Pala Interactive debuts New Jersey online poker site

Tribal gaming operator Pala Interactive has added a poker product to its New Jersey online gambling operations.

On Tuesday, Pala Interactive announced the launch of PalaPoker.com for both desktop and mobile poker players residing in the state of New Jersey. The poker site, which is currently in open beta testing, follows the 2014 launch of Pala’s New Jersey online casino and the 2016 launch of PalaBingoUSA.com.

Like its casino site, PalaPoker will operate under the Borgata casino’s interactive gaming license, but Pala won’t be sharing poker liquidity with the other sites on the Borgata network, opting instead to operate as a standalone site.

Pala Interactive, majority owned by California’s Pala Band of Mission Indians, is headed by ex-PartyGaming CEO Jim Ryan. In 2015, Ryan told CalvinAyre.com’s Rebecca Liggero that the site’s poker product was basically “ready to go” but the company now says it’s spent the past three years “building a new poker platform.”