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The Poker Grapevine – AGCC Full Tilt License Hearing
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2012-04-23 09:57
Having Full Tilt Poker’s operating license reinstated by the end of the month may have been a bit of wishful thinking on the part of Groupe Bernard Tapie, but that doesn’t mean representatives of the French conglomerate are not hard at work trying to achieve just that. Actual results of all that hard work are beginning to surface too: a few days ago, the AGCC set a public hearing for May 3, regarding the Category 2 license application of Orinic Ltd. The company already possesses a Category 1, non-operating license, which was suspended last year for 6 months. If the Category 2 license is granted to Orinic Ltd, Full Tilt Poker will be able to resume operation.
All signs do indeed seem to point to the fact that the deal between Full Tilt Poker and GBT gets closer to completion every day – certainly stellar news for those
online poker players who have monies stuck at the site.
In other news: poker icon Mike Sexton has apparently had enough of the motley and often simply inappropriate cavalcade of attires that poker players bring to the green felt in various live events. Sexton fired up a post in his blog last week decrying the lack of professionalism shown by many of the poker players. Sexton said he was disgusted with players showing up in t-shirts, hoodies and sweat-pants and that instituting a dress code for the televised events should be well in order.
Sexton wasn’t the first one to bring up the issue of the poker dress-code. Matt Glantz has come forth with a similar post a while ago, singling out the new generation of online-to-live poker pros whose often ill-inspired behavior casts a bad light on the entire poker community and ultimately on the game itself.
In still other news: Bodog have apparently let 70 of their employees go as part of a restructuring effort meant to retain the competitive edge of the company in the UK.
