Poker After Dark Season 2 Episode 24 – World Series Legends – 3/3

TJ Cloutier Video clip Score: / 5

FULL TILT INVESTIGATION

The force of a French investment group to purchase Full Tilt Poker, the disturbed online poker operator for $ 80 million came down after the possible buyer could not fit with the Department of Justice regarding how quickly poker players with huge sum tied up on the site would be repaid, told the group’s lawyer yesterday.

A Washington-based attorney, Benham Dayanim, for Groupe Bernard Tapie, spoke to the Associated Press and revealed that prosecutors altered their bid earlier this month and looked for players full repayment within ninety days of the sale.

Dayanim told that they were not ready to do that. The Department of justice did not creat that deal breaker till the end. A spokesperson for the United States, Jerika Richardson, Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, denied the comment.
Barry Boss, the Full Tilt lawyer told in a statement that their deal with the Tapie group had been dismissed. Barry Boss told that in spite of this development Full Tilt Poker is very affirmative than ever that their number one target will be prevailed: Full Tilt players will be repaid. He further added that Full Tilt was in discussions for settlement, but he denied giving out details about it.

All the executives and others closely associated with Full Tilt were given a hint a year before on bank fraud charges as well as money laundering. Prosecutors told that they fobbed banks into processing funds illegally for online gambling by masking the defrayals as transactions for buys like flowers and golf balls.

Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament Season 1 episode 1 – 2/3

TJ Cloutier Video Score: / five

BIG NAMES HEAD TO IRELAND

Paddypoker.com has announced big names who will join Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Eoghan O’Dea in this year’s Irish Poker Open. The World Series Of Poker (WSOP) main event champion Carlos Mortenson, Faraz Jaka (WSOP and WTP finalist), Marvin Rettenmaier (France Poker Series Winner), Tobias Reinkenmeier (EPT High Roller Winner) will travel to Burlington Hotel, Dublin from April 6 to 9 in search of victory at one of the oldest poker tournament in Europe.

The weekend also provides great chance for players to join some of the biggest names in the world of poker by succeeding online at paddypowerpoker.com. The tournament takes place on this Sunday March 18 at 20:00 in EUR300+EUR20 with 30 packages guaranteed and each package is worth EUR 4600. It is made up of an Irish Open 2012 Main Event seat with accommodation of 5 nights in Burlington Hotel plus EUR 655 for travel expenses. The total prize money guaranteed by paddypowerpoker.com is EUR 138,000.

Paddy Power, Communications Manager at paddypowerpoker.com said that they are delighted to welcome such great players for the Irish Open and with 30 packages guaranteed, there is no better place to be than St.Patrick’s weekend.

Poker Superstars III Episode 2

TJ Cloutier Video clip Rating: 4 / five

POKER CHOCTAW KICKS OFF

The World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw had a total of 947 participants. The first qualifying day that has already ended had 647 players on Day 1A and had 300 players on Day 1B. The event went on for 14 hours with action packed play and finally ended with 498 survivors qualifying for the second day of competition. The rank of a chip-leader went to Chris Tiller. Tiller has a secure position for the rest of the competition with a stack of 167,500 chips. La Sengphet held the second position with 144,000 chips.

The day1 saw the early elimination of some of the prominent professional poker players. To name a few of them are Gavin Smith, Todd Brunson and Ylon Schwartz. Along with TJ Coultier, some of the well known players who would be back at the Poker room for Day 2 would include James Van Aistyne, Tommy Vedes, Men Nguyen, Tom McEvoy, Scotty Nguyen, Roland Israel, Dennis Phillips, Layne Flack, Chad Brown, Kattamuri Raja and Drazen Illich. Huy Nguyen who was the champion of the series last year has participated in the tournament to defend his title this year and has qualified for the Day2.

Kattamuri Raja played an incredible game from the very beginning in the World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw, he has already won some attractive offers like two gold jewellery by picking the trophy for event 3, a No-limit Hold’em of $555 buy-in and event 3 and heads’Up No limit Hold’em. Raja Kattamuri has also succeeded to get the second place of the tournament Six Max No-Limit Hold’em with $345 and also the 6th place at the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament at $345.