Club Empire snaps up second online poker license from Nagaland gov’t

One day after awarding the state’s first online skill games license, the Nagaland government has issued its three more licenses, GLaws.in reported.

The first online skill games license was awarded last Wednesday to M/s K365 Web Assets Pvt Ltd, which operates online poker and rummy portal Khelo365.com. A day later, the Nagaland State Lotteries issued another license for a single game—in this case, poker—to Kolkata-based Club Empire Tech Pvt. Ltd.

According to GLaws.in’s Jay Sayta, Club Empire was the first company to secure a Letter of Intent (LOI) from the Nagaland government in August. The LOI is a provisional license issued for “a bouquet of skill games” under Rule 4(6) of the Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Games of Skill Rules, 2016.

Club Empire only offers online rummy at the moment, but founder and CEO Luv Kalra told the news outlet that they are looking to expand to other games such as eSports, virtual sports, binary options, virtual sports league fantasy games and poker, which was why he applied for the “bouquet of games” license option.