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As with most things regarding Full Tilt Poker these days, most of what we know regarding the true fate of the company’s future is speculation, hearsay and leaked reports. While it has been confirmed that the French investment group, Groupe Bernard Tapie is willing to pay $80 million in order to acquire Full Tilt Poker, [...]

Full Tilt Poker has come under intense criticism from customers and poker pros alike regarding the deafening silences it has maintained since April last year, when the US DOJ shut down the site on Black Friday. Now, we are seeing the first signs of life from the beleaguered online poker site, with the Chief Executive [...]

The leading online poker room, Poker Stars, confirmed that it would be launching its long anticipated Zoom Poker brand for real money by the middle of March. A representative for the online poker room said the switch from the beta version, which has been running for several weeks at Poker Stars, will definitely be this [...]

As with everything related to Full Tilt Poker since the site dramatically shut down in April last year, things are still very much up in the air, despite the fact that an acquisition deal by investors Groupe Bernard Tapie is supposedly in its final stages. There is no much non-action that some poker pros are [...]

The Department of Homeland Security in the United States fired another shot in its war against online poker, by seizing the Bodog.com domain name; this, in spite of the fact that there is no poker operator working under this domain. Bodog.com was used mainly as a forwarding site to the brand’s new Bodog.eu domain, which [...]

Members of Iowa’s Senate State Government Committee voted in favor of allowing the state’s gambling authority to create a structure that could see the establishment of intrastate gambling. By a majority of 11-4, the committee voted that hub operators could partner with licensed casinos in Iowa in order to provide residents of 21 years and [...]

For the first time since charges were brought against Full Tilt Poker last April, the former member of the online poker’s pro team, Phil Ivey, entered a tournament in the United States. It was reported over the weekend that Ivey entered the first day of the 2012 LA Poker Classic Main Event. This is the [...]

PokerStars players were left stranded on Tuesday when the online poker giant’s servers crashed, and the incident is said to have affected around 70,000 players who were active on the site at the time. According to reports, PokerStars’ services shut down following the servers’ malfunction, with many of the players were caught out in the [...]