Full Tilt Poker News

The owners of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are offering their customers $20 totally free. It comes with strings, but it is still money for old rope.

On November 6, Full Tilt Poker re-opened under new management after the Black Friday domain seizures. It was predicted to return with a bang, and it did.

Full Tilt Poker is back under new management. How does it shape up after the first day of real money tournament and cash games?

Full Tilt Poker will re-open sometime on Tuesday. Meanwhile, some players are already warming up on the play money tables. Everything else appears normal.

The Black Friday domain seizures hit on-line poker badly; it wasn't only domains that were seized. One group of players think they have found a way around this.

Full Tilt Poker has been off-line since the Black Friday domain seizures, but when it returns on November 6, it will be with a big series of freerolls and a new big money festival.

When Full Tilt Poker is relaunched on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, it will be with a much simplified player loyalty and reward scheme.

After months of speculation, wrangling and false leads, the date for the resurrection of Full Tilt Poker has been confirmed. It will re-open under new management on November 6.

Online poker giant PokerStars is following through on its promise to repay customers of former competitor Full Tilt Poker, which was shut down in 2011 - leaving millions of players without access to their bankrolls.

Next month, PokerStars is running its World Championship Of Online Poker: minimum buy-in $109. The good news is that satellites are already running.

Not content with taking your money, the poker sites want to take your money faster. Speed poker is here, for those would are prepared to oblige them.

A leading poker affiliate is offering a $10 bonus to clients who sign up with an on-line money transfer service. The big sites are offering free tournaments galore. And both Full Tilt and American players are still in the doldrums.

Although Full Tilt Poker is the major victim of the Black Friday domain seizures, it was not and is not the only one. Now, the long arm of American 'justice' is reaching out to the Island of Malta.

New York - One of the founders of Absolute Poker, a major on-line poker site, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy; Brent Buckley is now a self-confessed criminal, along with serial killer Ted Bundy.

PokerStars is the world's largest poker site; unlike its rival Full Tilt, it has survived the April 15 domain seizures very well, and is now about to host the largest tournament in history.

PokerStars, the world's self-proclaimed largest poker site, is attempting a world record on December 4, an on-line tournament with a $1 buy-in and a staggering 150,000 players.

The Black Friday domain seizures by the FBI and Department of Justice affected Full Tilt more than any other site, but it could just be coming back to life.

Full Tilt Poker is dead, but before it can be buried, the vultures are queuing up to pick the corpse clean. Meanwhile, other poker sites are offering promotions galore.

The sad saga of Full Tilt Poker drags on and on; although there is still a glimmer of hope for its resurrection, most realists accept that it is in effect dead and buried.

Full Tilt Poker may still be in limbo, but many other poker sites are doing fine, some are even giving away money, albeit with strings attached.

The sorry saga of the American Government’s criminalising of legitimate on-line gaming businesses has hit some harder than others.

An update on the FBI's war against on-line poker from a slightly irreverent viewpoint, and a perspective on poker outside the USA.