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The Poker Grapevine – French Full Tilters to be Repaid Sooner
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2012-10-28 14:11
When
PokerStars acquired Full Tilt Poker, it was a part of the deal struck with the US DoJ that they would repay Full Tilt players the monies stuck in their accounts after Black Friday. While the site has repeatedly said that it would repay its players after the November 6 re-launch of the operation, it now looks like the Full Tilt fairy may come sooner for French players. According to some sources, French players may begin withdrawing their Full Tilt monies as early as next week.
According to ARJEL, a French
online poker regulator, the reimbursement process will start on November 2.
ARJEL was instrumental in the setting up of the repayment process for French players: they were the ones who created the repayment procedure through which French players would be fully reimbursed. According to ARJEL, the above said procedure will be implemented by November 2. The regulator has also issued a statement about a month ago that PokerStars have set up a trust fund in order to make sure that French players would be repaid, so all the pieces for a November 2 repayment seem to have slid into place.
French players will be able to transfer their Full Tilt funds to their locally licensed PokerStars platform. Once there, they can make withdrawals or they can take the money back to the tables.
In other news: in anticipation of the re-launch of Full Tilt poker, new Full Tilt TV ads hit the airwaves, bringing the familiarly sleek black and white images that are probably forever burnt into every poker player’s memory, right back to the TV screen. The ads have always worked, therefore the new management of the operation saw no reason to alter them in any fundamental way.
