As was promised by Full Tilt Poker attorney Jeff Ifrah during his weekend correspondence on 2+2, the first detailed statement was issued by the beleaguered poker site on Wednesday, and for the first time we received the Full Tilt side of the story as to why they have yet to repay their customers. While the statement is far more detailed than anything put out in the past, it is chock-full Read More ...
Longtime poker pro Amir Vahedi, best known for his final table appearance in the 2003 World Series of Poker, where he finished in 6th place after coming to the final table as one of the odds-on favorites, passed away on January 8th from complications with diabetes. Vahedi, one of the most likeable players in the poker world was one of the frontrunners to today’s loose/aggressive style of play in the Read More ...
The Cake Poker Network has found yet another partner to add to its ever changing poker network of over 75 online poker rooms, this time with a site that has interesting on helping the endangered Red Panda species, and aptly named Red Panda Poker. We’ve seen Rake-Free poker rooms, Hollywood-themed rooms, and countless other “innovative?” ideas to draw traffic to their sites, but this is by far the first time Read More ...
A very unpleasant E-Mail arrived in my inbox today from Full Tilt Poker. I was informed that my recent –if you consider October 22nd recent—check withdrawal was cancelled due to an issue with their third-party payment processor: Unfortunately due to an issue with one of our 3rd party processors, the transaction(s) has not been processed. Your withdrawal amount will be returned to your Full Tilt Poker account within the next Read More ...
After months of silence Full Tilt Poker finally came out from under the rock they were hiding last week and issued a statement on the ongoing talks with potential investors the site is currently engaged in. While the statement was short, and lacking any specifics, this first step has led to even more communications between the ailing online poker site and the poker community, as Full Tilt Poker’s attorney Jeff Read More ...
It’s $10 Haircut time over at Titan Poker, as the site announced it would be running a huge promotion: Slashing its cash-game rake by 50% at most tables, while at the same time changing high-stakes cash-game rake collection to a fixed amount of just $.10 per hand. According to the press release: As part of its poker Rake Break promotion, Titan Poker has decreased the maximum rake cap by 50% Read More ...
Sometimes you forget that the principles involved in this case were 22, 21, and 20 respectively, but if something along the lines of Haseeb Qureshi’s latest 2+2 post/confession –along with the subsequent reply by jungleman—were posted last Sunday this story would have had a much happier ending, and spent far less time being picked apart by the poker community. Here is Qureshi’s latest post, as well as the reply a Read More ...
As was promised by Full Tilt Poker attorney Jeff Ifrah during his weekend correspondence on 2+2, the first detailed statement was issued by the beleaguered poker site on Wednesday, and for the first time we received the Full Tilt side of the story as to why they have yet to repay their customers. While the statement is far more detailed than anything put out in the past, it is chock-full Read More ...
As I sit down to write this article it’s now over four months since Black Friday first ripped away my ability to play online poker, and in all honesty, except for a few thousand serious online poker players nothing has really changed for the 99.99% of the US population who see the inability to play online poker somewhere between a good thing and a minor nuisance. This is why online Read More ...
Black Friday is turning out to be just another example of the US government killing jobs! With their Us operations shutdown since April 15th, followed by the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) suspending their gaming license for their failure to repay their US players, Full Tilt Poker did what many have expected they would be forced to do all along this week, and paid-off their entire US workforce. The move Read More ...
