June 29, 2018
Four new millionaires are celebrating football-fuelled victories at PokerStars, PokerStars Casino, and Full Tilt this week having each secured million-dollar pay outs totalling more than $5.4 million, the company announced in a press release Friday. “With four millionaires created since the World Cup started, we clearly have the answer to half-time entertainment,” said Christopher Coyne, […]
July 2, 2016
Amaya Inc., parent group of Pokerstars and Full Tilt, has announced that both operations will be withdrawing from the Slovenian market on July 4. In similar fashion to the exit from Israel a few days ago (see previous report) the notification to players assures them that their accounts and positive balances remain secure and can […]
May 9, 2016
Amaya Inc. will retire the Full Tilt platform on Tuesday, 17 May 2016, migrating players to its PokerStars platform to increase liquidity and achieve cost saving measures with the operation of a combined platform. Players who have both Full Tilt and PokerStars accounts will see their accounts merged with Full Tilt Points converted to Starscoin […]
May 7, 2016
The Amaya Group’s decision to merge Full Tilt with Pokerstars is apparently well enough advanced for the merger to take place on May 17 this year, with preparations for the big move well in hand. The company has announced that the Full Tilt poker platform will not be offered for sale, and will instead be […]
February 17, 2016
A press release from Amaya Inc late Tuesday advised the world that it plans to merge subsidiaries Full Tilt and Pokerstars into “one market-leading poker product.” “This platform migration will allow Amaya’s development and technology teams to focus on improving one market-leading platform rather than two, leading to a better gaming experience for all; improvements […]
November 17, 2015
Amaya Inc. online gaming brands PokerStars and Full Tilt will extend their partnership with Right To Play, an initiative that uses the educational power of sports, games and play to provide disadvantaged children and young people in over 20 countries worldwide with learning, health and social skills. Through Amaya’s corporate giving program, Helping Hands, the […]
November 14, 2015
Amaya Inc. brand Full Tilt will be the first major online poker brand to launch on Steam, Valve Corporation’s digital gaming platform, following a month in their Greenlight process. Full Tilt secured thousands of votes from the Steam community who had their say on whether the game be made available on the popular platform, a […]
October 11, 2015
The growing fame of online gaming distribution channel Steam has clearly caught the eye of Amaya’s Full Tilt online gambling subsidiary, which has applied through Steam’s crowd-approval Greenlight facility for exposure of the free-play Full Tilt.net software. Owned by a company titled Valve, Steam is an increasingly popular online distribution service where growing numbers of […]
October 4, 2015
Another tranche of Full Tilt reimbursements could be on the way within weeks, according to Poker Players Alliance executive director John Pappas, who posted Friday that his contacts at the Department of Justice had given him a heads up on the latest pay-out developments. “This next wave includes roughly 2,000 petitioners totalling $5.7 million in […]
October 1, 2015
The news late Wednesday that Amaya Inc. has at last been given the green light to operate in the New Jersey online gambling market by the Division of Gaming Enforcement has observers speculating on how soon the company’s Pokerstars and Full Tilt brands, partnered by local Atlantic City land operator Resorts Casino Hotel, will be […]