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Full Tilt Nov. 6 Relaunch On Schedule

The new Full Tilt is set to relaunch tomorrow, Nov. 6, and all systems are go for rest-of-world players to be reunited with $184 million in funds. For players in the rest of the world (excluding the United States), we remain on schedule for re-opening the site for real-money play on ...

Details of Full Tilt Poker Player Repayments Revealed

PokerStars have announced details of how former non-US Full Tilt Poker players will be repaid when the online web site is re-launched in November. Following the arrival of the Full Tilt Poker hardware on the Isle of Man yesterday, PokerStars issued a press release announcing how they intend to provide access ...

Speed Hold’em Rolled Out At iPoker Network

As promised last month, the iPoker Network has launched Speed Hold’em, its own version of fast-fold poker that is quite popular among players today. Players at iPoker skins such as William Hill, Titan Poker and Poker770 can now enjoy the fast-fold variant of poker made famous by Full Tilt’s Rush Poker ...

Absolute Poker Co-Founder Gets 14 Months

Brent Beckley has received a 14 month sentence for his role in the illegal gambling charges that were brought in the Black Friday indictments. Brent Beckley became only the second person listed in Black Friday indictments to receive a prison term when U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplin sentenced him to ...

Online Poker – is it For You?

If you’re like many people, you’ve probably heard about online poker.  Maybe you’ve even played a little bit of it, but you’re not really serious about it.  Sure, you’ve had some fun playing small garage games, or in a casino, but you’ve never really thought about playing online. Now, thanks to ...

Genting Poker Series Stopping Off in Edinburgh

The third leg of the Genting Poker Series (GPS) arrives in Scotland today, with the tour stopping off in capital city Edinburgh. The Genting Club will see the first of two opening-day flights into the £430 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em main event start tomorrow at 13:00 BST (British Summer Time), with the ...

WPT Super High Roller Led by Justin Bonomo

Justin Bonomo took control of the World Poker Tour $100,000 Super High Roller event at the Bellagio in practically the last action of the day. Doubling up by cracking Eric Seidel´s pocket Aces when catching a flush on the flop, Bonomo snatched the chip lead from Jean Noel Thorel and ...

Mad Marvin Rettenmaier Leads WPT “May 9”

WPT “May 9” may not have the same catchy ring to it as the WSOP´s November equivalent, but Marvin Rettenmaier will not care about what the climax of the World Poker Tour Season X is called when he wakes up in the morning and takes a look at the WPT ...

Good Evans! Richard Two for Two after UKIPT Comeback

Welsh poker player Richard Evans, from the picturesque village of Portmeirion in North Wales, made it two cashes in two live events after taking down the PokerStars-sponsored UKIPT Dublin Main Event at the weekend. Richard´s only previous attempt at live poker culminated in a minor cash in the UKIPT Nottingham last ...

Phil Laak Beats Sleep and Opponents to Biggest PartyPoker Big Game Profit

American poker star Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Laak was the big winner with an impressive €160,100 profit from the recent PartyPoker Big Game VI 48-hour cash event that took place at Vienna’s Montesino Casino – even if the extremely tired pro actually thought he had earned €2,000 more! The Dublin-born States star ...