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“Medical Condition” Upends Bitar’s Black Friday Case
At a hearing in federal court on Friday, lawyers for former Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar revealed that Bitar has a “medical condition” that is materially impacting his Black Friday criminal case....
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Op-Ed: Fight Bad Actor Clauses Now – Not Later
There’s been lots of focus this week on bad actor provisions in state online gambling bills. As various states dip a toe into the water of potential legislation, many are including clauses that would...
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Rational to New Jersey: Ignore AGA
Rational Group, the parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, filed a letter brief with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement today. The letter, first reported by the Bergen Record’s...
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Australia Abandons Regulation of Online Poker
Some regulatory developments out of Australia this morning have left the Australian poker community as frustrated as ever. The government Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy,...
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DOJ Names Full Tilt Claims Administrator
The reimbursement to U.S. players of the balances of their Full Tilt Poker accounts inched down the road ever so slightly today with an announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice that a claims...
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Full Tilt Drops to 4th in Traffic Rankings
For the first time since it was re-launched in November 2012, Full Tilt Poker has fallen out of the No. 2 spot in the weekly online poker traffic listings provided by PokerScout.com. The resurrected...
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Bitar to Avoid Jail but Needs Heart Transplant
At a hearing in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for former Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar announced that Bitar has reached an “unusual” plea agreement with the U.S. government in his Black Friday...
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PokerStars Pushes Mobile App in U.S.
PokerStars is making a renewed marketing push for its play-money mobile app in the United States. Earlier this week, many U.S. account holders received an email from Events at PokerStars touting the...
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Former Full Tilt CEO Bitar Pleads Guilty, Avoids Jail
Former Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar, facing nine felony charges and suffering from Class IV heart failure, pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement...
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Full Tilt Poker Introduces Special “New to the Game” Tables for Novice Players
While the final chapters of Full Tilt Poker version 1.0 continue to be written with stories of former CEO Ray Bitar’s health issues and plea arrangement and his fellow Black Friday defendant Chad Elie...
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Online Poker Traffic Down 16% Since Start of 2013
A post titled “Hardly anyone playing on Full Tilt” on TwoPlusTwo.com piqued my curiosity this morning. I wondered how online poker, as a whole, is faring as we enter the 44th annual World Series of...
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Garden City Group Updates Status of FTP Claims Process
A new notice appeared late last week from the Garden City Group, the claims administrator authorized by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to oversee the process for reimbursement...
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Full Tilt Poker Remission Process: Mid-November Application Deadline for Refunds
Late on Friday afternoon, the DOJ-appointed claims administrator for Full Tilt Poker, Garden City Group (GCG), announced more specifics for the upcoming remission process for the site’s former American...
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