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 [...]

The Alderney Gaming Control Commission, or AGCC, has declared it will hold a public hearing pertaining to grant Full Tilt Poker a gaming license. This follows the news of the new company in Ireland founded by Tapie called New Full Tilt Limited, as well as Pocket Kings (a Full Tilt company) hiring new employees for [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

In a surprise report by PokerUpdate, it seems that a Full Tilt Poker deal could be potentially done as soon as next week as their sources claim. It seems the external investor that Groupe Benard Tapie acquired was the push over the edge that they needed to get this deal done. Their sources go on [...]

In a large surprise to the poker world, Ray Bitar broke Full Tilt Poker’s silence by apologizing to the poker world in a brief interview with Pokernews.com. In it he detailed his apologies as well as his efforts to get Full Tilt sold to repay the poker community their lost funds. This interview has been [...]