Former Revel casino opens free-play gambling site

Glenn Straub is attempting to attract future customers to its renamed venue Ten by setting up a free to play gambling site for the casino.

US.- Former Revel casino in Atlantic City is drawing potential customers in order to build its clientele in case it opens again. Owner Glenn Straub plans to reopen the venue under the name Ten and has launched a free-play, just-for-fun gambling site for the casino.

The website gives credits for online slot machines and table games to newly registered visitors like they do in New Jersey’s regulated internet gambling sites. Theres no money involved per se, but players have the possibility to buy credits once their free ones expire.

The state Casino Control Commission ruled last month that Straub needs to obtain a casino licence despite he argues that he doesn’t. His argument is based in the hiring of Connecticut developer Robert Landino to run the casino and he is suing New Jersey’s regulators for it. This allegation has been answered with a statement which indicates Straub still retains sufficient control over the property in order to need a license. Later this year, an appeals court will make a decision on the conflict.

“It’s going to be a full-blown casino,” Straub said late Monday. “If everyone else is doing (internet gambling), he’ll do it,” he added about Landino.

A company can get a license for internet gambling in New Jersey either by obtaining one for a physical venue and applying later to offer online gambling or building a partnership with an existing casino license.

Straub was inquired about the possibility of applying for an internet gambling license of his own or connecting to another casino’s one and he said cuttingly: “Hell no.”

There’s a good perspective for Ten casino since most of New Jersey’s licensed internet gambling providers set up free-play sites before they launched including the Borgata, Caesars Entertainment, Tropicana, Golden Nugget and Resorts.