Card Player – It has been speculated that Nevada and New Jersey could share their respective populations for online gambling starting sometime next year, and on Wednesday Nevada regulators discussed some of the changes that would need to occur to the rules currently on the books in order to make something like that possible. The Internet gaming regulations in the Silver State, which were first adopted in December 2011, would need to be amended in order to allow for such deals to be brokered. “I can’t enter into any compacts or agreements with other states until the Gaming Control Board…

Poker Fuse – Upstart social poker site, Sponge Poker, has taken to crowd funding with hopes to raise money to help increase its market share. Citing themselves as “the most realistic” poker game online, CEO Alex Kim and his team are hoping that their patent-pending interface, along with some incentives, can help them raise money to bring new players to their new platform. Sponge Poker’s hook is their unique take on the traditional online poker interface. Players can “see” each others “actions” in real time during the hand, potentially giving off betting/folding tells or even generating false tells. According to…

Poker Fuse – This week, Infiniti Poker is providing a bitcoin incentive to potential beta testers. The test is designed to prove their financial and Prestige Club Point accounting systems “to ensure accuracy, efficiency and effectiveness.” In an exclusive interview with pokerfuse last year, CEO Michael Hajduk said that Infiniti Poker is “all about connections, charity connections, meeting people, seeing old friends.” He says he is not attempting to rival PokerStars, but to create “the new paradigm of online gaming” and a platform “more exciting than PokerStars.” He wants to create a poker room that recreates the social experience of…

Poker News – The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival kicks off on Saturday at the popular Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, just 20 minutes from downtown Montreal. The 17-event festival is headlined by a C$1,000 buy-in, C$1 Million Guarantee Main Event, starting on Friday Sept. 27, and includes a “win the button” tournament, a deepstack turbo, a “PLO 3-lives” tournament, and a big ante tournament. There are still numerous packages available for the Main Event on the Full Tilt client. If you can’t afford to play in these low-stakes satellites, then you can also earn your seat in the Main…

Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nevada’s second online poker website launched Thursday. So now the market is over-saturated. Time will tell if Ultimate Poker, which has been accepting wagers since April 30, and WSOP.com can generate enough players within the confines of Nevada’s borders to co-exist. Meanwhile, at least three other real money websites — 888 Poker, Treasure Island and the South Point — could go live by year’s end. Nevada’s relatively small customer base isn’t changing. Competition, however, will increase. We don’t yet know the size of the Nevada market because the Gaming Control Board won’t break out monthly revenues…

nPoker 777 – The sharing of liquid assets is an idea shared by different European regulated markets of online poker. The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego, the Spanish online gambling authority, asserted this week its will to share the liquid assets with Italy. According to its president Carlos Hernandez, this perspective is the step of a discussion with the other regulated markets of poker in Europe. The big boss of the Iberian Authority of regulation of the market showed his will for a common liquidity with the Transalpine market since April, but remains nevertheless careful on the impacts of…