Full Tilt Poker Weekly News Update 04/15/2013

1. Ticket Sale

Now you can turn your Full Tilt Points into real-money prizes by taking advantage of Full Tilt Poker Ticket Sale, running from 12:00 ET Friday, April 12th through 23:59 ET on Sunday, April 21st in the Full Tilt Store.

Ring game tickets are sold with at least a 20% discount; At least a 16% discount is available on all Sit & Go Tickets and all Tournament Tickets are available with a 10%+ discount.

Discounted tickets are available for:

• Ring Games
• Sit & Gos
• Steps Tournaments
• FTOPS Events
• MiniFTOPS Events
• The $350K Guarantee
• The Big Game of the Week
• The Sunday Brawl
• Double Deuce

2. 6 days left until the Mini FTOPS kickoff!

Starting on April 21st, MiniFTOPS is basically the FTOPS, but the buy in’s are 1/10 of the regular FTOPS. The biggest tournaments of the series include:

• The MiniFTOPS Main Event with a $75 buy-in
• The MiniFTOPS Two-Day Event with a $216 buy-in
• The $26 No-Limit Hold ‘em 6-Max Knockout Event

Satellites to the MiniFTOPS events are available for as little as $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points starting from April 1st. MiniFTOPS XXII Satellite Challenge will be available just like in the regular FTOPS.

The MiniFTOPS also offers a leaderboard, the winner of which will receive the same prize package as the winner of the regular FTOPS leaderboard, which includes a custom avatar and entry to every FTOPS XXIII event (except the Two-Day Event).

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4. Current game of the week – FL Hold 'em

Take part in "Game of the Week" promotion to earn double Full Tilt points and compete for huge prizes while trying out a variety of games available at Full Tilt Poker!

Each week, a new game format will be assigned as the "game of the week." From Monday to Sunday, all regular tournaments, Sit & Go tournaments and ring games running in that game format will offer double the amount of Full Tilt points.

During the week a series of tournaments with a guaranteed prize pool will be held in the game of the week format, which will end with the big Game of the Week tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $20,000 every Sunday at 15:30 ET.

The current Game of the Week is FL Hold 'em.

For more information visit FullTiltPoker.com

5. Ray Bitar pleads guilty

This week Ray Bitar, the former CEO of Full Tilt Poker, pleaded guilty to criminal charges brought against him concerning what poker players have dubbed "Black Friday." According to the preliminary verdict Bitar will be able to avoid prison, but he will have to forfeit nearly $40 million in assets.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Ray's lawyer said that his client is suffering from serious health problems and needed a heart transplant. This also played a role in the decision to not sentence Bitar to prison time.

After the events of "Black Friday", Full Tilt Poker has been acquired by the same company that operates PokerStars, which returned all money owed to players worldwide, except for the US where the process was handed over to the DOJ.

“The driving factor in this sentence is Mr. Bitar’s precarious health condition,” Judge Preska said. “The Federal Bureau of Prisons is not able to provide the care that Mr. Bitar needs. Prison almost undoubtedly would kill him. The possibility of prison would make Mr. Bitar ineligible for a heart transplant, which would also impose a death sentence.”

that ticket sale seems to be a good way to turn idle tilt points to some ready cash ;think i will head over to tilt and give it a go