Poker Player Blog

Absolute Poker in Court—In court this week Brent Beckley, the co founder of Absolute Poker website plead guilty to charges. Beckley admitted before the court that he knowingly filtered American player funds through cover companies so their payment could be processed by American banks. In American online gambling is illegal and most banks will automatically [...]

Bodog Back in American Market—Bodog Poker voluntarily withdrew from the American market in the summer due to fears of closure by the U.S. Department of Justice but it seems they are making a return. Bodog has returned to the U.S. Market offering cash money games through a new website Bovada.lv. The domain “lv” is reserved [...]

Full Tilt Hearing Prompts AGCC Independent Inquiry-–The Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) has begun its own independent investigation of their actions in regards to Full Tilt Poker. Because the Full Tilt Affair has been so public and because the company still owes its former customers somewhere in the region of $300 million, AGCC seems to [...]

Tapie Full Tilt Deal Reached—At the end of last week the U.S. Department of Justice gave French investor Groupe Bernard Tapie the right to buy the ill-fated and often mentioned Full Tilt Poker empire. Seems as though they have with a purchase price of $80 million. The U.S. government had confiscated the assets of Full [...]

NHUPC Canceled—The National Heads-Up Championship (NHUPC). With no budget for advertising, promotion or pricey entrance fee for professional players the tournament has been canceled indefinitely. PokerStars and Full Tilt were major advertising players in the NHUPC but of course they are banned from operating in any way shape or form on American soil. Without the [...]

There may be other things happening in the world of poker but the issue on most online players minds is the state of the Full Tilt poker site, it’s possible legal issues and the chances that players, loyal customers of the company, will receive the money that they are owed. So what’s happened in the [...]

Full Tilt Fears Increase: Warrant Issued—We all know that Full Tilt’s Black Friday Fallout continues to make headlines and today is no exception. It was announced on pokernewsdaily.com that the state of New York has issued a warrant to seize the assets of the individuals that have been named in the Full Tilt civil complaint. [...]

In the last couple of weeks the saga of the Full Tilt online poker folks has saturated the poker chat rooms, blogs and forums like a piece of wet tissue paper you just can’t seem to get off your shoe. In between the federal shut downs and thievery, blame shifting and secret meetings there have [...]

Full Tilt Not Paying Players? — According to Pokernewsdaily and the folks over at EGR magazine, Full Tilt has had enough of their assets unfrozen by the Department of Justice to pay out one third of the U.S. players. The amount available is somewhere in the 60 million dollar range. But Full Tilt says its [...]

With online gaming so up in the air, its difficult to think of anything else but the eventual outcome. Players are calculated odds while owners are calculating reimbursements. Well some of them at least. Here’s a few things that happened this week. Black Friday Not Poker Related?—At a gaming conference held this past week in [...]