Lederer settles federal charges

As part of this week's settlement,
Lederer contends that Full Tilt Poker
was a "legitimate business providing
services to its customers within the
bounds of the law, and that prior to
April 15, 2011, he was unaware of
any wrongful activity at Full Tilt Poker
including that the company had become
unable to satisfy its player account liabilities."

He also admits no wrong doing in the matter.

Lederer will forfeit funds in a Isle of Man-based
bank account, properties in Las Vegas, and a
1965 Shelby Cobra roadster. He also agreed
to the entry of a civil money-laundering penalty
judgment in the amount of $1.25 million,
all of which must be paid within three years.


Source: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/12/howard-lederer-settles-civil-case-with-sdny-14032.htm

Full Tilt Happy Hour

Just a heads up earn extra 2x FTP's 
during Happy Hour Week, Dec 24-31.

Alternative way to earn Vegas comps

There's a game on Facebook called MyVegas.
It lets you play table games and slots and earn
REAL comps at MGM properties in Las Vegas.
Everything from hotel rooms and steak dinners
to Cirque de Soleil shows. No joke.  + EV
Doesnt cost you a dime other than your time.

After several weeks of consistant play
I've already earned a Bellagio buffet
and $150 steakhouse credit


Comps are easy to redeem at any Mlife counter.

After being offline for over sixteen months,
Rational Group relaunched Full Tilt Poker
across the world on today (minus USA,
France, Spain, Denmark, Estonia and Belgium)

Good luck to everyone at the tables.

p.s.  lots of bad players at low stakes 
Rush cash tables, probably wont be long
before they nit up, so enjoy while it lasts.

Greg Merson Wins World Series Of Poker Main Event

After a 402-hand marathon final table,
Greg Merson took down the 2012
World Series of Poker main event.

Merson, 24, who hails from Laurel, MD, 
beat 6,598 others to capture the $8.5 million
first prize and bracelet.  This was his second
bracelet of the 2012 World Series,
earning more than 1.1 million back in July.

2012 WSOP schedule released

The 2012 WSOP schedule features 61 WSOP bracelet events and runs from May 27 - July 16.

New events incude:
$3,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha
$5,000 Mix-Max No Limit Hold’em
$2,500 Four-Handed No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 Antes Only No Limit Hold’em event
$1,000,000 "Big One"

you can get a complete copy of all events here:
http://www.wsop.com/2012/2012-WSOP-SCHEDULE.pdf

2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) has wrapped up.


Xuan Liu of Toronto finished 4th in the main event and took home $600,000, the biggest of her career. On the same final table, Mark Drover of St.John’s NF finished 5th for $468,000 and David Bernstein finished 7th for $260,000.

Jonathan Duhamel finished 2nd in the $25k 8max NLHE event for $634,550, 4th in the $100k super high roller for $300k+, and a 5th in a $5k turbo event. He also won a $5k NLHE event for $239,830.