In place of our usual Friday Wrap weekly column I’ve decided to run a Black Friday Wrap, detailing some of the recent developments in the still-ongoing Black Friday saga that began nearly a year ago on April 15,2011. There have been a number of developments on the BlackRead Full Article
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
This is our weekly look at the top stories in the world of poker. This week all was fairly quiet on the tournament front, but there was plenty of rumor, gossip, and speculation to more than make up for it! This week we saw a high-profile banned fromRead Full Article
WickedChopsPoker.com is the latest outlet to claim that the Full Tilt Poker deal to Groupe Bernard Tapie is slated to happen soon. According to the Insider’s Section of the popular poker website (which resides behind a paywall) unnamed sources have told Wicked Chops that Groupe Bernard Tapie isRead Full Article
Last week saw a number of online gaming outlets posting stories about an imminent sale of Full Tilt Poker, possibly as soon as this past Friday. Well, Friday has come and gone, and there hasn’t been a single word of a deal or progress on a deal; whichRead Full Article
It was another busy week of headlines across the poker world, and in addition to the EPT Madrid tournament taking place in Europe, there was plenty of poker news coming in away from the tables. Here is a look at the top stories over the past week fromRead Full Article
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
It appears that Subject: Poker isn’t the only online poker site that has been receiving some inside information on the Full Tilt Poker sale to Groupe Bernard Tapie, as the website WickedChops Poker is reporting that a source close to the company claims that the re-launch of FullRead Full Article
After an interview by Groupe Bernard Tapie lawyer Behnam Dayanim to Gaming Intelligence the poker world was abuzz over the revelation that several high-profile members of Team Full Tilt Poker owed the company somewhere between $10 million and $20 million in unpaid loans. However, it was another playerRead Full Article
It appears all of last week’s talk about Chris Ferguson single-handedly holding up the sale of Full Tilt Poker to Groupe Bernard Tapie (a deal being brokered by the United States Department of Justice) was off the mark, as it came to light today that player loans fromRead Full Article