Las Vegas Review Journal – State gaming regulators gave preliminary approval Thursday to a marketing agreement between Golden Gaming and Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings in which the tavern operator could deliver its customers as online poker players to a website that includes Treasure Island. Under terms of the exclusive marketing agreement, Golden Gaming can sign up customers from its three Pahrump casinos and its 40 wholly owned statewide taverns operations to play online poker on a planned website that will be operated by 888 Holdings. Golden Gaming would share in a percentage of the gaming revenues with Treasure Island and 888…

The road to Nevada online poker to residents of other states is long and tortuous and gaming regulators took a step in that journey Wednesday when the state Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop meeting on a proposal for companies to offer progressive jackpots across state lines. The state’s largest slot machine manufacturers — International Game Technology and Bally Technologies — petitioned the Nevada Gaming Commission to amend regulations to allow multi-jurisdictional progressive prizes. Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett concurred that adoption of the amendments to the regulation could be viewed as a first step toward developing online poker…

Tight Poker – Carbon Poker has turned out to be the first US friendly online poker room to offer real money mobile poker services to US players. So far, none of the online poker sites accepting US players have launched real money mobile poker apps for US residents. The beta version of the app was launched in February, and in early August, a group of volunteers from TwoPlusTwo Forum agreed to give it a beta test. Since the app is web-based, it is compatible with all mobile devices although Ryan, a representative for Carbon Poker, said that the online poker…

Card Player – The poker room at Circus Circus Las Vegas just closed recently, according to reports. Card Player spoke on the phone with an individual from the casino and she said it has been shuttered “indefinitely,” but declined to provide any other information. The poker room was located near the entrance of the main casino and offered just five cash-game tables. The casino itself was most recently renovated in 2013. Circus Circus Las Vegas is a hotel and 126,000-square-foot casino located on the Las Vegas Strip. It opened in 1968 and now is owned and operated by MGM Resorts…

Poker Fuse – As the new online poker client was rolling out late last week, a bwin.party representative confirmed that the fee for withdrawals to e-wallets is a permanent change. Late last month, PartyPoker introduced a $4+3% fee for all withdrawals to Skrill and Neteller. There was some hope among players that the change was introduced to curb abuse of a month-long Skrill promotion, which rewarded players cashback for using the service. However, a spokesperson for bwin.party has now confirmed that the fee will remain, and it is also now applied to withdrawals through the WebMoney ewallet. The fee was…

Poker Update – If you have a gaming company with operations in Denmark, chances are you are probably doing quite well on the financial side of things. That is, unless your operations deal solely or mainly in the game of poker. Figures released by the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) have shown that gross gaming online poker revenues in the Scandinavian country have fallen in the second quarter of this year. Danish poker revenues in Q2 totalled around $8.9 million, a drop from the $9.8 million in poker revenues during the same time in 2012. That does not seem like a…