Ivey’s White Knight Deal Almost Done + Full Tilt Poker - Wicked Chops Podcast
The LA Times broke a story last night that Full Tilt Poker had sold to a group of European Investors (i.e. Ivey’s White KnightTM). Like Jason Biggs hopping in the sack with Shannon Elizabeth, the story...
View ArticleInterview with the Alderney Gambling Control Commissioner - APCW Perspectives...
LAS VEGAS–This week J Todd travels to the Global Gaming Expo. In his exclusive video interview with Andre Wilsenach, the CEO of Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Mr Wilsenach clearly points the...
View ArticleVegas Comes to the Channel Islands Alderney & Nevada Regulators Sign...
I was all set this morning to write a blog entry on the continuing dispute in Kennedy & Omotoy v. Full Tilt Poker et al. (The original post by Dan Michalski was back in 2009.) This litigation is...
View ArticleAlderney Suspends Full Tilt’s Gaming License - Beleaguered online poker site...
Beleaguered online poker site down for good? The Alderney Gambling Control Commission has suspended the gaming license of Full Tilt Poker and Vantage Limited dba FullTilt.com. The AGCC says they must...
View ArticleLOL: Nevada Regulators Get Email
You can’t really claim to set the “gold standard” for gambling regulation if your licensees still have to submit their reports via fax. Thankfully, as Harry Reid’s home state of Nevada gets its...
View Article“Reported” Full Tilt Payback: Lederer Ships @ToddBrunson $150k? - And did...
And did Doyle buy the FTP farm in Bellagio chips? The 2011 WSOP wouldn’t be the 2011 WSOP without chatter about Full Tilt. And here, on the last day, Howard Lederer makes another appearance in Las...
View ArticleFull Tilt’s Euro Backers Yet To Commit As Hearing Approaches
LONDON–There’s nothing more exciting than mysterious European investors. The kind of people who turn up in blurry photographs, wearing sunglasses while looking into the middle distance. At least that’s...
View ArticleFull Tilt Shut Out the Public at Alderney Hearing
LONDON — I am sat here, closeted in a London cafe, writing. Across the street, in the Park Plaza Victoria Hotel, Full Tilt’s lawyers are arguing forcefully to have their hearing with the Alderney...
View ArticleTilt on Tilt
The Full Tilt section 49 hearing in London is continuing. The hearing commissioners are apparently considering whether to continue the proceedings in camera (i.e., in private), further to Full Tilt’s...
View ArticleWaiting for Bitar - Alderney hearing: a tragicomedy in two acts?
Alderney hearing: a tragicomedy in two acts? NO PLAYING AROUND, but who then is toying with whom? LONDON — Those hoping for a definitive answer on the future of Full Tilt and their funds will have to...
View ArticleMissing Money & Missing the Point - Clearing up the issue of Full Tilt's 250k...
Clearing up the issue of Full Tilt's 250k Alderney debt. Since Tuesday’s Full Tilt hearing, a surprising amount of misinformation has been swilling around the internet. Surprising, because so few...
View ArticleWider World of Poker - AGCC miscalculations, WHO's Israeli uprising, a...
AGCC miscalculations, WHO's Israeli uprising, a troublesome Turkish blockade, and one hot Danish model Slip off your coat and make your way into my small corner of Pokerati — a newly built alcove in...
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