On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 the state of Nevada became the first to have launched a legal online poker site, and the first in the country since the events of Black Friday that effectively shut down legal online poker in the United States. This inaugural legal poker site for Nevada residents is called Ultimate Poker and is run by Station Casinos, which operates live, brick-and-mortar casinos in the state as well.
Right now Station Casinos has just a 30-day license for the Ultimate Poker site while it handles meeting the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s requirements to be granted a formal license.
Right now the Ultimate Poker site will offer 21-year old Nevada gamers nightly online poker games with a $1,000 prize pool and two $10,000 games on Sundays. Right now players can either deposit funds through bank wire or by mailing in a check, or visiting one of the brick-and-mortar Station Casinos.
It is no doubt that the 20 or so other providers looking to set up shop in Nevada, as well as those way across the country in New Jersey and Delaware where online poker and Internet gambling intrastate also got recenlty passed, will be watching closely how this first legal US poker site in several years fares.
Notice that instead of the old 18 year old age requirement, in order to play at Ultimate Poker, a player must certify and prove that they are 21 years of age or older.
Ultimate Poker is affiliated with the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship).