http://www.highstakesnews.com Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:23:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a rumor in the wild that Full Tilt Poker has lost its gaming license permanently. Aparently Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has revoked FTP's gaming license for good as they also suspect that Full Tilt was a huge ponzi scheme. According to the source (iGaming Post), they got the news ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/22/full-tilt-lost-its-gaming-license-permanently-was-full-tilt-a-ponzi-scheme/ According to Poker-King.com, the very popular The Hendon Mob (www.thehendonmob.com) has cut all their ties with Full Tilt Poker today. The Hendon Mob announced their cut just a few hours before the actual hearing of Full Tilt Poker. They have now removed all the adds from the site already. Full Tilt Poker's "public" ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/19/the-hendon-mob-cuts-their-ties-with-full-tilt-poker-ftps-hearing-happening-today/ Nick Rainey is a known poker player, he placed 106th in the 2010 WSOP Main Event and has been an assistant to pros like Patrik Antonius and Andrew Robl. Rainey sold some shares to this year's WSOP Main Event through 2+2 and wrote to Twitter that he dropped out early. When ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/17/patrik-antonius-former-assistant-is-a-scammer/ AGCC has just released a press statement where they say that the Full Tilt Poker's "public" hearing on September 19th will be held behind closed doors. Previously they stated that it is an open hearing. AGCC's decision has raised lots of resent as most players would like to see where Full ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/15/full-tilts-hearing-will-be-held-behind-closed-doors/ Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies is currently leading the internet winning statistics this month. He has already won about 1,2 million dollars durng the first weeks of September. Ilari "Ziigmund/Ilari FIN" Sahamies sitting at the Grand Casino Helsinki According to Ilari himself, the online games have been really good and wild. There was ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/15/ziigmund-sahamies-running-hot-12-million-profits-this-month/ In August, there was a suspicion that there were few scammers playing together on 888poker. PokerStrategy coach Darren Woods is believed to be part of this scam ring which lead to huge wins. The scam ring won hundreds of thousands of dollars in the end. Now the whole case have been ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/14/another-scammer-amongst-the-pokerstrategy-coaches/ Full Tilt Poker's hearing is scheduled on 19th this month. At least Poker-King.com doesn't believe that there's much happening in that event - They even think that Full Tilt will try to buy more time to get their business sorted. Poker-King writes that there's now only a week to the public ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/12/poker-king-speculation-full-tilt-will-ask-even-more-time/ The latest episode of ESPN Inside Deal is about WPT Legends of Poker and Epic Poker League. Legends of Poker winner Will "The Thrill" Failla visits the show and there's a discussion about Epic Poker League's Main Event. Watch the video here. Your hosts are Jon Anik and Andrew Feldman, and their ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/09/watch-espn-inside-deal-wpt-legends-of-poker-and-epic-poker-league/ Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies is burning hot at the moment. He won a bit over $500K from the online high stakes games last night. He also managed to win the biggest pot of the session: $421,821 pot from 200/$400 PLO. Apart from Sahamies, Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond ($369K) and Taiwanese "socutiesf" ($114K) ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/08/ilari-sahamies-getting-back-the-momentum-wins-500k/ 2+2 forum user "Eponymous", who has released the popular "The Godfather of Online Poker" before, has now started a new comic strip called "Mucking Aces". The first strip is about Epic Poker League's first Main Event which was won by David "Chino" Rheem. Rheem owes money to players like Ben Lamb, ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2011/09/07/mucking-aces-new-poker-themed-comic-strip/