Stars officially completes Tilt deal
Site will relaunch "no later than" 6 November.
PokerStars has made the US$225m payment to the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) required to complete its acquisition of Full Tilt Poker assets, spokesman Lee Jones has confirmed.
A post from the company’s head of home games, published on the Two Plus Two forums this afternoon, explained that: “90 days from today is November 6th…Full Tilt Poker will be live no later than that day.”
Upon settling with the DoJ last week, PokerStars announced its intention to relaunch Full Tilt as a separate business to its main offering, and that it would be launched in a selection of dot.com markets but not Belgium, Denmark, France, Estonia, Italy or Spain – where PokerStars currently holds dot.country licences.
Full Tilt poker room manager Shyam Markus, who previously acted as Full Tilt’s forum presence under the alias ‘FTPDoug’, has begun answering a number of player queries concerning player bonuses, loyalty points and the withdrawal of player funds held on FTP. A full management team for Full Tilt Poker is yet to be appointed.
The planned relaunch date for the site, described by Markus as “Probably… late October or early November,” may coincide with the final table of this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, scheduled for 28 October.