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The Howard Lederer Files is the first interview with Howard Lederer since Black Friday, PokerNews.com gets an exclusive in-depth video interview.

Lederer sat down and answered every question thrown at him, and sheds some light on the way the Full Tilt Poker operated including payment processing, segregated player accounts, and everything from the start of Full Tilt Poker and events leading up to Black Friday.

The Howard Lederer Files will be released as a six or seven part video interviews, the Howard Lederer Interview was recorded at The Palazzo, Las Vegas.

With the Full Tilt Poker Deal completed, and players getting repaid when the New Full Tilt Poker launches on 6 November 2012.

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Tony G and Phil Hellmuth are set to compete against each other but not on the poker table as you would expect, but rather in their own form of made up triathlon.

The triathlon will be made up of three events including Swimming (50m freestyle and 50 meters backstroke), Basketball (10 3 pointers) and Running 1 mile (difference in time accumulated to be added to looser at that stage).

The event is sponsored by WPT – World Poker Tour in the run up to the Malta leg of the tour.

The bets will be finalized with more information to be released nearer the time of the event.
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After years of offering a Bad Beat Jackpot, Carbon Poker have decided to remove it from their tables and instead focus on regular ring games.

Carbon Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot offered some of the highest of its kind in the industry with the largest jackpot exceeding $1 million, but after review they have determined that its best to drop the bad-beat jackpot after the next time it hits.

The current CarbonPoker Bad Beat Jackpot stands at $346,370.00, to win the BBJ a player must be beaten holding at least four of a kind 7’s and a few other rules listed below.

For those who have been trying to take down this jackpot, this will be your last chance as CarbonRyan a Carbon Poker spokesperson wrote at TwoPlusTwo:

“We have made the decision, after some long analytical review of the BBJ Tables, to remove them completely.

Once the Jackpot goes off for the last time, the tables will shut down automatically within a few minutes. We will manually reimburse any BBJ rake paid between the time that the jackpot goes off and when the tables can be shutdown.

The 20% that would normally re-seed the next Jackpot will be spread amongst the players instead, making this ultimate Bad Beat Jackpot even more lucrative for the players involved now.

*It is currently over $313,000.

This change is to ensure a healthier poker room ecology, while providing players with a better ring game selection and increased players at the stakes the BBJ tables use to be.”

Carbon Poker Bonus Code – 600PK

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PokerStars are currently developing an extra game feature that would allow players who mutually agree to “Run it twice”. It may still be some time until we see the new game feature added to the PokerStars client as the feature is expected to be released on the test client sometime this month and then depending on its stability a decision will be reached whether to add it to the PokerStars main client or not.

The Run it Twice concept has been popularized by poker TV shows like Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker in order to run it twice two players need to be all-in prior to the river being dealt with both players agreeing to run the cards twice.

The missing part of the board is then dealt twice from the time when both heads-up players agreed, the pot is divided in half and awarded to the winning player of each board’s outcome.

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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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