Following the April 15th Full Tilt Poker shut down in the US, the second biggest online poker room in the world now seems to have seen its operation suspended everywhere else.
Apparently many tournaments and cash games were still running when Full Tilt suddenly ceased operating, with players now unable to withdraw money from their accounts.
The dramatic news broke today after the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) announced it was suspending Full Tilt Poker’s operating licence for the sake of public interest, and stated:
“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.”
The matter of Full Tilt Poker’s license has now receive a hearing date of July 26th from the AGCC. In the meantime, the AGCC has stipulated that Full Tilt must not:
1: Register new customers
2: Accept deposits from existing customers
3: Allow existing customers to withdraw funds that are held in their accounts
4: Permit customers to participate in any form of poker game play or gambling transaction.
Full Tilt servers are currently inaccessible to UK players, while the site’s European customers are being told the online poker room is apparently undergoing ‘Scheduled Maintenance.’
It is now uncertain whether and when the site will re-open and what will happen to player’s deposits in the UK, Europe, and the Rest of the World.
The poker-verse has since been flooded by concerned and interested parties posting on twitter, Two Plus Two poker forums and social networks.
UK pro Keith Hawkins wrote: “Full Tilt ceases operations. I guess after Black Friday, today should be called Predictable Wednesday. I hope everyone gets their money.”
Full Tilt celebrity Tom Dwan seemed convinced the site would pull through after Black-Friday, and tweeted at the time:
“I’d guess ftp/stars is worth more than 93c on the $ (almost 100% u get paid but could take 2-3mnths n worst case more.”
Dwan had since offered to return monies received from the site in the event of non-payment but following today’s remarkable breaking news simply stated:
“Seems like Alderney regulatory body (where ftp’s license is) just shut down ftp. Wow I think?”
This sucks…
We better get our money!
Dwan said that to cover his own ass and to deflect heat off of him. I would love to take odds on him ever paying out one dime to anybody but maybe his closest buddies and even that will probably have juice.
Are ‘play money” sites still in operation? ant get on this AM?!
This is really insane, what are we gonna do with our money now? the only remaining trusted sites in the UK are 888poker and (maybe) party.
omg why cant they pay our money out???its noones money but ours thats it in a nut shell we should all flood the social networks and make them hear us….WE WANT OUR MONEY!!
RIP FULLTILT… pokerstars ITS COMING
Thanks to who ever it was shutting down the site without warning, very dissappointed quiet simply if you don’t want to gamble don’t play at all and just when I was in the final 6 on the final table this is just crap, poker player from Australia
bulls**te
i dont get it iv got 2.5k in my account will i be able to withdraw soon?
Even the play chip tables are down lol. back to pkr.com for me i guess hopefully the drama has ended there.
What am I going to do now? This is stupid, leave us alone legislators we are doing no harm.
have the balls to contact us players with the procedgers on how to retreive our monies onour acct.!! they know which accts are money lounders and drug dealers! so start righting checkes to us players who do not need this bulls**t
this sux
typical government agencies trying to dictate everything we can and cant do. get of our backs and let us live our lives the way we see fit. the only thing the public has an interest in is getting whats theirs. THEIR MONEY BACK !!!!!!!!
Surely, ftp must be allowed to refund innocent honest players with small balances on account,say,$5,000 or less immediately. If not then does this not mean some one will benefit unjustly.
The 9 hander cash tables have been very dull ove rthe last few months maybe because so may good US players barred
Bunch of f##ing c###.
looks like it will be at least the 26th. that hopin they get their license back
they have a number of accounts from which they took money when we did first deposit, so I dont see what is the problem to send us our money if they cant fix problem in 2 days. Otherwise we should fight for our right and our money!
So obvious that this was going to happen. I said on 2+2 about 2 years ago that FT will end up being shut down for illegal actions (don’t ask how I knew, I did, that’s all i’ll say), funny at the time on 2+2 i was told that i didn’t know what I was talking about and had my account banned. Now, I do feel sorry for all the players world wide that are now without their $, but come on, be serious, did you really think that they would survive after what happened to the USA players, you were silly not to withdraw your funds at the time.
This sucks! How is poker gambling?yet betting on horses and other events still allowed? Wake up, its our money!
wat a bugger small peeps loose out again
NO ONE WILL EVER GET ANY OF THEIR $$$$ FROM THAT CROOKED RUN SITE. OH MAN HOWARD FOR CEO OF THE CENTURY UH. WHAT A GREAT NAME FTP, BUT A SRY SRY AWFUL RUN COMPANY. NO WONDER GUS COULD LOSE OR WIN A MILLION A DAY IT WAS OUR F**ING $$$$$….
I have no money in full tilt,,,only play with chips, so now when is full tilt poker coming back on ? Want to play poker with chips
Please hurry and get it back UP
ugh
Oh my god…. One thing that i just realized… You guys remember DjAddi, Neo1, Kagome Kagome.. kinda strange they didnt withdraw their Milliondollarbankrolls out after black friday.. Maybe something behind the scenes? they prob got their money already withdrawed from fulltilt.. “VIP player”
Man you people are stupid.
“When will we get our money!?” “Why can’t they pay us our money!? They have our account info…..”
Its not about not having the account info. ITs about not having the MONEY. In case you missed it, Full Tilt attempted to file BANKRUPTCY a couple weeks ago. That means they have no money. They needed to raise $150million in funds to pay out already-requested cashouts from US players, and they apparently didn’t have the money sitting in the bank to pay those out. They’ve been spending your money all along.
I cashed out of Pokerstars months ago, and got all of my funds down to the penny. And they had no problem paying out the hundreds of millions of dollars to US players, and in a fairly timely fashion. That’s because Pokerstars was a well-run company. They let the money sit that had been deposited by players, because they were making enough off of rakes and interest income while that money sat around.
On the other hand, FTP got greedy. And spent that money, assuming there wouldn’t be an En-MAsse Cashout, and that this problem would never arise. Well now its here, and FTP doesn’t have the liquid cash to pay out the requests. And now, they are getting shut down because of that fact alone. They’re dirty, they’ve been spending your money before its “theirs”…..and now the world has noticed.
Hopefully you folks get your money…..but at this point, the reason you’re not getting it is NOT because they can’t get it to your bank account. ITs because they dont’ HAVE the money to GIVE you………
Gimme a break no one has bankrolls on FT or any other poker site.They’re all meant to keep you depositing no matter how good your stats are. How many times have you had aces cracked that wouldn’t happen in the real world. Even the good players have won lots but never had a +roi. Quit foolin yourself. Bring on those 7/2 suited all ins suckers.
i have 4k in my account will i ever get it
I think we need to get legislation to rescind the current law.
There are “unjust laws as there are unjust men”. This is nothing but a political ploy – to show – the “morality” of the politician. A total conflict in terms and a terrible joke. As Cicero stated most succintly: Politicians don’t speak – they merely excrete!!! The sheer waste of governement resources that could be put to much better use is simply astounding!!!
I did not have any money in “full tilt”- I do hope that those who did use real money will be reimbursed for their loss. Very honestly though, “Full Tilt” has no incentive to return it with the present sanctions..
I’m a us player.. Even if full tilt is able to pay they won’t pay out any of you before paying the us players first. We’ve been waiting since April and haven’t heard any updates about when well be paid. Now it’ll be even longer then before..if ever.
I’ll miss rush poker
SSSS
OMFG… I had a nice bankroll I and was about to make a huge withdrawal because since BF I didnt feel that my money were very sure there…Altough the situation it wasnt the best, the business still ran with a lot of players yet, I didnt think FT was gonna broke or something, but who could imagine that, losing his license for the whole world?
No incentive to return the money????
It’s not their damned money. It’s OURS. FTP has proven itself to be a group of greedy, thieving liars.
The government is full of crap too but don’t put lack of funds on THEM. That’s is 100% FTP.
So, thanks, Howard Lederer, Eric Seidel, Perry Friedman, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Mike Matasow, and all the others who conned out of our cash. I hope they come after you and lock you up.
here is the mail of AGCC: info@agcc.gg. I just send them a mail. I told them what is that weird supossed ‘public interest’ that consist in screw all the players who had a bank in FT. We want our money back, MF
“Our license in the Isle of Man requires us to keep player funds separate from the company’s operating funds. PokerStars has always complied with this requirement and continues to do so for all of our player deposits.”
That is the statement from the pokerstars website about US players funds before they returned them. Its very possible that AGCC also had similar requirements for full tilt to keep player funds separate from operating costs but they did not comply. and thats why US players havent been able to withdraw, and thats why the AGCC shut them down now, because they violated their agreement. Lets all just hope they come to some agreement on the 26th and some investors inject some money into FT. My guess is it will take atleast a year for people to see their cashouts.
Goog that Full Tilt is shot down! The site was full of s h i t ! CROOKS that what Full Tilt was !
I hope everyone gets their money, but I’m also happy that this is another step toward the U.S. having its own, regulated poker sites. Been waiting on that for years. The U.S. needs the tax dollars and U.S. players need honest, regulated poker sites.
I HAD 22K IN MY BANKROLL I M SO PISSED. This is unreal!!!!!
Can they just disappear like this?
yeah “public interest” what a joke!
my mate had over 100k sat in he’s account,played 25/50$ blinds,he reckons we can all kiss goodbye to all of it..
You can’t take your money out because of the fraudulant accounts holding massive amounts of cash robbed from the honest players. Full tilt bots have been winning massive tourneys and robbing you of your cash!!
Online poker profits should be a simple number – due to the amount of hands and tourneys fees/rakes. The fact they had to hide and launder it is all part of the horrible theft
any1 with fulltilt clothing at the wsop is going to get the bash im pissed off i want my money
i want a headjob and my money they better give me a headjob and my money or i will blow in their mouth
i dont blame anybody but the DOJ. before they froze all but one of there bank accounts i never had a problem withdrawing my money. everybody is blaming full tilt which i can kind of see but if the DOJ unfroze 1 of the 8 other accounts just to pay us back full tilt would still be up and running. they wont do this though cause they want there 3 billion dollars in fines while we take it up the rear. great government huh?
what a load of boll**ks!!!! this site is advertised on national tv.
we want our money back
This has nothing to do with frozen accounts. The DOJ reopened the frozen accounts for these poker sites so that they COULD pay out players. Pokerstars and Full Tilt were given the same rules to follow. One paid out their players, the other filed bankruptcy. But both had the same set of rules to follow……
The DOJ started the ball rolling. But after the ball started rolling and everyone tried to get their money out and get out of the way…..we found out that Full Tilt didn’t really have the money sitting, waiting to be cashed out…….Fortunately, I played on PokerStars, and I’m glad I did. Sounds like they were the best of the bunch, when it came to operating responsibly and without attempting to take advantage of people……
It’s tough, I was fortunate as I withdrew 80% of my bankroll last week, as for the rest – IT’S GONE!
I feel let down by the release of information from these so called ‘POKER NEWS’ sites & magazines that didn’t bring any real information forward of what was going on behind the scenes to the public fore front so we can make informed choices.
Instead they deal in gossip, ideal chat and wasteful articles,
ivey sued, they filled for bankrupcy, they tried to sell, no money has been returned, the possibility of having their licence revoked can happen – how has none of this info been grouped together and been shot out accross the comunity as a HEADLINE WARNING
it’s just been dribbled through, what a let down
motherfakkas give us our money
day light fking robbery….. just a fking joke. i had about 100 dollars in my account i suppose i can live with the loss but its not the point. i really do feel sorry for the people with alot in their accounts cos its probably gone forever. well done full tilt u fking robbing c**ts
anyone who could not see that Full Tilt used rigged software was/is a fool and a fool and his money are soon parted, and anyone paid while taking part in promoting Full Tilt was/is a whore, that includes all the pro players and all the final table players at the WSOP and the officials at the WSOP
Robbing b~stards ….
its not about rigged software idiot .they all have that.the 2 largest poker site going down.bad for everyone.pokerstars next?????
OMG …Please open play money i’m having withdraws…lol
let’s open a group of facebook for those who had their money on fulltilt!!! we have to do something
its funny, people cry about the government getting involved , now you should realize why . this should have been done along time ago. the crooks are exposed and yet people still want to complain about the government. full tilt is the problem here not the FBI , not the US government . i dont like government messing with my freedoms but in this case i belive they did the right thing. a site involving money with no tangble product ran by crooks spending you money to live there lavished life style. DOOPED by a bogus non random card generating saposed poker site designed to reel you in like the fish they trained you to be. go to a card room or casino and play cards like it should be played. insted of hiding behing a computer screen making bad calls like , playing poker like its a slot machine, knowing how full tilt puts out bad beats like candy . its about time thats all i can say !!!!!!!!
lol was going to withdraw my funds a couple of hours before it went down, but i was on a roll. Almost funny….lets hope it gets up again otherwhise, by dulars. RIP.
All our money is safe according to the AGCC, got an email today, I think ft will be up and running again next week!
cant say that i am suprised that a bunch of people running a GAMBELING site have been crooked with our money what i am suprised about is that they allowed them to advertise on TV, do they not have laws that govern cons from being advertised? the main reason i trusted this site was because of the adds and asumed it was all taken care of. what a let down.
I sure miss the Full Tilt Poker site. I loved playing for play money. Played every day.
I have 1K waiting to be cashed out on Moneybookers for 2 weeks now. I am Canadian so it is not just US players not getting cashouts.
I hope we all get our $.
what about our play chips are we losing them ? Please reopen i’m bored…..lol
THIS IS BULLs**t! YOU ALLOWED ONLINE GAMBLING TO OPERATE IN THE 1ST PLACE. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT SHUTTING DOWN FULLTILT WILL NEVER RESOLVE THIS ISSUE IT WILL MAKE THEIR CUSTOMERS AGRY!!! LETS DO THE BOYCOT!
SHUTTING DOWN FULLTILTPOKER WAS NEVER A GOOD REASON, OH COME ON AMERICA. YOUR EXPERIECING ECONOMIC CRISIS. WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU STILL CONTINUES TO DO SUCH THING. MANY PEOPLE WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS. ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN FULLTILT!
Wow
I can’t believe what I am reading
Anyone who is shocked that this has happened is nothing short of a complete fool
Sending your money to a company based in an offshore location that has been fighting with the US gov’t for years ??????
You should be ashamed of yourselves
Online poker is suspect at best, most likely a complete
scam
Everyone whines and complains about the disporportionate number of ” bad beats ” etc then BOOM they shove more money into their account and go at it again
If you want to play poker, go to a legitimate casino
There you can have some faith that the game is legit and who knows, you may actually learn how to play poker properly
I am ceratin that most FTP players will lose some or all their funds that they thought actually existed in their fictional accounts at what is being shown to be a scam of a company
Too bad but try to learn something from it
Trust but verify
Works out here in the real world
If it smells like sh** it probably is
Pick yourself up and go out and play some real poker
I dont have any cash in ft as i only played freerolls and play chips but i sure hope every1 gets their cash ( i doubt u will though ) open up the play chip games plzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Fittetryner hele styre i ft.Kødde med folks penger på denne måten skulle betales med et skudd i panna.Satt inn penger dagen før de stenkte siden. HELVETES PAKK
do u think they might send out my t-shirt for busting a pro
What an absolute sham. I’ve been suspicious of FTP for several months now but just kept telling myself I’d pull out soon. All those guys associated with the site – Hanson, Ivey, Ferguson, et al – better lay low. You just lost yourselves a huge fan base and no doubt you’ll be getting a whole world of abuse for some time to come.
MY money !!! please
FTP hold money of mine. I want it I need it I have done nothing wrong, why should I have to lose apron 7% of my money. Is the aldrernay commission or the us government going to make up my shortfall? I think not so who do we sue.. has anyone started a grope to represent the customers in this?
I made withdrawal 23 June 2011. FT send me an email 24 June that my money transfer approved. I send to my bank with a bank transfer (10-15 business days according the email). I will take my money or not?
There’s not much I can say that has not already been said. I’m extremely dissapointed about the whole thing and only had $634 in my account. God only knows what all you players are feeling that had thousands in your accounts.
bunch of bullchit should of known,
i have 42 k in the bank account what a load of s**t if i dont get my money im gonna sue the owners for more this is complete bulls**t!!!!!!!!
i have 24 dollars in there this sucks i was having a good time with my mates if i dont get the money ill suck!!!
I have quite a bit of money in my account too. I really hope we get it back.
I can’t believe that they can do this to be honest.
The fact that i trusted them with my money despite years of money laundering.
I have one question: why the f**k can’t we get our money back!?
They don’t own the money in our accounts! i had 2000 grand in my account other players have thousands more.
Bunch of scam artists!
They sent a check to me like 1 month ago, when i receive it will be all good to i discount the check or will i have problems??
Really sucks fo me my husband has 625,000 on full tilt. They are going to ROB everyone while Raay Bitar and Phil ivey are on the french riveria in a chartered yacht!!!
GET F T P BACK ON IT IS A GOOD SITE:)))))))))))
HURRY UP AND GET BACK ON MAN F T P IS THE BEST:)))))
i have 2 millions in my account and now i haave no other job..
i wish it will BACK AS soon it is very disappointed
give us our money back you thiving bastards
what! i had 5million in play chips. can i get them back please? sux!
I have a problem with connection .I am trying to connect on Full tilt for 10 days.I cant login .I would like to know whats the problem. Thanks
Wow…..some REAL idiots. “Where’s my 5 million in play chips?” “I had 24 dollars on there and it’ll suck not to get it back!!” REally? 24 dollars? If 24 bucks is going to break you, you shouldn’t have been gambling in the first place. Online, at a casino or on a lottery ticket. Nothing.
And as far as the play chips…..just shut up. Plain and simple. Some people lost their livelihoods. Thousands. Tens of thousands. Even hundreds of thousands. REAL money. So pardon me if there’s no one starting up a million man march to get your millions in PLAY CHIPS back……..
OMG to this post “I have a problem with connection .I am trying to connect on Full tilt for 10 days.I cant login .I would like to know whats the problem. Thanks” I know your not that STUPID…
funny how everyone complains about thier money (most often just a something between like $50~$5000, aka not much) but what i realy regret is that one of the greatest poker rooms is down.
i’d even play FTP again with a fresh bankroll, if the same players would join and the room would stay the same.
saknar min rake
Brandon don’t be a twat, $24 is $24 why should some thief mascarading as a business take anyones money.. however, the play chips comment I fully agree with!
I fell bad for all those that had money in thier accounts when this happened. I played on this site long enough to know there was nothing ligit about it……It really was impossiable to think that I was just that unlucky.They stole my money during game play, and now ( I really hope not but know better) think they have stolen all of your money for good. Good luck to all of you.
I had al little amount of money but with that amount of players it mustbe a lot more than 150mil buck from all over the world. Bad luck but I hope the crooks will be taken out.
But I was expecting something like this because of the booming numbers of players over the last 2 years.
Gambled and lost.
glad2b you dont know nothing!!!!! your clueless
Bring back the play money site…I miss it. It was a great pass time!
Bring back play money…..WTF????
Go and have sex with yourself…….I’ve lost REAL money
I deposited $20 the day before it shut down. Whats hurts the most is , I then played two 9 player games and won one and finished 2 in the other and got all excited ..Then they shut down…..$55 in my account.
I hate the slow poker games on other poker sites. I loved the Omaha HiLo rush Poker for chips(No Money) It taught me how to play Omaha and I practiced before I went to the Seminole Casino in Tampa, where I play with “real Money”
What happened on the 26th????????????
What happened in court on the 26th?
I never played for real money but was on there playing tournaments very regularly.I miss that and the fact that I could chat with everyone around the world. It was an enjoyable pass of time. I really feel for those who have invested money and have yet to see if they get it back and I wish you all good luck.
Can anyone reccomend another site where you can play happy free poker?
i think what ever you deposited on the site from day1 should be paid back to you!!
I know lets all prop bet with Phill Ivey, on weather or not FullTilt survives or goes bust. He likes the biggest action, lets give him the mother of all prop bets. At the same time lets cover the bet with Phil Helmouth and give him 5% Juice.
Someone needs to look @ the formatting of this page, it keeps moving further left with each comment……lol
BANKRUPT IS BANKRUPT . ANYONE WHO PLAYS REAL MONEY IS TAKING A CHANCE .JUST LIKE STOCKS , BOND ETC. YA WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME .BE WISER NEXT TIME AND WITHDRAW YOUR EARNINGS SO YOU EARN THE INTEREST NOT A STRANGER .
I never been so phucken pissed in my life I only depoisted my money 3 hours later I get robed. …. … I,m going after them U PPL CAN JOIN ME GONNA DROP A BOMB ON THERE heads …….
FullTilt = Ponzi Scheme
There is no money
Why is the FullTilt website working but you cannot log on with their gaming software. They should shut down completely!!!! or come back on
feel for all u guys with hundreds of thousands in their account. i only have 3 grand in there and am a little dissappointed.bunch of crap thats goin on and hope they get what they deserve for stealing everyones money.
why the hell did they shut down the chip players too, if they are not playing with real money, can’t see the point in that.
Hope you all get your money back.
give me my money
This Suck im out of 10 dollars can’t buy a gallon of milk have to suck moms tits 4 milk.
Full tilt owns noobiestars, come back online pl0x, And let me get my full tilt sweater for my owning points! {ftp 4 the nabs}
poker player for 10 years….sampled play money format and noticed the craziest bad beats you can imagine, quads over full houses, straight flush over nut flushes, etc, etc….decided driving one hour every friday to local casino was safer gamble than depositing one cent into offshore online poker site run by known degenerate gamblers! What a prediction? Here’s another prediction, “You guys will NOT get your money” and “Howard Lederer aka The Professor (lol), Ivey, etc, will do some 15 years in the fed pen if they dare show their faces in the USA” My bet is they are not prepared to do the time and have enough money to live away from the country that trained them to be the best scam artists in the world!!!! AMEN, and good luck to all, u can hope, thats all you’ll get!!!!
It is really nice that they use young children, and charities, on television, as an excuse to steal everyone’s money as well!
gimme my $15,000 u ****!!!!
you faking FTP
full tilt has got my money and i would like it back.they r a f**king joke.i hope the owners never wake up from there sleep dirty rotten thieving bastrds.888 poker is good try that
i have got 100k in my account a those fu***** bars***** better give it back
The corrupt fkers need executing !
Is there any news yet with fulltilt people. I had $400 in my account but I am seeing people with $100.000 in there account I really hope you all get your money back