Ocean Resort guests who are currently registered on the casino’s loyalty programme, Ocean Premier, can now start collecting and exchanging their reward points that they earn from on-property gaming for cash online.

The internet casino is now up and running on OceanOnlineCasino.com. In the future, the site expects to provide users with online sports betting, subject to customary and regulatory approval.

"Ocean Resort Casino is a fabulous casino property, unarguably offering the best quality gaming and hotel in Atlantic City, which has now been optimised for success by the new ownership and leadership,” said GAN chief executive Dermot Smurfit. “We're privileged to bring this immense property to life online, just as it re-launches in the traditional retail casino market.”

Ocean Resort Casino CEO Frank Leone added: "GAN delivered efficiently and cost-effectively for Ocean Resort Casino and possesses a strategic patent which will give Ocean Resort Casino a competitive advantage with casino guests in Atlantic City who also choose to gamble online.

“Furthermore, GAN's proven platform, 'dual-mode' Simulated Gaming, as well as real money internet gaming and track record of client success in the New Jersey market, are among the many reasons we chose GAN to bring Ocean Resort Casino online in 2018."

Ocean Resort Casino is GAN’s second client to deliver both online and on-property services using GANS social gaming platform.

The launch comes shortly after the US Supreme Court overturned a federal ban (PASPA) to legalise sports betting within the state.