888Poker are currently working on new concept by introducing Home Games with PokerCam, the new addition is nothing new to the industry since the release of PokerStars Home Games and Full Tilt Poker Request Private Tournament at the beginning of 2011. However the 888poker lounges features pokercam tables for home games format making it more intimate and personalized for family and friends to play their own customized private poker tournaments or cash games.
The 888 PokerCam tables were also introduced earlier this year, the feature allows players to play poker face 2 face using webcams to stream audio and the video feed of each players is displayed as their player avatar.
The combination of PokerCam and Home Games will keep 888Poker ahead of most online poker rooms with their latest technology, which should also attract more traffic to the site. 888 poker lounges will be released soon and is currently available in the beta mode, read more to see a sneak peak of the new software.
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Full Tilt Poker released their official Black Friday statement providing more insight on why USA Poker players have not yet been paid. The latest statement explains that prior to Black Friday the government had seized player funds from American banks amounting to $115 million over the last two years. An online payment processor company have also stolen about $42 million causing even more financial difficulties for the company.
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.”
It comes as no big surprise that the remaining poker rooms are all trying to take a massive chunk from Full Tilt Poker’s loyal players by offering huge incentives for these players to join their rooms, seeing that Full Tilt Poker will be out of business for at least a month until they may reopen after a hearing with the AGCC scheduled for July 26th 2011.
Even the most loyal of FullTilt players must be steaming mad with this latest closure which will no doubt put Full Tilt in a rather bad spot even if they were to reopen and pay out all the outstanding balances owed. Most hope that this recent closure is only temporary but regardless gross damage has been done to their reputation and one wonders if they can ever restore their once so famous brand name. UB is pretty much dead since the last round of casualties, perhaps next in line in FullTilt.
Full Tilt Poker alternate poker rooms with some rather special sign up incentives recently released include 888 Poker, PokerStars and Titan Poker. The funny part is most of their emails start off with due to the recent news of Full Tilt Poker closing or something to that effect, none the less FullTilt have to a large extent brought this upon themselves and I guess it’s all fair play in this already competitive environment where each poker room’s goal is to get a higher share of the online poker market even at the expense of the now crippled FullTiltPoker.
We have compiled a list of special poker bonus codes some rooms are now offering to get your action in the wake of Full Tilt’s latest worldwide closure.
Big news today is that Full Tilt Poker have been shut down by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, evidence of the closure can be seen on the Alderney Gambling Control Commission website via a media release today.
