On Thursday we finally heard from Absolute Poker, which was the only poker room yet to respond to the seizures and indictments handed down this past Friday by the DOJ and FBI. The statement from Absolute Poker shows them moving in a slightly different direction than PokerStars andRead Full Article

The first plea after the incredible events that took place in the online poker world on Friday has been entered, and it was payment processor Bradley Franzen entering a not guilty plea to a number of charges including money laundering. The 41 year-old Franzen “is president of aRead Full Article

As the fallout from Friday’s news that the DOJ and FBI had shutdown and seized the domain names of the four largest online poker rooms in the United States continued to roll throughout the night, both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars both made the decision to leave theRead Full Article

We received our first word from PokerStars on Friday evening regarding the day’s events which left the online poker world in absolute bedlam as the Department of Justice and the FBI shut down the three largest online poker rooms serving the US market. In addition to the crackdownRead Full Article

Not long after PokerStars issued their statement where they basically reinforced the position that their players’ money is safe at the online poker site, Full Tilt Poker came out with their own statement where owner Raymond Bitar –one of the men named in the indictment—was a bit moreRead Full Article

For most of Friday afternoon it would have seemed that the apocalypse was upon us, especially if your Twitter and Facebook accounts are as jam-packed with poker players as mine is! Fortunately as the day wore on and more and more details emerged it went from apocalyptic toRead Full Article