Leslie Radue

The long awaited question of when will Full Tilt Poker open has finally been answered, add 6th November 2012 to your calendar as the date that Full Tilt Poker will officially reopen and be ready for action once again as an online poker room.

Full Tilt Poker will this time however be under totally different management and all player balances will be restored except for US and regulated European regions.

The newly formed Full Tilt poker management team will be independent of PokerStars and based out of Dublin, Ireland meaning they will not follow the mould of Pokerstars in terms of promotions, marketing, and tournaments but will instead be left to create their own brand to compete with Poker Stars.

USA players will look to the DOJ to repay their outstanding balances and will no longer be permitted to play at the re-launched FullTilt site.

Players from France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Estonia and Denmark the European regulated regions will be assisted by their regulators with plans in place for those regions to allow transfers of Full Tilt Poker balances to a PokerStars account in the region.

Luckily for all players who were owed money by FullTiltPoker, PokerStars reached an agreement with the US DOJ that grants all Full Tilt Poker assets to PokerStars. Part of the agreement reached includes the payment of all Full Tilt Poker players worldwide within 90 days.

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These days one feels pity towards American poker players as finding a decent poker room is becoming more and more of a daunting task, long gone are the days when Americans could safely play at PokerStars or FullTilt Poker both of which are now closed to the USA and sadly FullTilt to the world, at least for the time being.

The choices are very limited for Americans at the moment until legislation eventually gets approved if and when it ever does.

The DOJ is hot on the heels of many of these poker rooms still open to the USA and while many poker-rooms have succeed so far in getting around to paying their players it certainly is risky business.

USA Poker Players can still play at:

Merge – Carbon Poker or Aced Poker

Revolution Gaming – Lock Poker or Cake Poker

Bodog – Under the Bovada Poker label also has a Casino and Sports Betting.

Winning Poker Network – Americas Cardroom

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PartyPoker have an interesting line up of upcoming live events for the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Malta and Paris that can all be entered into for free with the added bonus of the PartyPoker Summer Million and Summer Superstars events which also have free entry for those wishing to slog it out the long hard way.

PartyPoker WPT Malta Package

Win a $6,500 prize package for the WPT Malta runs 16th–20th September 2012 Freerolls daily: WPT Malta Freeroll

PartyPoker WPT Paris Package

Win a $13,000 package to 16th July – 19th August, 2012 Freerolls daily: WPT Grand Prix de Paris Freeroll

Party-Poker Bonus Code
WAPBIG – 100% Party Poker Bonus Code up to $500
EUROPOKER – 100% Party-Poker-Bonus Code to €325
WAPGB – 100% Party-Poker Bonus Code up to £250

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Zynga Poker believe it or not have more play money players online than even Pokerstars according to a new traffic report for play money rooms published by pokerscout, something that PokerStars the #1 online poker room needs to keep an eye on.

Zynga Poker despite being a play money only site have a large loyal fan base and dominate Facebook and Google + with poker apps for iPhones, iPads and Android based phones and tablets.

PokerStars may face some tough competition from Zynga Poker in years to come should Zynga opt to monetize their poker rooms and offer real money games.

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After a successful PokerStars Micro Millions series held in March, PokerStars Micro Millions II is set to begin from July 12 until 22 July 2012.

The MicroMillions series run by PokerStars offer low stake buy-ins from $0.11 up to $22 but offer large guaranteed prize pools. Micro Millions II will offer 100 guaranteed micro stakes poker tournaments for the full PokerStars Micro Millions II schedule.

To top off the series PokerStars have added additional incentive to redeposit and reload your pokerstars account by offering a free Micro Millions ticket to players who deposit $20 or more.

PokerStars Micro Millions II Bonus Code ‘MICRO’

2012 PokerStars bonus code – STARS600

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