Leslie Radue

Most online poker players are already aware that Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT), the French investment group is currently working on taking over Full Tilt Poker and in the process making sure that all players’ bankrolls worldwide are repaid. GBT has been in discussions with the US DOJ and have reached a signed agreement with them which includes the purchase of the Full Tilt Poker for $80 million provided that certain conditions are fulfilled.

GBT has subsequently been investigating the financial inner workings of Full Tilt and have uncovered that several former pros owe large sums of money to the company totaling $16.5 Million. Considering the purchase price of $80 Million, the $16.5 Million in outstanding professional player debts to Full Tilt Poker is significant and could potentially put the deal in serious jeopardy.

To date GBT has been quiet about the deal for the most part, preferring to hold closed meetings keeping issues encountered private, however in this case Groupe Bernard Tapie have made the issue public regarding several pro’s outstanding debts in order to apply pressure to those owing money to the company and possibly to educate the public that those implicated are not all as guilt free as they claim to be regarding players getting their money back from FullTilt.

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PokerStars have a reload bonus up for offer where redepositing players can get a free TCOOP Ticket valued at $22 completely free when making a deposit to the value of $60 or higher. The first 2012 PokerStars reload bonus is valid from now until the 18th January 2012 23:59 ET when using reload bonus code: TCOOP

Your free PokerStars reload voucher can be used for TCOOP events and satellites, and will automatically expire on the 29th January at 18:30 ET if not used.
The ticket is non-transferable and non-exchangeable. Players are eligible for one ticket only.

PokerStars Reload Bonus Code 2012: TCOOP

PokerStars Bonus Code 2012: STARS600

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Updated 2014: added PokerStars Bulgaria

In the ever changing world of online poker with the challenges it presents in terms of licenses and each country’s unique laws and legislation regarding online poker, Pokerstars the current world leader in poker traffic have needed to adapt their approach to retain their coveted crown of busiest poker room online.

We suspect 2012 will continue to bring out new laws and legal requirements for poker rooms to adhere to.PokerStars have done remarkably well despite being closed to the USA which was for many years was their main source of revenue.

In order to accommodate the changes and comply with local legislation, PokerStars have obtained licenses in those regions permitting them to do so and have opened several foreign domains to cater for the demand. In doing so, PokerStars now offer several new bonus codes which are region specific.

On the downside it can be a bit tricky for players not knowing where they can or are meant to play at this article will cover the basic information about PokerStars worldwide and the bonus codes they offer per region and respective domain suffix.

The up side of covering so many regions is that PokerStars now supports many languages by default and by doing so is making online poker truly global.

PokerStars bonus code 2014: STARS600

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Bovada.lv the new home to the USA version of Bodog launched as Bovada is offering an 8 week where players stand a chance to win weekly prizes which include free bets, cash bonuses and freeroll entries as well as tickets to the grand prize draw to an exclusive Bovada Party celebration.
The Bovada Party Prize Package consists of two roundtrip airline tickets for the winner plus a guest to the party location along with hotel accommodation for three nights and is exclusively open to USA residents only.
Bovada offers Casino, Poker, Horse racing and Sports betting to USA residents from Bovada.lv, Bovada is a new brand created especially for the American market that no longer have access to Bodog (Bodog + Nevada = Bovada).

Bovada Bonus Codes

No Bovada Poker Bonus code needed, signup bonuses are automatic, all players get a 100% first deposit bonus up to $1,000 on sign up at Bovada when using the links below.

Bovada Poker – 100% deposit bonus up to $1,000 – Open to USA – no Bovada bonus code needed.
Bovada Casino – 100% bonus up to $500 – Allows USA –  no Bovada sign up bonus code needed.
Bovada Sports – 20% Free Bet Bonus up to $100 – no Bovada deposit bonus code needed.

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Last night I watched the 2011 WSOP final table being streamed live online, well the first part of the final as I’m sure many others did. I hooked up a laptop to my 42 inch LED TV set up the cables and was all good to go, well at least that’s what I thought would be the case.

What unfolded was a bit of mixed feelings in regard to how the WSOP 2011 live stream was run and in general how much better coverage for the greatest poker event of the year could have been handled.

My first issue was I searched all my satellite channels which is really saying something as I have a Dreambox and access to most European TV channels via satellite which includes ESPN and ESPN America but sadly the WSOP was being shown on ESPN2 which I could not access.

My only means to watch the “WSOP 2011 live” was via a live streaming broadcast of the WSOP which was easy enough to find as we had previously posted about the 2011 WSOP Final Live on ESPN.

So after setting up my laptop TV combo I loaded the WSOP live stream only to find out that too many others had done the same thing causing the live feed to crash I then checked out the WSOP twitter feed which read “Sorry folks, we’re experiencing a minor issue with the feed. It should be up and running in 15 min. Players now on the 1st break of the day.”
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