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Full Tilt lost its gaming license permanently? Was Full Tilt a ponzi scheme?

There’s a rumor in the wild that Full Tilt Poker has lost its gaming license permanently. Aparently Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has revoked FTP’s gaming license for good as they also suspect that Full Tilt was a huge ponzi scheme.

According to the source (iGaming Post), they got the news from a reliable person who is working close to AGCC and Full Tilt Poker’s case.

There hasn’t been any confirmation of the rumor yet.

According to the source, AGCC is still negotiating with Full Tilt about the license payments and such.

Looks like Full Tilt hasn’t found any investors to buy their business and if FTP’s gaming license is revoked, they will need to file a bankrupt plan.

At the same time SubjectPoker.com is telling that FTP is negotiating with some French investors and FTP tries to get their EU license up and the site running.

All the possible investors might back up though, as FTP is under suspection that the company was ran like a ponzi scheme and site owners like Howard Lederer and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson would have raised tens of millions of dollars straight from the “player accounts”.

Source: iGaming Post

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The Hendon Mob cuts their ties with Full Tilt Poker - FTPs hearing happening today

According to Poker-King.com, the very popular The Hendon Mob (www.thehendonmob.com) has cut all their ties with Full Tilt Poker today.

The Hendon Mob announced their cut just a few hours before the actual hearing of Full Tilt Poker.

They have now removed all the adds from the site already.

Full Tilt Poker’s “public” hearing is happening today in London - behind closed doors, no media nor public are allowed to enter. We hope to get news fast after the event.

Source: Pokerista.net

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The Hendon Mob cuts their ties with Full Tilt Poker - FTPs hearing happening today

Patrik Antonius’ former assistant is a scammer

Nick Rainey is a known poker player, he placed 106th in the 2010 WSOP Main Event and has been an assistant to pros like Patrik Antonius and Andrew Robl.

Rainey sold some shares to this year’s WSOP Main Event through 2+2 and wrote to Twitter that he dropped out early. When people checked his position, he wasn’t even found in the player list.

After he got caught he promised to pay all the shares back, but now he has moved out of the country without even contacting any of the share buyers. Also his blog and Twitter accounts have been deleted. When people have dug a bit deeper, there has been some other scams. Rainey has scammed some funds which were supposed to go into charity and more misbehaving are grounding in daily basis.

You can follow the happening on 2+2 forums.

Source: Pokerista.net

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Full Tilt’s hearing will be held behind closed doors

AGCC has just released a press statement where they say that the Full Tilt Poker’s “public” hearing on September 19th will be held behind closed doors. Previously they stated that it is an open hearing.

AGCC’s decision has raised lots of resent as most players would like to see where Full Tilt is heading to.

You can read the whole statement here.

Also Full Tilt Poker released a press statement earlier, which you can read here.

Full Tilt’s own statement is basically just telling the same old story: they believe that the company has huge market outside of USA and they still insist that all their players will get their money back.

They also promise to continue to negotiate with the possible investors that they can get their games back online.

Source: Pokerista.net

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Full Tilt’s hearing will be held behind closed doors

“Ziigmund” Sahamies running hot: $1,2 million profits this month

Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies is currently leading the internet winning statistics this month. He has already won about 1,2 million dollars durng the first weeks of September.

Ilari “Ziigmund/Ilari FIN” Sahamies sitting at the Grand Casino Helsinki

According to Ilari himself, the online games have been really good and wild. There was also the biggest PokerStars pot ever won, which Ilari won.

The biggest loser so far has been Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom (-$635K) and the second biggest loser is Andreas “Skjervoy” Torbergsen (-$463K).

And of course the games are still runing wild. Sahamies is down about $200,000 and the biggest winner has been another Finn: Sami “LrsLzk” Kelopuro with about a $150K profit.

Source: Pokerista.net, HSDB

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“Ziigmund” Sahamies running hot: $1,2 million profits this month

Another scammer amongst the PokerStrategy coaches?

In August, there was a suspicion that there were few scammers playing together on 888poker. PokerStrategy coach Darren Woods is believed to be part of this scam ring which lead to huge wins. The scam ring won hundreds of thousands of dollars in the end.

Now the whole case have been brought to daylight on 2+2 forums and many poker pro has signed it.

Woods, who’s player name on 888poker is “Dooshcom” is believed to have played with multiple accounts with his friends at the $500/$1,000 shallow tables (5bb).

The suspected games were played during August this year and the CEO of 888poker, Gareth Edward has now announced that they’re investigating the accounts used in the scam.

According to TheHendonMob, Darren Woods has won almost half a million dollars from live tournaments.

Woods is now the second PokerStrategy coach who has been involved in scam accusations. Joe “Girah” Macedo was caught cheating on Merge Network and was soon sacked from the PokerStrategy team.

Source: Pokerista.net

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Poker-King speculation: Full Tilt will ask even more time

Full Tilt Poker’s hearing is scheduled on 19th this month. At least Poker-King.com doesn’t believe that there’s much happening in that event - They even think that Full Tilt will try to buy more time to get their business sorted.

Poker-King writes that there’s now only a week to the public hearing and still nothing points to a direction where Full Tilt would have a new deal inked out.

“My guess is that Full Tilt’s lawyers will say that the company is still engaged in negotiations and needs more time to close a deal. I also guess that this request will be granted by the AGCC. Full Tilt’s license would remain suspended under this scenario.”

“Another possibility (though less likely, IMO) for the September 19th hearing would be the AGCC deciding to revoke Full Tilt Poker’s license. I would be surprised if this took place on September 19th, but it is a possibility.”

Well, only time will tell and in a week we will be much wiser.

Source: Pokerista.net, Poker-King

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Poker-King speculation: Full Tilt will ask even more time

Watch ESPN Inside Deal: WPT Legends of Poker and Epic Poker League

The latest episode of ESPN Inside Deal is about WPT Legends of Poker and Epic Poker League. Legends of Poker winner Will “The Thrill” Failla visits the show and there’s a discussion about Epic Poker League’s Main Event.

Watch the video here.

Your hosts are Jon Anik and Andrew Feldman, and their studio is in Bristol this time.

Source: Pokerista.net

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Ilari Sahamies getting back the momentum: Wins $500K

Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies is burning hot at the moment. He won a bit over $500K from the online high stakes games last night. He also managed to win the biggest pot of the session: $421,821 pot from 200/$400 PLO.

Apart from Sahamies, Phil “MrSweets28″ Galfond ($369K) and Taiwanese “socutiesf” ($114K) made nice profit.

The biggest loser was Andreas “Skjervøy” Torbergsen who lost almost 653,000 dollars.

That $421,821 pot which “Ziigmund” was actually the biggest pot ever played on PokerStars. Sahamies is now up about half a million there.

Source: Pokerista.net, HSDB

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“Mucking Aces” - New poker themed comic strip

2+2 forum user “Eponymous”, who has released the popular “The Godfather of Online Poker” before, has now started a new comic strip called “Mucking Aces”.

The first strip is about Epic Poker League’s first Main Event which was won by David “Chino” Rheem. Rheem owes money to players like Ben Lamb, Tom Dwan and Will Molson.

The latest strip is about Phil Ivey and Allen Kessler.

Check out the comics here, of course you can also follow “Eponymous’” Twitter to see when there’s new material out.

Source: Pokerista.net

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Check out the fresh list of poker exiles - Hastings and Yanayt the new refugees

At least 26 well-known poker players have moved out from USA after the “Poker Black Friday”. The latest migrated pros are Brian “$tinger 88″ Hastings and Eugene “oogee/fishosaurusREX” Yanayt.

Hastings moved to Canada and Yanayt to Mexico - they both can now continue their online poker careers freely.

Apart from Canada and Mexico quite many palyers have moved to countries like Malta and UK. Here’s the full list:

• Eugene ‘oogee/fishosaurusREX’ Yanayt
  Jon ‘FatalError’ Aguiar
  Justin ‘ZeeJustin’ Bonomo
  Olivier Busquet
  Daniel Cates
  Ricky Fohrenbach
  Phil Galfond
  Steve ‘gboro780? Gross
  Brian ‘$tinger 88? Hastings
  Jonathan ‘Iftarii’ Jaffe
  McLean ‘PureProfitFo’ Karr
  Adam ‘Roothlus’ Levy
  Christina Lindley
  Richard ‘nutsinho’ Lyndaker
  Kevin ‘ImaLuckSac’ MacPhee
  Tom ‘kingsofcards’ Marchese
  Daniel Negreanu
  William ‘Altrum Altus’ Reynolds
  David ‘SexSeen’ Sands (aka. Doc Sands)
  Vanessa Selbst
  Dani ‘supernova9? Stern
  Ben ‘Sauce123? Sulsky
  Kevin ‘WizardofAhhs’ Thurman
  Brian Townsend
  Jon ‘PearlJammer’ Turner
  Isaac Haxton

It is believed that more players will move abroad until the end of 2011.

Source: Pokerista.net, Pokernyhederne.com

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PokerStars got one of their frozex bank account back: “Use $5,5 million at most”

US Department of Justice (DoJ) has just released one of the frozen PokerStars bank accounts which was seized during the “Poker Black Friday”. Both parties have now settled on an agreement that PokerStars can use 5,5 million dollars from the account.

The re-opened bank account is in a Luxembourg bank called Hapoalim. This account has been connected to Sphene International Limited, which is believed to handle PokerStars’ money transfers.

There’s no information about the full sum in the account, but PokerStars can use $5,5 million from it.

There are two other Sphene International Ltd. bank accounts which DoJ closed and these accounts will remain closed until further notice.

Source: Pokerista.net, eGamingReview

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PokerStars got one of their frozex bank account back: “Use $5,5 million at most”

Full Tilt’s public hearing postponed again

Full Tilt Poker has gotten four more days to sort their mess until the public hearing. The new hearing will take place on September 19 at 9am at the Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel in London.

AGCC (Alderney Gambling Control Comission) suspended all Full Tilt’s gaming licences in June, and shortly after that FTP had to close their online gaming service to all players.

It is very interesting to see if FTP has managed to find investors and are they able to continue their online games at all.

Source: Pokerista.net, EGR Magazine

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Full Tilt’s public hearing postponed again

Rumor: Entraction going to block Canadian, Israeli, Russian, Norwegian and Turkish players

According to Donkr.com, Entraction Network is going to ban all players from Canada, Israel, Russia, Norway and Turkey.

Donkr.com doesn’t really give us an explanation for the possible ban, so there’s quite much speculation going on around.

At least NoiQPoker’s Support person on 2+2 Forums has confirmed the bans.

It might be that the new owners of Entraction, IGT, are trying to hit the possible opening in the US market and are trying to bypass some law problems with the abovementioned countries if they get a new gambling license.

Source: Pokerista.net

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RedKings has a $2,500 Points Race in September. Be sure to check it out!

RedKings Poker is offering us a very special and unique treat. There’s goign to be an open $2,500 Points Race and you’re eligible to enter it.

The Points Race will be held in 1.-30.09 and 25 players who get the most points will be rewarded. The winner takes $500.

One Cash Game Point is equal to one Leaderboard Point and one Tournament Point equals to 0,5 Leaderboard Point.

There are some other competiotins runnign as well: the 20th Points Per Day Challenge and a $75,000 Race.

Prize Structure:

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RedKings has a $2,500 Points Race in September. Be sure to check it out!

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Betsafe will reward our players in September by running a $800 Points Race for our customers. There’s also a $5,005 Propagandapoker Loyalty Race and Betsafe September Races worth of $125,000.

Betsafe’s Points Race is really easy as you don’t need to grind much to get the extra cash, and with all the other benefits, your rakeback is really high.

$800 Points Race* (1.-30.09.) Prize Pool:

Position    Prize ($)
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2.    175
3.    100
4.    75
5.    50
6.    40
7.    30
8.    25
9.    15
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Two awesome $1,500 Private Races on Eurobet this month!

We will have TWO private $1,500 Points Races in September. Eurobet was kind enough to offer us this special opportunity to get huge value.

$3,000 Points Races

All our customers are automatically part of these two exclusive Races. First Race will be held 1.-15.9 and the second one 16.-30.09.

$1,500 Points Race prizes

1.    $325
2.    $250
3.    $200
4.    $150
5.    $125
6.    $100
7.    $75
8.    $60
9.    $50
10.  $50
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12.   $30
13.   $20
14.   $15
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Two awesome $1,500 Private Races on Eurobet this month!

Two Private Rake Races ($1,500) at CelebPoker in September

Want to get the best VIP deal? Want to earn easy money? CelebPoker is here for you then. We will have two Rake Races worth of $1,500 this month. The Vip deal and Rake Races will guarantee you almost 100% rakeback!

HSN private $1,500 Rake Races in September (01.-15.09. and 15.-30.09.):

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We will have double point days where you are able to get 2x VIP Points.

Remember: September 15th is the last day of the first Race and the first day of the second Race. These VIP Points are counted to both Races.

The double point days are in EVERY Saturday and Sunday.

Prize Pools for the $750 Races:

1. $200
2. $150
3. $125
4. $85
5. $60
6. $40
7. $30
8. $20
9. $20
10. $20

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Two Private Rake Races ($1,500) at CelebPoker in September

NoiQ Poker’s September: €1,000 special campaign

NoiQ is offering us a great way to spend time while it’s raining outside. NoiQ and High Stakes News are bring out the €1,000 Rake Race which will run though the month: from 1st to 30th of September.

Other promotions can be found on NoiQ website. We also have a 200% first-deposit bonus (max. €1,000).

€1,000 Private Rake Race

All players who have created their account through us will participate the Private Race automatically.

Prize pool:

1.    275 €
2.    200 €
3.    125 €
4.    80 €
5.    60 €
6.    50 €
7.    40 €
8.    40 €
9.    30 €
10.    25 €
11.    20 €
12.    20 €
13.    15 €
14.    10 €
15.    10 €

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Insane promotion on William Hill in September: Free €10 and 2x €1,000 races

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Position - Prize (€)

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3.    120
4.    100
5.    80
6.    70
7.    60
8.    50
9.    40
10.    30
11.    30
12.    25
13.    25
14.    20
15.    20
16.    15
17.    15
18.    10

€1,000 Private Rake Race (1.-30.09.):

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Position - Prize (€)

1.    300
2.    220
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Jason Mercier showed the Nuts in August and managed to keep Erik Seidel behind him

ESPN.com updated their The Nuts list from August and Jason Mercier is still holding the lead. Also Erik Seidel held his second position on the list.

Eugene Katchalov raised from the sixth position to third. Katchalov has been running really hot in the tournaments lately.

Vanessa Selbst is the only new player on the list. She took the 8th place right away.

ESPN The Nuts, August 2011 (July position inside the brackets):

Jason Mercier 1 (1)
Erik Seidel 2 (2)
Eugene Katchalov 3 (6)
Ben Lamb 4 (4)
Phil Hellmuth 5 (5)
John Juanda 6 (3)
Bertrand Grospellier 7 (8)
Vanessa Selbst 8 (-)
Phil Ivey 9 (7)
Daniel Negreanu 10 (10)

The Nuts is withheld by Matthew Parvis (PokerNews), Don Peters (PokerNews), Andrew Feldman (ESPN), Gary Wise (ESPN) and Bernard Lee (ESPN).

Source: Pokerista.net, ESPN.com

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Jason Mercier showed the Nuts in August and managed to keep Erik Seidel behind him

Jason Mercier showed the Nuts in August and managed to keep Erik Seidel behind him

ESPN.com updated their The Nuts list from August and Jason Mercier is still holding the lead. Also Erik Seidel held his second position on the list.

Eugene Katchalov raised from the sixth position to third. Katchalov has been running really hot in the tournaments lately.

Vanessa Selbst is the only new player on the list. She took the 8th place right away.

ESPN The Nuts, August 2011 (July position inside the brackets):

Jason Mercier 1 (1)
Erik Seidel 2 (2)
Eugene Katchalov 3 (6)
Ben Lamb 4 (4)
Phil Hellmuth 5 (5)
John Juanda 6 (3)
Bertrand Grospellier 7 (8)
Vanessa Selbst 8 (-)
Phil Ivey 9 (7)
Daniel Negreanu 10 (10)

The Nuts is withheld by Matthew Parvis (PokerNews), Don Peters (PokerNews), Andrew Feldman (ESPN), Gary Wise (ESPN) and Bernard Lee (ESPN).

Source: Pokerista.net, ESPN.com

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Jason Mercier showed the Nuts in August and managed to keep Erik Seidel behind him

Full Tilt Poker released new statement

Full Tilt Poker has released new statement. According to the statement, FTP was not prepared for the “Poker Black Friday” at all. They also reveal that they’re negotiating with six potential investors at the moment.

No new contracts have been signed yet, but they’re trying to find the best deal so they can pay back the money they owe to US players.

Here’s the whole statement:

“As is obvious from the events that have transpired since April 15th, Full Tilt Poker was not prepared for the far-reaching, US government enforcement effort of Black Friday.

The events of Black Friday came on the heels of prior government enforcement activities and significant theft. Over the two years preceding Black Friday, the US government seized approximately $115M of player funds located in U.S. banks.

We have recently engaged an additional financial advisor through an investment banking group to assist us in our search for an infusion of cash as well as a new management team to restore the site and repay players. While any deal of this nature is necessarily complex given the current regulatory environment, our players should know that Full Tilt Poker is fully committed to paying them back in full and restoring confidence in our operations.”

Full Tilt Poker’s next official hearing is on September 15 and they’re working hard to find the best investor until then.

Source: Pokerista.net

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Full Tilt Poker released new statement

Full Tilt lawyer Jeff Ifrah asnwering some questions

One of the Full Tilt Poker lawyers, Jeff Ifrah has began to answer some questions on 2+2 forums. Ifrah is asking for the former FTP players to write down some questions and he is trying to answer them as best as he can.

Ifrah creted an account to 2+2 forums where people can send him questions, but looks like that only few people have actually asked him anything reasonable.

Here are some of the Q&A:

“i_am_fish1″ asks if the players will get their money back.

Jeff Ifrah: Since FTP started the process of speaking with outside investors that has been their entire focus 24/7. They have made crystal clear to every investor that the US players and European players must be paid. I don’t understand what you mean in your last question by “lower”?

“irockhoess” wants to know why FTP has been so silent after the seizure.

Ifrah: “The company was unable to say anything for the past eight week due to a confidentiality agreement. Now it is ready and willing to make up for that silence. The idea of separately timed statements is to make sure the statement is clear and concise instead of overloaded with information. I hope that once the statements are out this will become more evident. I realize it is somewhat cold comfort right now and apologize for that.”

“Mycology” is asking about Ifrah’s motive and has he been authorized to answerd these questions.

Ifrah: “Nobody did. I am answering questions that I do not believe are privileged and passing the others to the company. I take responsibility for not having been able to get the company to issue its statement sooner.”

Looks liek there’s not that much new info on that 2+2 thread, but it can’t be bad if FTP lawyer has stepped up to answer the demand. There are huge load of questions Ifrah can’t answer though.

FTP’s official hearing is being held on September 15.

Source: Pokerista.net, TwoPlusTwo.com

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Full Tilt lawyer Jeff Ifrah asnwering some questions

Viktor Blom wins $726K from Ilari Sahamies

It just took only three hours for Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom to win $726,000 from Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies yesterday. Sahamies wasn’t that happy after the loss.

Sahamies updated his blog after the crushing loss. “Ziigmund” also adds that he hates poker at the moment:

“I played very weak and that was fair I lost my money.Now my girlfriend has to use sunglasses few days.”

Sahamies and Blom played $100/$200 PLO and looks like Sahamies has to drop the stakes to $25/$50 next week.

The biggest pot of the session:

Sahamies loses a $235,776 pot when Blom sets a trap after river

Source: Pokerista.net, Coinflip, HSDB

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Viktor Blom wins $726K from Ilari Sahamies

Daniel Negreanu hits the cash tables!

Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu has moved back to Canada (where he has born) and made a comeback to online cash games. Negreanu wrote a new entry to his blog earlier.

Negreanu tells that he missed online poker a lot, and that his new address is in Toronto, Canada.

He is also telling about his future travelling plans and about what the former online pros should do if they want to continue their careers. You can read the whole blog here.

Also Jason Koon, Steve “gboro780″ Gross and Tom Marchese are moving to Canada. Isaac Haxton is planning to move to Malta, just like his good friend Justin Bonomo did.

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Full Tilt Team Pro manager Chris Porter resigns

Looks like a lot of Full Tilt staff have been released - this time it was Chris Porter, the Full Tilt Team Pro manager who might have got sacked, although he apparently left the sinking ship by himself.

Porter is not the first one who has resigned/sacked from Full Tilt. Former Chief Marketing Officer Lothar Rentschler informed that he is leaving the company last Friday. Rentschler is believed to be Porter’s supervisor in Full Tilt.

It is not known if Porter left willingly or did he got sacked. Porter has been involved in a lot of things: he has been accused of selling some 100% rakeback accounts and also using multiple accounts when he was still working with Full Tilt.

Before his job in Full Tilt, Porter worked for Poker Royalty.

Source: Pokerista.net, Quadjacks.com

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Late Night Poker is back

The very popular poker show Late Night Poker is back. Filming of the new season started on August 23 in Cardiff. Late Night Poker had its premier as early as 1999.

This latest season will include 32 poker players battling each other.

28 of the players are professionals and the rest are internet players who won their seat from various satellites.

Some of the professionals are Liv Boeree, Vanessa Selbst, John Duthie, Sam Holden, Richard Ashby, Luke Schwartz, Toby Lewis, Barny Boatman, Jake Cody and Dave Ulliott.

Buy-in is 10,000 dollars and the winner will get 150,000 dollars.

The first episode will be aired on October 3rd from Channel 4.

Source: Pokerista.net, CardPlayer

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Daniel Negreanu has a new girlfriend

According to Rakerace.com and Quadjacks, Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu has a new girlfriend. Daniel’s new sweetheart is a Hungarian born hottie Krisztina Polgár.

Krisztina Polgár

Negreanu commented his new relationship in a Quadjacks interview:

“I met my new girlfirend at the World Series. She plays poker too. She just came up, she was just saying hi, ’cause she knew some friends and stuff.

So, we just started, you know, hitting it off, and she’s super cool. She lives in Budapest, Hungary. She was Miss Earth Hungary in 2008.”

Previously Negreanu has been dating such poker hotties as Evelyn Ng and Amanda Leatherman.

Negreanu is currently holding the second place in the All-time tournament winner list with almost $15 million profit.

Source: Pokerista.net, Rakerace.com

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Full Tilt releases new statement

Full Tilt Poker has released new statement to soothe their customers. According to the statement, Full Tilt is still negotiating with the party that is probably going to buy it.

Full Tilt is also regretting that they haven’t been informing their customers in a better way. In the future Full Tilt will try to use more resources to let people know what’s happening.

Here’s the full announcement:

Dublin, Ireland (August 22, 2011) – On August 16, Irish based Pocket Kings Ltd., brand executor for the Full Tilt Poker moniker, concluded the exclusivity period of negotiations with their current potential investor.

While Pocket Kings Ltd. plans to continue discussions with its current investor, the company has now begun negotiations with additional potential investors to conclude the sale/partnership of the Full Tilt Poker brand and its assets.

To the extent that it can do so without jeopardizing future opportunities, Full Tilt Poker will strive to have better communication with its customers going forward. Full Tilt Poker’s number one priority remains the same: to secure an infusion of capital to repay all of its worldwide customers.

Source: Pokerista.net, PokerNews

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