The answer to that question may be a resounding yes, as Full Tilt Poker releases a statement just a day after they were issued license revocations from the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. It mentions that they have a financial agreement in place with the Bernard Tapie Group, for the acquisition of the company.In a surprising  Read more »

As the September meetings between Full Tilt Poker and the Alderney Gambling Control Commission have concluded, the AGCC releases information about their decision to end their licensing agreement with the online poker entity.Effective immediately, the governing poker body stated that their decision to part ways with three of the four trading companies of the online  Read more »

Last year, Sorel Mizzi was sent home in second place at the World Poker Tour’s Rendez Vous a Paris High Roller event, after relinquishing a 2-to-1 chip advantage to his then opponent, Freddy Deeb. In 2011, Mizzi would face almost identical circumstances in the Grand Prix de Paris High Roller, only this time ending as  Read more »

This year’s EPT Barcelona was captured by Martin Schleich, a professional poker player from Germany, who won €850,000 and in the process defeated the red hot Eugene Katchalov.Season 8 of the European Poker Tour was going strong with yet another stop at the Gran Casino de Barcelona, and by the time 803 other players were  Read more »

We know the swings of high-stakes online poker can be volatile. However, not even the eccentric Ilari Sahamies could have predicted that the past few weeks would end up this wild.Sahamies, who plays under the screen name “Ilari FIN,” has endured one of the most epic roller coaster rides in recent memory. Side-stepping a few  Read more »

The Epic Poker League’s $20,000 Main Event brought outstanding play and some familiar faces to the forefront of poker when it needed it most. Few names were bigger at the final table than its eventual winner, Chino Rheem.Though the Epic Poker League’s approval rating is still wavering, few things stood more concrete than the first-ever  Read more »

Poker has rarely received as much glaring attention as it has in 2011, and with the unveiling of online poker’s latest cheating scandal involving Jose “Girah” Macedo, Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates and Haseeb “DogIsHead” Qureshi, it’s never been quite so opaque.With some of the most successful and influential names being associated in this reproach, the news  Read more »

The relocation of professional online poker players has recently grown with the conclusion of the World Series of Poker, and one of the most prominent figures in online history is leading the fray.This player is none other than Phil Galfond, known in the online universe as both OMGClayAiken and MrSweets28. Galfond has decided to “take  Read more »

Despite tons of anticipation building from several other popular tournaments at the World Series of Poker, after 57 other events, it was finally time for the Main Event final table to be set.Sifting through 6,865 players and 12 days of excruciating action, it was mostly new faces that emerged to compile the November Nine, and  Read more »

Full Tilt Poker Shut-Downs Once AgainJuly 29th, 2011 – Wednesday morning – Full Tilt Poker shut-downs once again when the Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) suspended their license; now, even though they do not have the scary government seal on their homepage anymore, they still cannot accept any more players, deposits, withdrawals, nor allow any  Read more »