August 21, 2014
The monumental task of disbursing payments to owed Full Tilt players in the United States appears to be drawing to a close, with third party administrator Garden City posting a notice Wednesday advising that the final deadline for petitions will be September 3. The notice on Full Tilt Poker Claims.com advises: “Please note that the […]
August 19, 2014
Danish high stakes player Gus Hansen’s patience and resilience through difficult weeks were rewarded last week when he finally enjoyed a good run on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables to emerge top weekly winner with a profit of $600,000. Although impressive, the amount still pales beside Hansen’s overall losses over the past few years, said […]
August 9, 2014
The online high stakes poker tables at Full Tilt were good to French ace Alex “Alexonmoon” Luneau in the first week of August, enabling him to emerge from a series of skirmishes with top nosebleed pros as the biggest earner with over a million dollars in profits. Reporting on the period August 1 to 8, […]
August 6, 2014
According to The Garden City Group (GCG), claims administrator of the forfeited funds in the United States v. PokerStars, et al. 11 Civ. 2564 case, players designated by Full Tilt Poker as professionals, excluding Team Full Tilt Players, are next in line to recover a portion of their account balance. GCG said professional players may […]
July 17, 2014
The Rational Group, owners of the widely known Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker online poker brands, have commenced re-branding the latter, dropping the ‘poker’ element to emphasise the more general online gambling nature of the brand going forward. Full Tilt.eu and derivations in various national regulatory jurisdictions such as Spain, Sweden and Italy, reflects the […]
June 25, 2014
Full Tilt Poker has introduced Jackpot Sit & Go Tournaments, giving those with a big poker appetite but limited time to play the chance to quickly hit a jackpot. The concept pits players against just two opponents with a variable prize pool of up to $20,000 at the $10 buy-in level. As soon as players […]
June 11, 2014
Some of the brightest young minds from Oxford and Cambridge universities went head to head for some intense competition at the Oxford vs. Cambridge Varsity Poker Match 2014 and the 12th annual Oxford Cup, both sponsored by Full Tilt Poker. To kick-start the weekend’s festivities, which took place on June 7th and 8th, Cambridge triumphed […]
June 11, 2014
Full Tilt Poker (FTP) claims administrator Garden City Group (GCG) will make another round of payments to approved petitioners on Thursday, June 12, 2014. The distribution approved by the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section will include approximately 3 500 payments totaling $15 million and includes affiliates who submitted petitions confirming their […]
May 17, 2014
Some of last week’s big losers on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables (see previous reports) turned things around this week and added some six-figure profits to their accounts. The High Stakes Data Base reports that the action involved many big names in the game and spread across a variety of poker genres that included […]
April 11, 2014
It’s been a good week at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables for Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, who managed to overcome an expensive downswing in the preceding week (see previous report) into just over a million in profit by late Thursday, leaving him in the red for the year to date by just $70,000. Taking […]