Full Tilt Poker (FTP) is back in the news again. Last week, Behnam Dayanim, the legal representative of Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT), said that professional poker players previously sponsored by FTP, such as Erick Lindgren, Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, and Barry Greenstein, who have debts with the online poker room, are [...]

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Laurent Tapie of Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT), the French investment company specializing in resurrecting fallen companies, said that GBT’s acquisition of Full Tilt Poker (FTP) is on the verge of getting completed. Speaking to iGaming France, an online gambling journal, Laurent Tapie, the managing director of GBT, said that he hopes the deal will be [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 10, 2012

An important court ruling has given aggrieved ex Full Tilt Poker (FTP) players in the US an opportunity to file cases against FTP in court. FTP is believed to owe its ex players in the US some $150 million.
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On April 15, 2011, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 10, 2012

The email and the PokerStars accounts of professional poker player Daniel Negreanu, who is a member of Team PokerStars Pro, were hacked by an unknown person recently. The hacker made merry at the high-stakes tables of PokerStars using Negreanu’s poker money, as a result of which the online poker player lost $61,000. Negreanu recently posted [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 9, 2012

A number of factors keep popping into the limelight as Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT), a French investment company, gets closer to completing its acquisition of Full Tilt Poker (FTP) and its assets. While some of these factors might have an adverse effect on the acquisition, some have nothing to do with it.
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Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 9, 2012

The PokerStars.fr European Poker Tour (EPT) 2012 Deauville Main Event came to an end on the night of Monday, with Vadzim Kursevich emerging as the winner. He played against a field of 889 opponents.
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When Kursevich entered the final table, he had the second largest stack of chips, but [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 8, 2012

A Manhattan-based federal judge has ruled against the dismissal of the April indictment, indicating success for the criminal poker case filed by the US federal government.
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Lewis Kaplan, the judge of the Manhattan court, ruled against dismissing the federal government’s case against John Campos, the former vice chairman of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 8, 2012

The schedule for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012 was released with a number of modifications.
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WSOP 2012 will comprise 61 events, commencing on May 27 and closing on July 16, and will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. But this year, WSOP [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 4, 2012

Full Tilt Poker, which was almost destroyed following the incidents of April 15, 2011, a day commonly referred to as Black Friday in the online poker gaming world, is on the verge of being resurrected.
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On Black Friday, the US federal government cracked down on big online poker rooms [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 4, 2012

PokerStars, the largest online poker room in the world, is now gearing up for its 75 billionth hand. As loyal players at PokerStars already know, the online poker room is on an exciting journey along the “Road to 100 Billion.”
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On the occasion of its tenth birthday, which was [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | February 3, 2012