Following the comments of Full Tilt attorney Jeff Ifrah that the company intended to be more transparent in its public statements following the expiration of a confidentiality agreement with a potential investor, the company has released a statement to Forbes magazine which sheds some light on why it has not yet made repayments owed to [...]
Twenty-four players remain in contention for the €850,000 first prize after Day 3 at the European Poker Tour Barcelona event. A long day’s play saw the 141 players who began the day reduced to just three tables, with the money bubble bursting along the way. The unlucky bubble boy was Jeff Hakim, who reraised his [...]
407 players reassembled for Day 2 of the EPT Barcelona poker tournament, a number reduced to just 141 by the end of the day. The day began with a host of early eliminations, and a quarter of the field fell by the wayside during the first two blind levels. With just 21 players to fall [...]
Attorney Jeff Ifrah, one of the principal lawyers for Full Tilt Poker, has taken the unusual step of opening an account on the TwoPlusTwo poker forum in order to address some of the concerns that customers of the site are expressing since their account balances were frozen when Full Tilt lost its licence to operate. [...]
811 players have stumped up the €5,300 entry fee to make this year’s EPT Barcelona the biggest live poker event ever to take place in Spain in terms of the number of players. This year’s winner will take home a purse of €850,000, while the total prizepool has come in at just over the €4 [...]
The state of Nevada has pressed ahead with legislation to allow the regulation of online poker should the federal government pass a law permitting it. Should the US Congress legislate to permit online gambling there is likely to be a scramble from various states to find ways to benefit from the tax revenues that will [...]
The Poker Pros Network (PPN) has become the latest site to move to a European internet domain to comply with the crackdown on sites offering online poker to US players. The site also stated that it would be leaving the Cake Network in the near future and establishing its own proprietary software platform, a move [...]
Legalized online poker is set to begin in the United States with the news that the first trial runs of the Washington DC online poker system are set to begin in September. Initially poker will only be offered at around 20-30 locations within the city, all of them hotels or bars, but it is intended [...]
Daniel Negreanu returned to online poker yesterday after more than four months away from the tables. The Canadian hadn’t played since the Department of Justice seized the domains of the big poker rooms serving the USA on “Black Friday” back in April. Negreanu is currently staying with his brother in Toronto while seeking to get [...]
Poker players in California were dealt another blow yesterday with the news that legislation to legalize online play is not now expected before 2012. Legislators in the state had been considering two separate bills that would have legalized the activity but have come up against various complexities. California’s Native American tribes have existing exclusive rights [...]
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