BY TOM SOMACH

A woman accused of stabbing her poker player husband to death in an exclusive Las Vegas condominium has been indicted on murder charges.

She faces life in prison if convicted.

The woman, 49-year-old Jill Rockcastle, is to be arraigned May 31 in the slaying of 44-year-old William Gustafik.

Gustafik was a former California chiropractor who became a Las Vegas poker pro and used the name “The Manipulator.”

The indictment handed down in Clark County District Court in Nevada accuses Rockcastle of premeditated murder in the knifing, which was discovered on April 13, 2007.

Rockcastle was found unconscious three days later in a bed-and-breakfast motel room in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Police said she sent confessing e-mails to friends after the killing.

She then left a note in a car for her children, police said, before overdosing on some medication.

She was hospitalized for the overdose and later extradited from California to Nevada, where she has been held since May 4 without bail at the Clark County jail.

Gustafik finished 280th in last year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, a no-limit, Texas hold ‘em tournament.

He won almost $39,000.

He also participated in numerous other WSOP and World Poker Tour (WPT) competitions and finished in the money nine times, for total winnings of about $167,000.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)