Card Player – The Golden Nugget has partnered with Amaya Gaming Group Inc. for its real-money online poker offerings in the United States, which includes New Jersey and Nevada. Amaya will provide the content and help run the back-end of goldennuggetpoker.com and goldennuggetcasino.com, which will serve as the brands. The deal is subject to regulatory approval. Golden Nugget operates four Golden Nugget Hotels and Casinos between Nevada, New Jersey and Mississippi. Its fifth location was recently announced for a site in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Nevada already has online poker underway, while New Jersey will launch next month. Golden just recently…

Card Player – The launch of Delaware real-money online poker doesn’t seem to be generating quite the fanfare of Nevada or New Jersey, but everything is still looking good for a kickoff on Halloween, the state’s lottery director told Card Player on Friday. Its moves into the online space have made Nevada “anxious to compact with us,” Delaware Lottery Director Vernon Kirk said. The Silver State launched online poker back in April. Delaware has less than a million people and just a few gambling facilities, but that hasn’t stopped it from being very concerned with regional competition for gamblers. The…

So poker is a game of skill? Officially? Well, there was some huge news last week for poker players in India. According to reporting from the Bangalore Mirror, the Indian Poker Association (IPA), in petitions filed before the High Court of Karnataka (a state in Southwest India), had alleged that police officers were “humiliating and harassing aspiring poker players by filing cases against them.” The court eventually came to the conclusion that poker is a game of skill, which is widely acknowledge in the United States and elsewhere, and that card clubs don’t have to have a license to offer…

US Poker – The face of the US online poker industry has changed at several points during its 15-year life.  The biggest contributing factors were the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and Black Friday.  The online poker industry has always learned to adjust.  The biggest hurdle currently facing it is access to reliable and legitimate payment processing. One other factor facing the US-friendly offshore poker sites is that regulation in the US is inevitable.  Three states have already regulated online poker and many more are expected to do so in the coming years.  The PPA predicted California, which is 12%…

Poker News – As you may well know, the United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) heads to the home of PokerStars at the end of October for the inaugural UKIPT Isle of Man festival. PokerNews cannot wait to explore the PokerStars headquarters (pictured), something that no media outlet has ever done before. With the poker community tingling with anticipation at heading to the home of PokerStars, PokerNews thought it would be fun to look at some PokerStars-related data and discovered that some of those figures are mind-blowing. The Rational Group, the parent company of PokerStars, employs a staff of…

Card Player – Tom McEvoy and Scotty Nguyen will become the 45th and 46th individuals to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. The announcement came Sunday from the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. The Poker Hall of Fame is owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp. As has become tradition, McEvoy and Nguyen will be inducted officially on Sunday, November 3 at 5:00 p.m. at the Rio Las Vegas a day before the 2013 World Series of Poker main event final table gets underway. At 68 years of age, McEvoy was the oldest among the finalists. He has four…

Poker News – Last month, the Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), the company tasked with redistributing seized Full Tilt Poker funds to U.S. players, sent email notices to “all potentially eligible petitioners GCG identified utilizing data supplied by Full Tilt Poker” to file a Petition for Remission, which they can do until Nov. 16, 2013. The GCG has now updated their Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQ”) section to answer the question: Are Full Tilt Points, Iron Man Medals and other bonuses going to be refunded or included in my account balance? Unfortunately for players, the answer is no. “Full Tilt Points…

Card Player – A new study has come out that pegs the New Jersey online poker market, which will kick off on Nov. 26, at between $39 million and $65 million during its first 12 months. The industry could grow to between $55 million and $92 million in year ten. Those figures represent the amount poker players could end up spending in rake for tournaments and cash games. In other words, it’s the online casino’s revenue from its poker room. The research is according to a new report by Academicon and PokerScout. The researchers analyzed data on 4.6 million real…