on FanDuel” era of online poker in the United States is upon us. On Wednesday, April 1, PokerStars officially became part of the FanDuel app in Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
The legacy PokerStars app is dead in the US; Stars shut down poker games on it on Tuesday night. It is still available for download, as players can login at withdraw funds until April 30.
Unlike in other situations where a poker operator launches new software, player accounts and balances will not transfer to the FanDuel app. It’s a whole new thing. PokerStars players who don’t have FanDuel accounts will have to create them fresh, new screen name and everything. Those who already have FanDuel accounts can just login and play.
Whichever bucket a player is in, everyone has access to a deposit bonus of 100% up to $1,000, with a $10 minimum deposit. Additionally, PokerStars is offering players two $5 Spin & Go tickets and a $20 Sunday Million satellite ticket.
Expanding player liquidity
There are two primary upshots of the new PokerStars exclusively on FanDuel, both related to player liquidity. By putting PokerStars on the FanDuel app rather than keeping it in its own ecosystem, many more people will be exposed to poker. Everyone who uses FanDuel to be on sports or play online casino games will see poker when they open the app and perhaps give it a shot, as they can use the same FanDuel wallet for everything.
The other major development is that Pennsylvania has now finally joined Michigan and New Jersey in a three-headed interstate online poker network. Pennsylvania joined the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA) nearly a year ago, and while other poker rooms linked up with their counterparts in other states, PokerStars did not. It seems that Stars may have been waiting for the merger with FanDuel.
For the moment, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are it for PokerStars in the US. Now that the transition to FanDuel is done, though, some in the industry are speculating that PokerStars could launch in other states where online poker is legal. Nothing is believed to be imminent, but West Virginia has online poker and could be a target, and poker becomes legal in Maine next year. Nevada is doubtful – it was the first state to have legal, regulated online poker and has only had one online poker room for years (WSOP Online). If it was an attractive online poker state, one of the big players probably would have made a move by now.
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