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Party Poker Brings Back $5,000 Bankroll Booster

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The Party Poker $5,000 Bankroll Booster has returned. In this popular promotion, PartyPoker hosts a special weekly tournament with a $5,000 guaranteed prize pool and no direct cash or points buy-in. Instead there are a handful of other ways you can enter this tournament week after week.

While there is no cash buy-in for the $5,000 Bankroll Booster, which is held each Sunday at 14:30 ET, cash deposits can land you tickets into the event, whether you’re a new or existing member.

New players who made their first deposit of any amount into a real money Party Poker account gain access to daily qualifier tournaments for a whole month. The top 50 finishers in each of these tournaments win tickets into the following Sunday’s event.

Existing players can win tickets directly into the Bankroll Booster by making a deposit into their real money PartyPoker account without having to excel in any qualifier tournaments first. These players need only remember to use the bonus code: BOOSTER when making their reload deposit to be credited their ticket into the following Sunday’s event.

Likewise, while there is no points buy-in for the Bankroll Booster there are two other ways that you can earn or win tickets into the event by using points. You can either earn 60 points over the course of the week prior to any given Sunday’s event and automatically earn a ticket into that event. Or you can enter a qualifier tournament for just 1 point and if you’re one of the top 25 finishers you’ll win a ticket into the event.

Alderney suspends Full Tilt Poker’s operating licence

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BREAKING NEWS: The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has suspended the licences for Full Tilt Poker. Full Tilt is required to suspend all operations from within the jurisdiction immediately.

The AGCC said in a statement this morning: “The decision to suspend these licenses follows a special investigation prompted by the indictments unsealed by US Attorney General’s Office in the Southern District of New York on 15th April 2011, during which grounds were found to indicate that these licensees and their business associates were operating contrary to Alderney legislation.”

From what we are being told the Full Tilt Poker software does not open and for now at least they are closed. There has been no official announcement by Full Tilt Poker.

We’ll have more on this developing situation when we get more details.

Update:

AGCC’s official announcement:

In the matters of:-
VANTAGE LIMITED
OXALIC LIMITED
FILCO LIMITED
And
ORINIC LIMITED

Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has today issued Hearing Notices under Regulation 46 of the Alderney eGambling Regulations, 2009 to the above named companies who collectively trade as FULL TILT POKER.

In addition, AGCC has issued Suspension Notices under Regulation 47 of the Alderney eGambling Regulations, 2009 to the above named companies requiring them to immediately suspend operations.

The above named companies must, until the Suspension Notices are cancelled or the Commissioners of AGCC have reached a determination at the conclusion of the hearing convened in accordance with Regulation 46 of the Alderney eGambling Regulations, 2009 cease to exercise their eGambling licenses, which means that these licensees must from today cease to:-

Register new customers;

Accept deposits from existing customers;

Allow existing customers to withdraw funds that are held in their accounts; and

Permit customers to participate in any form of poker game play or gambling
transaction.

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission will hear the matters contained in the Hearing Notices at a Regulatory Hearing which will commence at 10.00am on Tuesday 26th July, 2011 at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1EQ. In the event that there is a change to these details this notice will be amended.

André Wilsenach (Executive Director) Alderney Gambling Control Commission Alderney, Channel Islands
29th June, 2011

2nd UPDATE:

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission will hear the matters contained in the Hearing Notices at a Regulatory Hearing which will commence at 10.00am on Tuesday 26th July, 2011 at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1EQ. In the event that there is a change to these details this notice will be amended.
André Wilsenach (Executive Director)
Alderney Gambling Control Commission
Alderney, Channel Islands
29th June, 2011

UB Poker has Suspended Real Money Play in the US

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UB.comUB Poker just suspended real money play for US residents.  A statement regarding the suspension on play now pops up for players trying to connect from the USA.

This comes as a slight surprise to us as they had chosen to remain open for the last few days while Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars had immediately suspended real money play on their poker websites. The UB website has been moved to www.ubpoker.eu for players outside the US. For customer support you can contact support@ub.net. They are being flooded with emails at the moment so please show some patience.

Here is the greeting that players from the US will see when and if they can connect to the UB client:

***Some players in the US are saying they can still log in and play for real money. I cannot even connect to the server.

Pokerstars has Suspended Real Money Play in the US

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Pokerstars has finally issued an announcement to last week’s indictment and their leaving the US poker market. Several big name pros have come out and said that players should give the poker sites some time to get things worked out and that they would get their money as soon as possible.

Poker Sites that Accept Players from the USA

“As you may have heard, we have had to suspend real money poker services to people based in the U.S. due to legal developments there.”

“The developments are confined to the U.S. and do not have any impact on your ability to continue using our services. Please be assured player balances are safe. There is no cause for concern. For all customers outside the U.S. it is business as usual.”

“Please be aware that we are currently experiencing a very high volume of emails, so our response times are delayed. We will answer player emails as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.”

April 17, 2011 Update:

  • Both the PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge and PokerStars.net Big Game have been cancelled.