A bit of good news for Full Tilt Poker fans, if there are any left, the Ivey vs. Tiltware lawsuit was dismissed on 30 June 2011; the case was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice by Phil Ivey. It is rumored that a group of European investors are interested in purchasing a majority stake in Full Tilt Poker which would be one step closer to seeing all USA FullTilt poker accounts paid out.
PokerStars have benefited the most from Full Tilt Poker’s closure, they have seen a surge in their player numbers since Full Tilt Poker closed; they have reportedly claimed 66% of FullTiltPoker’s players.
The big question everyone is now asking is: When will Full Tilt Poker open again?
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.
Online Poker Rooms have had significant changes in traffic since Black Friday, the top rooms who have recently blocked US poker players have dropped in traffic while those poker sites who still accept US players have increased.
While most American Poker players seem to have signed up to Carbon Poker on the Merge Gaming Network, which has had a major increase in traffic and are now ranking in the top 10.
While UB Poker have suffered a huge loss in traffic losing more than 3/4 of their players since Black Friday and other instabilities in the company which include dismissing 95% of their Costa Rica staff and all the Team UB Poker pros.
We have compiled a summary of which online poker rooms offer instant play poker versions of their software; it covers most of the poker games we offer on our site.
Instant Play Poker provides users with an alternate version of the poker room client that requires no download and permits them to play directly from a browser.
The main advantage of poker instant play software is that it supports far more operating systems than the standard poker client usually allows. Instant Play poker is playable from Mac’s, Linux and all versions of Windows OS directly from the player’s favorite browser.
There are some disadvantages of playing instant play poker in that usually the game lacks certain features found in the full downloadable client versions of the software.
Due to the recent surge in popularity of poker mobile apps, we have included mobile poker apps to the list too, we believe in time the mobile poker app market will become a major player in the poker industry especially seeing that latest smart phones with Android OS / IPhone OS can run flash based poker games.
Several poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker have already identified this ever increasing mobile poker trend and are getting in early on the poker mobile action with the launch of their Rush Full Tilt Poker mobile app, but others like PokerStars are sadly left behind. Come on PokerStars get your act together, where is your PokerStars Mobile game or even a PokerStars instant play version?
Portability and accessibility are the major driving forces behind the demand but on the other hand playability seems somewhat dampered at this early stage. Read More …
A bit of good news for Full Tilt Poker fans, if there are any left, the Ivey vs. Tiltware lawsuit was dismissed on 30 June 2011; the case was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice by Phil Ivey. It is rumored that a group of European investors are interested in purchasing a majority stake in Full Tilt Poker which would be one step closer to seeing all USA FullTilt poker accounts paid out.
