Posts Tagged ‘Poker News’
So by now we all know the background story on the Full Tilt Affair right? Full Tilt Poker was one of the three online poker sites shut down on Black Friday aka April 15, 2011. The casino and its trustees were accused of fraud, embezzlement and breaking the Wire Act and were investigated Read the rest of this entry »
Well any of you that know online poker know social network site Facebook offers a no money poker game. But did you know that the networking giant is thinking of offering cash money poker games? It seems the folks over at Facebook are retracting a very strict advertising policy to Read the rest of this entry »
For those cyber savvy geeks out there the term “bitcoin” is very well known. This virtual currency has been around for a couple of years now and is used by computer and tech companies and their customers to conduct online transactions. There are no backings, banks or bankers Read the rest of this entry »
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. It has been several weeks since we first heard of Bernard Taipe’s interest in the fallen poker giant. They Read the rest of this entry »
I read today on pokernews.com that two members of team poker stars (one current and one former) were arrested over the summer on a charge of cheating. The game was craps and apparently the couple managed to pull off their stunt for several weeks before casino owners at Wynn Las Vegas Read the rest of this entry »
So I just got through reading a story by pokernewsdaily.com describing a possible and very likely deal that has a French company buying the remnants of the Full Tilt Business. The French investors rumor has been circulating for a few weeks but the day after Full Tilt lost their Read the rest of this entry »
I read online that state gaming commissions may be cracking down on illegal gambling play but they are leaving the home games alone. There has been a surge in live play since the fall of the big three online casinos. Can we expect the trend to grow as the world of online poker and Read the rest of this entry »
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 Read the rest of this entry »
The breaking (yet wholly expected) news in the poker world is that Full Tilt has lost its e-gaming license. After a six day closed to the public hearing before the Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) in London, the extent of Full Tilt’s deception to players and the Commission Read the rest of this entry »
Nevada was hit hard by the economic crisis that began a few years ago. Some casinos were knocked down or abandoned; others never got built. Lots of people found themselves unemployed in a region where gambling money was the staple economy. Since Black Friday there has been talk about Read the rest of this entry »