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  • Diamond Flush Poker has leaked a surprising and quite peculiar e-mail that Laurent Tapie sent to the “key staff” of Full Tilt Poker (FTP). He mailed it out just hours before Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) officially stated that they had dropped out of negotiations to buy FTP. What was made crystal clear in the e-mail [...]

  • 8:30 PM ET Update: Diamond Flush spilled details of how players would have been repaid had the GBT gone through: Players with an account balance of less than $ 100 could be repaid in full or have that balance credited to their players account in the new company, virtually immediately. According to some sources, this [...]

  • posted on April 17th, 2012

    Former Full Tilt Poker execs Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer have been named in a new class action lawsuit.

  • posted on April 15th, 2012

    Today marks the one-year anniversary of Black Friday, a day of monumental significance that devastated the very core of online poker in the United States, the aftermath of which has affected the lives of poker players to this very day. On this day one year ago, the FBI launched a crackdown on Full Tilt Poker, [...]

  • It has now been one full year since April 15th, 2011 when the Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down a number of major online poker sites who had been servicing American card players. Dubbed “Black Friday” by players around the world, Americans found themselves completely shut out from accessing even the dot.com (US domain) websites [...]

  • It appears that 888 will soon become a household name among poker and casino players. Despite many online poker sites being hit hard by Black Friday, 888 Poker did extremely well in 2011. Their poker site revenue increased 58%, the number of active customers increased a reported 58% while new player recruitment was up 77%. [...]

  • Yesterday it was announced to the poker world that Pocket Kings LTD, otherwise known as Full Tilt Poker was hiring employees, specifically relations managers who could speak different languages, like French, Spanish and German. Today CardPlayer announced that Full Tilt Poker had applied for a a gaming license from Orinic, a company with ties to [...]

  • posted on March 29th, 2012

    In a surprise move made by the U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the prosecution was forced to explain why John Campos of First Sun Trust, a former banking executive who made pre Black Friday money processing possible, was offered such a minor plea deal. The prosecution had offered to let Campos off on a [...]

  • The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has unveiled a third-party review of their revocation of Full Tilt Poker’s operating license.

  • posted on March 26th, 2012

    Daniel Kim Tzvetkoff seems to be many things to many different people.  He is a son who was born in October, 1983, in Ipswich, Queensland.  He is a genius who started a web design business when he was only 13 years old.  He is an entrepreneur who founded Intabill, an online billing company, with Sam [...]

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