DraftKings NJ Online Casino Review & Bonus Code

To help New Jersey casino players better understand the value offered to them through online casino welcome bonuses, we tested every NJ online casino’s first deposit and no deposit bonus. This process required reviewing every bonus available at all 24 legal online casinos in New Jersey to determine which ones were part of the welcome bonus package.

We then evaluated the bonuses to see what the actual value was if a player was to create a new account at that casino and deposit $100. We baked all this information into our Actual Bonus Value (ABV) for welcome bonuses.

Unfortunately, at the time of our test — DraftKings was 1 of 3 NJ online casinos without any welcome bonus offer. In other words, they did not have a no deposit bonus new players or a first deposit bonus for new depositing players.

This resulted in an ABV of $0 and a 1-star rating. When compared to the state average of $52.26 for welcome bonuses, DraftKings fails to impress. Moreover, the last-ranked casino with an ABV, BetAmerica (TwinSpires), was still $16.69 greater than DraftKings.

Below are the three casinos that finished above DraftKings and the other two casinos without a welcome bonus offering.

19. William Hill (ABV $24.33)
20. PokerStars (ABV $20.86)
21. BetAmerica (ABV $16.69
22. DraftKings (ABV $0)
22. Pala Casino (ABV $0.00)
22. PartyCasino (ABV $0.00)

To determine the best no deposit bonus in New Jersey, we had to test the value of every casino’s no deposit bonus. To our surprise, most online casinos in New Jersey (17 of them) don’t have a no deposit promo.

Because it’s skewed so heavily towards $0.00, the seven (7) casinos that do give free play credits to new accounts don’t move the needle much for the state average value of $4.14. However, if we remove DraftKings and the other 16 casinos without a no deposit bonus, the average value jumps to $14.21 which is much more substantial.

Players interested in testing casinos or taking advantage of a no deposit bonus may want to bypass DraftKings in favor of one of the seven casinos below —  including BetMGM which has an ABV of $24.50 for its no deposit bonus.

Below are the 7 NJ online casinos with no deposit bonuses ranked according the their ABV.

1. BetMGM ($24.50 ABV)
2. Borgata ($19.60 ABV)
3. Ocean Resort ($13.53 ABV)
4. Scores Casino ($12.41 ABV)
5. Harrah’s ($9.80 ABV)
6. Caesars ($9.80 ABV)
7. Unibet ($9.80 ABV)

DraftKings has 506 total games in its library. They have a combination of popular casino game types like the ones below.

• Slots
• Live Dealer Games
• Table Games
• Video Poker

But, DraftKings also a variety of unique categories like:

• Jackpots
• DraftKings Games
• Keno
• Variety

The size of a casino’s game library is an important factor when considering different NJ online casinos. We decided to rank all the online casinos in New Jersey by the amount of games they currently have available.

This turned out to be one of the easier tests to conduct, but the insight we found was as important as any test. The range between #1 and #24 in our rankings was the widest of any test with first place (BetMGM) having 1,121 games and last place (William Hill) only having 39 games.

Across all New Jersey online casinos, the average was 550 total games. That means DraftKings’ 506 games was below average by approximately 44 games. DraftKings was still better than 10 other casinos including popular gambling brands like Ocean’s and Tropicana.

Below are three casinos that beat DraftKings in terms of number of games and three casinos that have fewer games.

11. Harrah’s (557 games)
12. Scores (535 games)
13. Hard Rock (515 games)
14. DraftKings (506 games)
15. Pala (502 games)
16. BetAmerica (422 games)
17. Stardust (371 games)

Customer support is important for any business, especially one that deals with other people’s money like an online casino. Therefore, we thought testing the email support for all 24 online casinos in New Jersey would be a good idea. Unfortunately, we quickly found out that casinos don’t really value email support — with only 5 casinos responding to all our emails.

Our test was simple, send 10 emails to every casino’s email support and track the responses. It was a lot of waiting. Some emails are still waiting for a response.

To avoid these anomalies, we set a 50% response threshold. DraftKings’ 70% response rate was good enough to meet our benchmark, but is responding to 7 out of 10 emails really that good?

In the context of other New Jersey online casinos, it was average. But, their 1.8-hour average response time was not average at all. In fact, it was one of the fastest times we tracked — beating out 20 of the other casinos we tested (PokerStars didn’t have an email support so their time wasn’t included).

Below shows the 3 casinos that finished above and below DraftKings in our email support test.

10. BetMGM (80.00% response rate)
11. Unibet (90.00% response rate)
12. Stardust (80.00% response rate)
13. DraftKings (70.00% response rate)
14. Mohegan Sun (60.00% response rate)
15. Resorts (60.00% response rate)
16. BetAmerica (80.00% response rate)

DraftKings actually has one of the more robust FAQ pages to help customers without needing to contact someone directly. However, you can also reach out to DraftKings NJ online casino via a Live Chat widget.

Page speed is an important factor that can directly affect your gameplay at online casinos. The longer a page takes to load, the longer it takes for you to play. That’s why we decided to test the page load speed for all 24 legal online casinos in New Jersey.

For our test, we focused on the following four pages at every casino.

• Slots Page: One of the largest pages from a resource perspective.
• Promotions Page: The area of the site for players to find active casino bonuses.
• Responsible Gaming Page: The part of the casino for gambling addiction support.
• Support Page: The area of the site for players to communicate with the casino or find answers to their questions.

Our test involved running Pingdom every 30 seconds for 7 straight days. By the end of the test, we had collected over 300 samples of page load speeds from every NJ online casino.This data set was then used to determine every casino’s average page load time. Our rankings for this test are based solely on site speed.

DraftKings only beat out 1 other casino — Golden Nugget (4.43 seconds) — and was one of the slowest casinos in New Jersey. To help put this in perspective, DraftKings’ 3.13 seconds was 530% slower than our winning time of  0.59 from Scores Casino.

Below shows the last 5 casinos in our average page load speed test ranked according to their times.

20. Borgata Casino (2.71 seconds)
21. Caesars Casino (2.89 seconds)
22. William Hill Casino (3.00 seconds)
23. DraftKings Casino (3.13 seconds)
24. Golden Nugget Casino (4.43 seconds)

Nobody likes to wait, and especially when they are excited or interested in something. For an online casino player, this can be amplified by the desire to win money, too. The longer you wait for a casino to load, the less you’ll enjoy your gaming experience.

More importantly, a slow-loading site can indicate larger issues in the back-end of the site which could mean future technical or safety issues. Even though DraftKings finished our test with one of the worst times (3.13 seconds), it’s still not likely to affect you as a player. It’s also not bad enough to raise any red flags with DraftKings’ tech.

In short, DraftKings is definitely not the fastest casino in New Jersey, but it’s not slow enough for you to be concerned.