Card Player – Ultimate Poker, the first online poker room in the state of Nevada, has debuted real-money pot-limit Omaha tables. Those cash games first ran on Wednesday. The site hit Nevada cyberspace to much fanfare in April of this year. Right now, the site is offering six-handed tables of $1-$2 pot-limit Omaha and $0.10-$0.25 pot-limit Omaha. More stakes and games are expected to come as time goes on. Ultimate Poker and the product from the World Series of Poker are the only two sites operating in the Silver State. Their respective traffic has been steady of late. Only those…

M Live – 44-year-old Flint (Michigan) man is accused of killing his brother after an argument over a poker game, prosecutors say. Andre L. Moore is charged with open murder, two counts of felony firearms and felon in possession, according to John Potbury, spokesman for Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton. Jeffery Bernard Moore Sr. was shot in the chest around 5:15 a.m. in the 600 block of West Hamilton Avenue. A group of men were over at Moore’s house playing poker when his brother, Jeffery Bernard Moore Sr., was caught cheating, Potbury said. Andre Moore became upset and kicked everyone…

Las Vegas Review-Journal – The Nevada Gaming Commission will discuss several changes to the state’s Internet gaming regulations at its regular meeting monthly meeting Thursday in Las Vegas. Adding other casino games, such as blackjack and slot machines to Nevada’s current poker-only status, however, is not under consideration. Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett said there are no plans for the state to move beyond Internet poker. “We’re only six months into poker,” Burnett said. “For now, we want to prove out poker first.” Only two pay-to-play real money websites are currently operating in Nevada; UltimatePoker.com, which is majority owned…

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…