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Full Tilt Poker bosses 'are telling truth'
Poker News February 22, 2012 Full Tilt Poker collapsed without its main shareholders even knowing the company was in trouble, poker legend Doyle Brunson has claimed.
The 78-year-old said he has spoken in detail to Howard Lederer - one of four Full Tilt directors being investigated by the US Department of Justice.
And Texas Dolly claims Lederer and Chris Ferguson may genuinely have known nothing at all about the site's...
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Online poker will be illegal in US 'until 2013'
Poker News February 20, 2012 Online poker will remain illegal in the United States until 2013 at the earliest, a leading analyst has claimed.
Macquarie Securities gaming expert Chad Beynon told investors that US poker players will have to wait 'at least' another 12 months for the industry to reborn.
It came after politicians in Washington shunned the chance to include an online gaming bill in tax legislation last...
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Tapie: Full Tilt Poker deal will go ahead
Poker News February 2, 2012 Full Tilt will still be taken over by Group Bernard Tapie (BGT), the French investment company has insisted.
Laurent Tapie, the managing director of the company, has denied reports that poker star Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson - who is a large Full Tilt shareholder - was threatening to block the deal.
He said: "This is totally false.
"Chris Ferguson has no problem with regard to the completion of...
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Tom Dwan plans shock Aussie Millions comeback
Poker News January 20, 2012 Tom Dwan has been missing in action for months.
The former Full Tilt Pro has gone radio silent, with no official word of his whereabouts since September when he mysteriously Tweeted 'Leaving LA now...maybe back here soon.'
But now, it emerges, durrrr is actually in south eastern Australia where the country's biggest poker tournament - the $10,600 Aussie Millions Main Event - gets underway in...
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PokerStars in chaos as CEO Gabi Campos quits
Poker News January 18, 2012 POKERSTARS was left in limbo today as the site's Chief Executive unexpectedly quit.
Gabi Campos, a former 888 executive who only joined the online giant in October 2010, will leave his job in just two weeks.
The world's biggest poker room - which has also lost European Poker Tour Chief Executive John Duthie and Tournament Director Thomas Kremser in the last eight months - must now start a...
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Full Tilt scandal: UK players told to call police
Poker News January 5, 2012 FULL TILT Poker players in Britain should call the police to report the firm if they feel they have been a victim of crime, regulators said yesterday.
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) - which revoked Full Tilt's license last year - issued a statement advising UK players to contact their local authorities if they have lost money.
The update, the first from the regulator for...
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Most Full Tilt players will 'get nothing'
Poker News October 11, 2011 THE vast majority of Full Tilt Poker players owed cash will get nothing when the company is rescued, it was claimed today.
A French investment company is on the verge of an ambitious takeover of the site, which has been shut to both American and European players for months.
But although Groupe Bernard Tapie is considering handing some players equity in the new-look group, that offer may only...
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Full Tilt Poker denies Ponzi allegations
Poker News September 22, 2011 FULL TILT has rejected claims by a US prosecutor it was a 'global Ponzi scheme' that used phantom money to pay players.
A lawyer for the collapsed poker giant last night admitted the company had made financial errors - but denied the shocking claim.
Jeff Ifrah, a Washington attourney representing the firm, said: "I disagree strongly with the allegation that FTP operated as a global Ponzi...
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Fill Tilt let players gamble 'phantom' money
Poker News September 21, 2011 Full Tilt Poker was crediting some player's accounts with money that didn't exist at the time it was shut down, prosecutors claimed yesterday.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a new filing yesterday that Full Tilt payment processing was so poor that poker players routinely gambled, and lost, cash that wasn't 'real'.
It read: "Full Tilt Poker allowed players to gamble with - and...
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AGCC statement on Full Tilt Poker
Poker News August 8, 2011 On 15th April 2011, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Assistant-Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI announced the unsealing of an indictment against 11 individuals, including some connected to Full Tilt Poker (“FTP”), alleging bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offences.
The AGCC, which licenses FTP, began...
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