US Poker players will soon be able to submit their Full Tilt Poker Claims to recover their bankrolls which have been locked up for almost 2 years. The US Department of Justice have appointed the Garden City Group to assist with repaying players.

The massive task will return funds amounting to $159 million to more than a million US poker players who were victims of fraud in the Full Tilt Poker debacle.

The Full Tilt Poker Claims Administration website will allow players to submit their Petitions for Remission claim and receive compensation if eligible. Read More …

Online Poker in 2012 has had it’s ups and downs, one of the highlights of the year would be PokerStars bailing out Full Tilt Poker. The Full Tilt Poker relaunch restored player confidence in online poker and reunited most players with their bankrolls.

2012 also saw the rise in popularity of fast fold poker games, a new poker format which became popular with players when Full Tilt Poker released Rush Poker. Similar games have since been released and are known as PokerStars Zoom Poker, Party Poker FastForward and TitanPoker Speed Poker.

Mobile Poker has also been a new popular choice for players, with mobile poker apps being released by most of the top online poker sites including 888Poker, PokerStars and Bwin Poker.

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Zynga have joined forces with bwin.party to offer real money poker and casino games to UK players.

Zynga is the largest social gaming platform with millions of players in their database, the strategic move will see Zynga’s UK players added to the bwin.party database.

bwin.party will provide the software and support for Zynga real money poker and casino games. The partnership will begin exclusively with UK players with the hopes to expand into other markets.

Zynga Casino will feature the same real money casino games that can be found on PartyCasino and BwinCasino.

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The new Full Tilt Poker is set to reopen on 6^th November 2012 under the new owners PokerStars amid a wide range of controversy and without US players.

The latest controversy stems from Full Tilt Poker not paying affiliates their outstanding commissions and all previously referred players will not be carried forward, while this news was somewhat expected to some extent, they added further insult to injury by emailing their intent of a policy to remove amounts already paid into affiliates player balances from their player balances/bankrolls.

The Rational Group which operates PokerStars have denied any accountability to the debt owed to Full Tilt Affiliates despite the agreement reached between themselves and the US DOJ which clearly stated that the company must make available to foreign players all balances that were held in the Full Tilt accounts within 90 days.

The Full Tilt Poker affiliate website will remain inaccessible until they establish a new affiliate program which hints of a cross PokerStars / Full Tilt one access affiliate site where both brands will be promoted from, set to open sometime in 2013.

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In this opinion article we suggest that you Cashout your Full Tilt Poker Bankroll and don’t continue playing on the new site. Why you ask? When Full Tilt Poker re-opens on 6th November it may appear to be the same poker site with the latest technology and best online poker bonuses and promotions.

This will not be the case, when FullTilt returns it will be under the ownership of PokerStars.

We can however thank PokerStars for saving FullTilt and refunding a large percentage of players from around the World.

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