Full Tilt Poker Relaunch date is still set for November 6th, PokerStars have been really busy working behind the scenes to ensure the New Full Tilt Poker is ready for the relaunch. Full Tilt Poker have also acquired their license to operate from the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission.
A new count down timer appears on fulltiltpoker.com counting down the days till the poker room is back online, with less than a month to go many poker players have been anxiously waiting for this day since June 2011.
Gus Hansen has been confirmed as the brand ambassador and face for the new Full Tilt Poker. Popular promotions will also been returning including the Full Tilt Online Poker Series FTOPS XXI which is scheduled for December 2012.
Full Tilt Poker will be managed separately from PokerStars both sites will continue to operate as they always have with different promotions and tournaments, after all they are separate companies.
The new Full Tilt Poker has landed quite literally, server racks and equipment that make up the Full Tilt Poker servers were flown from Guernsey to the Isle of Man in anticipation of FullTilt’s 6th November relaunch date.
The server equipment was too large to fit onboard a regular aeroplane, so the new owners PokerStars opted to transport the 30 tons of hardware via a massive privately chartered Hercules Aircraft which touched down safely on Friday.
PokerStars head of corporate communications Eric Hollreiser mentioned in an interview with Isle of Man News – MTTV that all outstanding issues with the DOJ had been resolved and that PokerStars are committed to reopening Full Tilt Poker within the 90 day period ending on 6th November 2012. The equipment landing plays a significant role in ensuring that Full Tilt Poker opens in time.
The long awaited question of when will Full Tilt Poker open has finally been answered, add 6th November 2012 to your calendar as the date that Full Tilt Poker will officially reopen and be ready for action once again as an online poker room.
Full Tilt Poker will this time however be under totally different management and all player balances will be restored except for US and regulated European regions.
The newly formed Full Tilt poker management team will be independent of PokerStars and based out of Dublin, Ireland meaning they will not follow the mould of Pokerstars in terms of promotions, marketing, and tournaments but will instead be left to create their own brand to compete with Poker Stars.
USA players will look to the DOJ to repay their outstanding balances and will no longer be permitted to play at the re-launched FullTilt site.
Players from France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Estonia and Denmark the European regulated regions will be assisted by their regulators with plans in place for those regions to allow transfers of Full Tilt Poker balances to a PokerStars account in the region.
Luckily for all players who were owed money by FullTiltPoker, PokerStars reached an agreement with the US DOJ that grants all Full Tilt Poker assets to PokerStars. Part of the agreement reached includes the payment of all Full Tilt Poker players worldwide within 90 days.
Breaking News – Pokerstars Buys Full Tilt Poker, yes it’s finally official. PokerStars have acquired FullTiltPoker assets after reaching a deal with the Department of Justice which includes reimbursing players outside of the USA.
USA players funds will be handled and processed by the U.S. government, players from the rest of the world will have their funds available for withdrawal within 90 days.
PokerStars plan to relaunch the former number 2 poker site as a separate company and maintain segregated accounts ensuring players funds are available for withdrawal at all times.
Until now no official statement was released regarding the Pokerstars Rumor Full Tilt Poker Deal, a detailed PokerStars statement now features on the Full Tilt Poker homepage confirming all the rumors that Pokerstars Buys Full Tilt Poker deal is true.
A new rumor surfaced this week alleging that Pokerstars have pulled out on Full Tilt Poker deal, and the deal was just a ploy to prevent GBT from acquiring Full Tilt Poker. As strategic as this rumor sounds, Pokerstars Head of Corporate Communications Eric Hollreiser retweeted, ESPN Andrew Feldman tweet which stated that ‘Twitter rumors of PS folding on the FTP deal is false’.
While no actual statement has been made as to how and when the supposed the Full Tilt Poker deal is to take place, negotiations and settlement discussions are an ongoing process.
