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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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The 2012 World Series of Poker will see some new changes including new events, an increase of tables and a change in date of the final table due to the U.S. Presidential Election.

One of the new events is the WSOP Big One which features a million dollar buy-in, and is a charity event benefiting One Drop, there will be no tournament fee for the event and 11,1% of each buy-in will be donated. The event is limited to 48 players and with 22 players registered so far, the event will have the biggest prize pool in the history of poker.

This year the Rio Casino will add an additional 92 tables making a total of 470 tables which will also reduce the amount of starting days of the 2012 WSOP Main Event from 7-9 July 2012.

The November Nine will not be happening in 2012 due to the Presidential Election taking place in the first week of November, the WSOP final table will return to the Penn & Teller Theater on 28-30 October.

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PokerStars Zoom Poker is expected for release as a beta version in March 2012, the new action packed game is PokerStars version of the popular Rush Poker on Full Tilt Poker.

A PokerStars player requested a version Rush Poker for PokerStars and a PokerStars Rep responded “PokerStars is developing a fast moving ring games product. We expect it to be available for public beta testing in a few months.”

Not much more information is available about PokerStars Zoom Poker, except that the image on the left now appears in a folder named Blitz (PokerStars/gx/blitz) after a recent PokerStars update.

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PokerStars Mobile has been launch in Italy which includes a Pokerstars TV app, PokerStars Clock app and mobile poker application which allows play money and real money poker games. Italian Poker players were the first to start playing on PokerStars Mobile application when the play money version was released in November 2011.

PokerStars have since released a real money version of the PokerStars Mobile App and plan to make it available to players from France, UK, Denmark and Spain in 2012.

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It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.

Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.

Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)

Read more for the top poker articles and major event winners of Poker 2011.

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