Friday, 10 August 2012
PokerStars has made its first payment of $225m to the United States Department of Justice and completed its takeover of Full Tilt Poker.
The deal agreed with the DoJ last week required PokerStars to pay the first chunk of a total of $731m within six days. Now that has been done the way is clear for PokerStars to relaunch Full Tilt and start the process of paying back FTP's overseas players.PokerStars representative Lee Jones revealed the news in a post on Two Plus Two,“We're delighted to announce that we have officially closed our deal with the U.S. DoJ as of today, August 9th”. Jones also confirmed that Full Tilt Poker will be live no later than 6th November.Around $184m is outstanding to non-US Full Tilt players which will be paid by PokerStars. Precise details of the restitution procedure for US players is yet to be finalised. US DoJ will have responsibility for processing the $150m due to US players.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off a second three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
$200 GTD ‘East of Eden’ Poker Tournament Monday night at Intertops Poker will be a freezeout tournament with no re-buys or add-ons.
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