In what seems to be a desperate plea, the Attorney Jeff Ifrah who is handling the case for Full Tilt Poker has taken to online begging, asking players [the same players that have been screwed out of their money from this now defunct poker company] to lobby the Alderney Gambling Control Commission to plead to the courts for a further delay in case. In the mean time, the US Department of Justice ordered warrants for the bank accounts that belong to numerous owners of Full Tilt Poker to have them seized. The accounts belong to Raymond Bitar, the CEO and three high profile players Howard Lederer, Fare Furst and Chris Ferguson.
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Tags: Desperate Plea, Full Tilt Poker, Players, Tilt Poker
Yesterday I blogged about Matt Giannetti winning the WPT in Malta, well now there is another WPT Champion to celebrate as Bobby Oboodi took home $922,441 in winnings when he triumphed in the tournament’s $3,500 buy-in event at the Borgata Casino, Atlantic City; Oboodi beat Jin Hwang to take the title.
The final table started with Oboodi sharing the lead with WSOP bracelet winner Fred Goldberg. For a brief moment Oboodi separated himself from the field as he shut out Ricky Hale with an A-K to his A-10. Oboodi would temporarily lose these chips to Goldberg later on the the game when he went on to elimate Darren Elias in fifth and Goldberg in fourth to own just under 2/3 of the chips. Hwang
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The Czech online and land gambling group Fortuna Entertainment has posted its H1-2011 results, reporting that online operations have driven higher turnover.The company posted a 19% rise in first-half net profit thanks to the higher bets and lower costs, ikt revealed Thursday.Net profit reached Euro 8.6 million euros ($12 million) from a total amount of bets up 9% from a year ago to Euro 209 million, roughly in line with expectations.Management said that online betting was a major factor behind growth for the group, which is active in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.Gross win in the period was a touch below estimates at Euro 47.9 million euros, up 5.5% from the previous year.Fortuna revealed that it is in talks with Czech rival Tipsport about taking over its Polish subsidiary, which it said would boost market share by a third. Read the rest of article…
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Today we would like to introduce you a new, exciting heads up poker game, called Five-O Poker.
In Five-O Poker, each player is dealt five cards face up, lined up in a row. Then, in turn, each player draws a card from the deck and places it face up on one of the five cards (columns) that they have. Eventually, each player will have 5 hands (columns) of five cards each. The game ends by matching each of the columns to the corresponding column of your opponent. The winner has the higher poker hand in three (or more) out of the five poker hands.
There are only two rules: 1) The fifth (and last) row of cards are placed face down, your opponent is not aware of what you have.
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