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Great news for fans of Full Tilt Poker, the former #2 venue in online poker and even better news for those who have had their bankrolls frozen at the site since Full Tilt’s worldwide closure after the AGCC revoked their gaming license.
Full Tilt Poker looks set to make a comeback deal with Groupe Bernard Tapie taking over command of the once so popular poker room, the deal which has the approval of the DOJ will include paying all outstanding players worldwide that have money suspended in their Full Tilt player accounts.
Although exact details of the deal have not been fully disclosed to date, Managing Director of Groupe Bernard Tapie, Laurent Tapie has confirmed that “payment terms are defined” and that he expects an agreement to be drafted and signed within the next two weeks.
The 2011 WSOP main event final will be broadcast on ESPN 2 and ESPN 3 starting this Sunday, 6th November at 3:30 PM EST nearly live from the Rio in Las Vegas.
The ESPN WSOP 2011 broadcast with hole cards being shown will be delayed by 15 minutes to allow fair play in what ESPN considers to be game changing WSOP coverage for this year’s WSOP main event final.
The November nine will battle it out on the final table starting this Sunday at 3:30 pm EST until there are only three players remaining. The remaining three finalists will stand to face each other on Tuesday starting at 9pm.
One thing for sure is that we can expect hours of entertaining live poker from over the next coming days.
Live coverage of the WSOP main event on ESPN and ESPN2
One of the major setbacks from over the last few years for PokerStars at least from my perspective has been that the tournaments are way over crowded and take way too long to finish, when you enter a Tourney at PokerStars the numbers initially seem reasonable but sure enough, come the end of extended registration the number of entries is insane and it takes forever to reach the final, what you thought would have taken two hours to complete can take upwards of 6-7 hours should you end up on the final table. At times these extended periods of play are enjoyable however when we are talking about $3-$5 buyins often it is a waste of time unless you finish in the top 3 paying places.
PokerStars must have realized that this time factor for many of their players is an issue so they have concepted a rather ingenious new tournament format that places its emphasis on Time.
The new advent is aptly named:”PokerStars Time Tourneys”, the new Time Tourneys from Poker Stars offer a fast action paced new format of poker tournaments which have a fixed time to end, once the scheduled time of the tourney has been reached the tournament ends and the prize pool is split among the remaining players according to chip stack size.
The new Time Tourneys will offer buy-ins from as low as $1 and tournament playing times will range from as little as 15 minutes all the way up to 180 minutes and will be running around the clock. Get a free PokerStars Time Tourney ticket, simply read more.
Full Tilt has been closed for nearly two months now, for a while poker players heard positive rumors that a group of European investors were looking to acquire the Full Tilt brand however things with that deal now look to have fallen apart with FullTilt announcing that they have begun negotiations with additional potential investors.
In their statement they said: “Full Tilt Poker will strive to have better communication with its customers going forward”; let’s hope that that part is true as to date their handling of the situation has been abysmal and one wonders if they still carry any value to the online poker world after all they have done or rather haven’t done.
Their rather lame excuse was: “Full Tilt Poker apologizes for its lack of communication with its customers over the last month and a half, but it has been grappling with unexpected and complex legal and financial issues arising from Black Friday and its aftermath. In addition, the company has had to be circumspect about disclosing the progress of negotiations with potential investors because there is often a requirement of strict confidentiality.”
The statement went on to try assure customers that their funds were safe: “Full Tilt Poker’s number one priority remains the same: to secure an infusion of capital to repay all of its worldwide customers.”
Full Tilt Poker has delayed their license review hearing with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) until no later than 15 September 2011.
Everyone was hoping the entire ordeal would be quickly and efficiently dealt with, then Full Tilt Poker could reopen, loose a few players, pay out all their outstanding cashouts including American players and affiliates but this turned out not to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
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