The home of 888 poker has secured a gaming license in Italy. 888 Holdings, the parent company of one of the first online poker rooms, has expanded to allow Italian players. This move comes as good news for poker players in Italy, who will be able to play on the popular online poker room now that the required licenses have been secured. 888 Holdings may offer an online casino in addition to an online poker room, both of which would be open for play for players from Italy.
Full Tilt Poker made another announcement Monday. We’ll tell you what it said, bring you the results from the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship, and more.
Members of Team PokerNews make predictions for the 2011 World Series of Poker.
Online poker room Full Tilt Poker is not yet paying back its customers. The poker room had announced that some funds had been unfrozen but are not yet available. The poker site was one of many targeted by the US federal government when they seized poker sites and shut them down temporarily. US players are not allowed on these sites and are looking for their money back, and till now the funds at Full Tilt Poker were frozen. Just recently at least one major account was unfrozen, but the site said in an official statement “We still do not have a specific timeframe for this.”
This week, Pinnacle moves into Asia, 888 moves into Italy, and Station Casinos moves on from Aliante.
In the final edition of this series, we take a look at one of the favorites for 2011 WSOP Rookie of the Year, Mike “Timex” McDonald.
Over the last few days, rumblings could be heard in the online poker community that Full Tilt Poker was going to make some sort of announcement on May 30th. People’s hopes were raised, thinking that this may mean that Full Tilt was ready to start sending payments out to U.S. customers, who have had their bankrolls locked up in their Full Tilt accounts since Black Friday, which was a month and a half ago. As it turned out, an announcement was made on Monday, but to the dismay of most, it was more of the same.
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