Overlooked in all of the finality of PokerStars‘ acquisition of Full Tilt Poker yesterday was that the U.S. government will soon control the assets to UltimateBet/Absolute Poker. States the Government: The motion also requests that…
Top Poker Sites: Largest Rooms Post Black-Friday
Today is the five month mark since Why’s-It-Gotta-Be-Black Friday. Crazy–just five months ago, even with a myriad of payment processing issues– Full Tilt Poker and UltimateBet were unbelievably profitable entities. Now, gone. With that in…
AP/UB Not Filing Bankruptcy, Will “Continue to Operate” Outside U.S.
Interesting press release just dropped from AP/UB. In it, the company announced its plans to structure and focus its business efforts outside of the U.S. It all addresses rumors about the company filing bankruptcy, which…
Ub Ownership Transfer Complete: Excapsa Out, Blanca In
Finalizing a deal in the works for months, Blanca Games (who have to be happier than Andrew in the above vid today) appears to have completed its deal with former UltimateBet owners Excapsa Software. From…
Phil Hellmuth Leaving Ub?
More and more chatter is circulating the so-called “Internet” about whether or not Phil Hellmuth is leaving Ub. Hellmuth has been spotted recently at a number of events (and in his own Tweets) not wearing…