Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 11, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

In the wake of the announcement of the Full Tilt Poker/PokerStars/DOJ deal being finalized, and with numerous details about the repayment of player funds and the future of Full Tilt poker and PokerStars, yet another twist has been added to the year-and-a-half-long saga that has been Black Friday.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 17, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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After the most recent round of rumors that a potential sale was in the works that would see Full Tilt poker taken over by Groupe Bernard Tapie, yet another month has gone by and there is still no official progress. However, unlike previous times, when “anonymous sources” statedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 03, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In what is being taken as a sign of an impending sale, Full Tilt Poker’s parent company Pocket Kings Ltd has posted 14 separate job openings on an Irish Internet Jobs Site. The job postings were made at the beginning of March, roughly one month ago, which lendsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 2 Comments »
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A fourth poker news outlet has come forward to say the Full Tilt Poker sale to Groupe Bernard Tapie is virtually a “done deal”. Citing an anonymous source, the website PocketFives.com quoted their man as saying, “They are finalizing the deal with U.S. Department of Justice, but it’sRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 14, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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There seems to be some good news for distraught online poker players from around the globe, however, the key word here is seems. Both eGaming Review and Gaming Intelligence are reporting that “sources” are saying a deal between Full Tilt Poker and Groupe Bernard Tapie is imminent; likelyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »
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Earlier this week it was reported, originally by Subject: Poker, that Chris Ferguson could have been single-handedly responsible for holding up the forfeiture of Full Tilt Poker’s assets to the US Department of Justice (and therefore holding up the eventual sale of the company’s assets by the DOJRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 08, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Many people in the poker industry have decried the handling of Full Tilt Poker by their former regulatory agency the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) and it seems that there are some people at the AGCC that would like to get to the bottom of precisely how theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 04, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the Full Tilt poker saga continuing to unfold, and the beleaguered site trying to deflect some of the blame onto the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) which revoked the site’s license last week, the AGCC decided to release a statement to help aid players looking with disputesRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 29, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

After the AGCC announced they would be revoking Full Tilt poker’s license (one of the four companies operating under the Full Tilt umbrella’s license was not revoked but remains suspended) Full Tilt poker released its own statement via PokerStrategy.com –which has become Full Tilt poker’s go-to site forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 29, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In the poker story that never dies, the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission released their decision from the recently concluded hearing into Full Tilt Poker, and the decision is not good news for Full Tilt or the rest of the poker community. The AGCC released two statements this morning,Read Full Article